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Buildings or inclosures entered to repair pipes, &c. paying damages,
as ascertained by 2 persons, 1 or. each side, or by an umpire,
refuling entrance 205.
to workhouse and informer.
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XIX. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any building or enclosure of ground hath been made in the said city of Cork, the suburbs or liberties thereof, where pipes or mains have been laid, or aqueducts erected, or hereafter shall be laid or erected, for supplying the said city or the suburbs thereof with water, that it shall and lawful for the mayor, sheriffs, and commonalty, or the said committee, or any one or more of the said committee, with workmen, from time to time when such mains, pipes, or aqueducts shall be out of order, to enter into and upon such buildings and enclosures, or into any ground through which such mains, pipes, or aqueducts shall be laid or erected, in order to repair the same, paying all such damages as the owner or owners shall suffer thereby, to be ascertained in a summary way by two persons, one to be appointed by the said mayor, sheriffs, and commonalty, or by the said committee, or the majority of the said committee, and the other of the said two persons to be appointed by such owner or owners; and in case such two persons shall not agree, then such damages to be ascertained by a third person, to be nominated as umpire by the said two persons so to be appointed as aforesaid; and in case the owner or owners of such buildings, inclosures, or ground shall refuse permission for entering in the same to repair the said mains, pipes, aqueducts aforesaid, in manner aforesaid, that then and for every such refusal, such owner or owners shall forfeit the sum of twenty shillings, to be recovered in the summary way aforesaid before the mayor of the said city, or any of the aldermen of the ward of the same, by the first person who shall sue for the same; one moiety of the said forfeiture 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 the use of the informer, or first person that shall sue for the same.
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