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Penalty for a branch pipe without authority 101. by civil bill to workhouse and informer.
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XVIII. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person shall put in a branch pipe into any of the mains or pipes laid for the conveyance of water in any of the streets, lanes, or passages in the said city and suburbs thereof, or shall have a branch pipe conveyed into or near any dwelling house or outhouse in the said city or the suburbs thereof, from the branch pipe of any other person in the said city or the suburbs thereof, without the consent and authority of the said mayor, sheriffs, and commonalty of the said city, or of such committee as aforesaid, in order that such person may be supplied with pipe water without paying for the same, that then and in such case every person so offending, shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of ten pounds, to be recovered by civil bill before the judges of assize at the general assizes to be held for the county of the said city by the first person, who shall sue for the same; one moiety of the said forfeiture of ten pounds to go to the governors of the workhouse of the said city for the use of the said workhouse, and the other moiety thereof to go to use of the informer, or person first suing for the same.
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