| 1808.
CHAP. 79. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
and the payments thereof, as may be at any time so dug, opened
or taken up. |
May establish
reservoirs & public
fountains, &c. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the corporation
shall have full
power and authority to establish reservoirs and public fountains
in such parts of the streets an squares of the said city as they
may think proper, and to grant to all persons whomsoever, and to
all bodies politic and corporate, the privilege of using the said water
so to be introduced, in such manner, and on such terms and
conditions, and in such quantities, respectively, as they shall think
fit; and the said waters, so to be introduced, together with all reservoirs,
canals, tunnels, engines, buildings and machines, whatsoever,
to be by them made and used for the purpose of introducing,
raising and distributing, the said water, to hold to them, their
successors and grantees, for ever, as their sole and exclusive property. |
Corporation of
Baltimore permitted
to insert fire-plugs,
&c. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the corporation
aforesaid shall
insert, or grant permission to the corporation of Baltimore to insert,
and repair at the expense of the city, such a number of fire-plugs
as to them shall appear necessary, into the pipes used to convey
the water through the streets thereof, to be used only in case of
fire, but free from any charge for a supply of water. |
President and directors
to demand
subscriptions in
instalments, &c.
Provisos. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may
be lawful for
the said president and directors to call and demand from the said
subscribers respectively, all such sums of money by them subscribed,
in instalments, not exceeding ten dollars each, under pain of forfeiture
of their shares, and of all previous payments thereon, to
the said president, directors and company; Provided, that no such
demand shall be made without thirty days previous notice being
given in the different news-papers of the city of Baltimore; And
provided also, that not more than one such payment shall be called
for or required in any term of four months. |
Suits for injury
done to works to
be deemed transitory. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any suit, action
or complaint,
by the said corporation, against any person or persons whomsoever,
on account of, or grounded on, a trespass or injury done to
the said works, or any tunnels, conduits, canals, water-courses,
mound, plug, cock, reservoir, dyke, engine, machine or thing, appertaining
to the same, shall in every instance be held and deemed
as transitory in its nature, and may be brought, sustained and
tried, in any court in this state, having jurisdiction in such like
cases. |
Penalty for polluting
the water, &c. |
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person
shall wilfully
pollute the said water, between the pumping house of the said
company and the mill on Jones's Falls, now owned and occupied by
John Stricker and William Patterson, by throwing any dead animals,
or other impure substances, into the same, or by swimming,
bathing or washing themselves, or by washing clothes or the skins
of any dead animals or other impure things therein, or by erecting
any necessary or other nuisance so near the said water as to pollute
the same, the person or persons so offending shall forfeit and
pay to the said company a sum not exceeding twenty dollars for
every such offence, to be recovered by warrant, before any magistrate
of the county or city of Baltimore, and shall be obliged to
remove the same nuisance, or forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars |
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