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Commissioners may send engines and firemen beyond the limits of the special Act.
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33. The commissioners may send such engines, with their appurtenances, and the said firemen, beyond the limits of the special Act, for extinugishing fire in the neighbourhood of the said limits; and the owner of the lands or buildings where such fire shall have happened shall in such case defray the actual expence which may be thereby incurred, and shall also pay to the commissioners a reasonable charge for the use of such engines with their appurtenances, and for the attendance of such firemen; and in case of any difference between the commissioners and the owner of the said lands or buildings, the amount of the said expences and charge, as well as the propriety of sending the said engines and firemen as aforesaid for extinguishing such fire, (if the propriety thereof be disputed,) shall be determined by two justices, whose decision shall be final; and the amount of the said expences and charge shall be recovered by the commissioners as damages.
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