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Penalties for injury or damage, &c. to works, &c. made under this Act.
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63. If any person or persons shall wilfully injure, damage, or destroy, any watch-house, or watch-box, or any lamp, lamp iron, or lamp post, or any well, pipe, spring, pump, watercourse, fire plug, sewer, drain, or fire-engine, or shall wantonly extinguish any lamp or lamps, or shall tear up the pavement or flagway in any street, square, lane, or passage, within any city, town corporate, borough, market town, or other town, or the suburbs or liberties thereof, in which this Act shall be carried into execution, or shall in any other manner wilfully damage, injure, or destroy, any article or material, matter, or thing, employed for effectuating the purposes of this Act, or any work which any commissioners for the execution of this Act may undertake for such purposes, or any of them, it shall and may be lawful for any person or persons to apprehend and detain any and every such offender, until such offender can be carried before any justice of the peace; and every person so offending, being convicted of such offence before such justice, shall for the first offence forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds, and for the second offence a sum not exceeding ten pounds, and for the third and every subsequent offence a sum not exceeding fifteen pounds; provided that the levying and such penalty shall be no bar to any action at the suit of the said commissioners.
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