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Interpretations in this and the special Act:
Citing the Act.
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3. The following words and expressions in both this and the special Act, and any Act incorporated therewith, shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction; (that is to say,)
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Words importing the singular number shall include the plural number, and words importing the plural number only shall include also the singular number:
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Words importing the masculine gender shall include females:
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The word “person” shall include a corporation, whether aggregate or sole:
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The word “lands” shall include messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, or heritages, of any tenure:
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The word “streams” shall include springs, brooks, rivers, and other running waters:
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The word “street” shall include any square, court, or alley, highway, lane, road, thoroughfare, or public passage or place, within the limits of the special Act:
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The expression “the waterworks” shall mean the waterworks, and the works connected therewith, by the special Act anthorised to be constructed:
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The expression “water rate” shall include any rent, reward, or payment to be made to the undertakers for a supply of water:
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The word “month” shall mean calendar month:
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The expression “superior courts,” where the matter submitted to the cognizance of the of the court arises in England or Ireland, shall mean her Majesty’s superior courts of record at Westminster or Dublin, as the case may require, . . . and where such matter arises in Scotland, it shall mean the Court of Session:
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The word “oath” shall include affirmation in the case of Quakers, and any declaration lawfully substituted for an oath in the case of any other persons allowed by law to make a declaration instead of taking an oath:
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The word “county” shall include riding or other division of a county having a separate commission of the peace; and in Scotland any division of a county having a separate sheriff; and it shall also include county of a city or county of a town:
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The word “justice” shall mean justice of the peace acting for the place where the matter requiring the cognizance of any such justice arises; and if such matter arise in respect of lands or streams situated not wholly in one jurisdiction shall mean a justice acting for the county or place where any part of such lands or streams shall be situated; and where any matter is authorized or required to be done by two justices, the expression “two justices” shall be understood to mean two or more justices met and acting together:
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The word “sheriff” shall mean the sheriff depute of the county in Scotland in which the matter submitted to the cognizance of the sheriff arises, and shall include the substitutes of such sheriff depute:
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The expression “quarter sessions” shall mean quarter sessions as defined in the special Act; and if such expression be not there defined it shall mean the court of general or quarter sessions of the peace which shall be held at the place nearest to the waterworks, or the principal office thereof, for the county or place in which the waterworks, or the principal office thereof, is situate, or for some division of such county having a separate commission of the peace:
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The expression “the town commissioners” shall mean the parties defined under that title in the special Act, and where no such parties shall be there defined shall mean the commissioners, trustees, or other parties having the control or management of the streets under any Act for paving or improving the town or district to be supplied with water under the special Act:
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The word “inspector” shall mean an officer appointed under any local Act relating to the town or district supplied with water under the special Act for the purpose of inspecting or superintending works connected with the paving, drainage, or supply of water of such town or district, or an officer appointed under any general Act for executing the like duties with respect to such town or district together with other towns or districts.
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And with respect to citing this Act, or any part thereof, be it enacted as follows:
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