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Commissioners may break up or open streets, roads, &c. to lay pipes, &c.
Openings to be fenced at night.
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58. It shall and may be lawful for the commissioners for the execution of this Act, in any city, borough, town corporate, market town, or other town, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, so often as to them may seem fit, to break up or open, or by warrant, subscribed by the chairman and clerk of the commissioners for the time being, to authorize any person or persons with whom they shall or may contract to break up or open, any street, square, lane, or passage, within any such city, town corporate, borough, market town, or other town, or the suburbs and liberties thereof as aforesaid, for the purpose of laying pipes or digging wells, or any other of the purposes of this Act, notwithstanding any such street, square, lane, or passage, may form part of a turnpike road or county road: Provided that such commissioners shall and they are hereby required to cause such holes and openings to be properly secured and fenced at night, and lights set up thereby, so as to warn passengers and prevent accidents.
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