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Dec. Sess.
1815.
Reservoirs &c.
Damaging
improvements
—penalty.
Shall not is-
sue notes &c.
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may be intended to pass after being so diverted; and the said
corporation shall have full power and authority to make a canal
and tunnel or either of them, for the conveyance of the said
water under and along any public highway, or any street or
streets, lane or lanes, alley or alleys, of the county or town of
Cumberland, and to lay a pipe or pipes in such highway, or in
any of the said streets, lanes or alleys, for the purpose of con-
veying and distributing the said water, and the said pipes from
time is time to renew and repair, and for those purposes to dig,
break up and open, at their own expence, all or any part of such
highway, or of such streets and alleys, and of the pavements
and footways thereof, leaving at all times a sufficient passage
way for carriages, horses, and foot passengers, and restoring
forthwith to their former condition all such highways, or all
such of the said streets, lanes and alleys, pavements and foot-
ways, as shall from time to lime, and at any time be so dug
opened or taken up.
14. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said corporation
shall have full power and authority to establish reservoirs and
public fountains in such parts of the streets and squares of the
said own as they may think proper; and to grant to all per-
sons 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 quanti-
ties respectively, as they shall think fit; and the said water so
to be introduced, together with all the reservoirs, pipes,
canals and tunnels, engines, buildings, and machines whatsoe-
ver, to be by them made and used for the purpose of introduc-
ing, raising, and distributing the said water, to hold to them,
their successors and grantees, as their sole and exclusive proper-
ty.
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person or per-
sons shall wilfully do, or cause to be done, any act whatsoever
whereby the said works, or any pipe, conduit, canal, water
course, mound, plug, cock, reservoir, dyke, or any engine,
machine or structure, or any matter or thing appertaining to
the same, shall be stopped, obstructed, impaired, weakened or
injured, or wilfully pollute the said water by the throwing any
dead animals, or other impure substance, into the same, or by
swimming, bathing, or washing therein, the person or persons
so offending shall forfeit and pay to the said company treble
the amount of the damages sustained by means of such offence
or injury, to be recovered by such company with costs of suit,
by action of debt, or action on the case, in any court of judica-
ture of this state, or by warrant before any magistrate thereof;
which action shall in every instance be considered as transitory
in its nature, and shall and may be triable in any county in this
state.
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall not be lawful
for the said corporation to enter into any negotiations on bills
or notes, nor to deal in exchange, discount, or other commerci-
al or banking operations, and dividends of the profits of the
stock shall be annually made, reserving only, at the discretion
of the directors, such proportion as they, or a majority of
stockholders shall deem sufficient for maintaining and support-
ing the works necessary to promote or obtain the objects of
this incorporation; and if the said corporation shall not carry
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