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Fire Engines may be provided and Firemen employed by the Commissioners.
Fire Police permitted to go beyond the Limits of the Town in certain Cases.
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LXXIII. The Commissioners may provide such Engines for extinguishing Fire, and such Appurtenances for such Engines, and such Fire Escapes and other Implements for Safety or Use, in case of Fire, and keep or hire such Horses for drawing such Engines as they think fit, and employ a proper Number of Persons to act as Firemen, and make such Rules for their Regulation as they think proper, and give such Firemen and other Persons such Salaries and such Rewards for their Exertions in Cases of Fire as they think fit; and the Commissioners may send such Engines, and the said Firemen, beyond the Boundaries of the Town, for extinguishing Fire in the Neighbourhood of the Town, and the Owner of the Premises shall in such Case defray the actual Expense which may be thereby incurred, and shall also pay to the Commissioners a reasonable Charge for the Use of such Engines, and for the Attendance of such Firemen; and the Amount of the said Expenses and Charges, 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 the Justices at Petty Sessions, whose Decision shall be final; and the Amount of the said Expenses and Charges shall be recovered by the Commissioners as Damages.
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