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Penalty for damaging water pipes.
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12. If any person or persons shall wilfully destroy or injure any part of any pipe, main, or watercourse through which water shall be conveyed to any prison in Ireland, or to any of the yards or buildings thereto belonging, so as to prevent the water from regularly and fully flowing to the same, or shall insert any cock or pipe into any part of such main, or make any cut to divert the water thereof to any other purpose, and shall upon indictment be convicted thereof, he or they shall be committed to the county gaol, and shall therein remain in close confinement for one year, or until he or they shall pay a sum of fifty pounds, one half thereof to the treasurer of the county, to be by him placed to the credit of the county, and the other half thereof to the person or persons who shall discover and cause the said offender or offenders to be convicted.
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