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Giving a way pipe water, or permitting it, 205. to workhouse and informer.
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XVII. Whereas a considerable expence hath been incurred in supplying of the city of Cork and the suburbs thereof with water: be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if the owner or possessor of any pipe or branch of any pipe in the said city or liberties thereof, rented or to be rented from the mayor, sheriffs, and commonalty of the said city, or from the committee deputed or to be deputed by them, shall give away pipe water, or permit or suffer any person to give or carry away pipe water from such pipe or branch of any pipe, such person so offending shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of twenty shillings, to be recovered in the summary way aforesaid, before the said mayor or any of the aldermen of the ward of the said city, by the first person, that shall sue for the same, one moiety thereof to go to the governors of the workhouse, and the other moiety thereof to go to the informer.
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