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The branch to be cut off if the yearly rent for the water be not paid;
hindering the person authorized to cut off said branch, penalty 10l.
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LXI. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it any person or persons to whose house or houses in the city of Cork aforesaid, any branch, pipe, or pipes, shall from time to time be laid for the purpose of conveying water from any main pipe or pipes to such house or houses, shall neglect or refuse to pay the usual or accustomed yearly rent for such water, that then and in such case it shall and may be lawful to and for the trustees aforesaid, or any five of them, or any person or persons by them for that purpose authorized from time to time, to cut off any such branch, pipe or pipes conveying water to such house or houses aforesaid, and if any person or persons shall obstruct, hinder, and prevent the person or persons so authorized to cut off such branch, pipe or pipes, every such person or persons so offending, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay the sum of ten pounds sterling, to be recovered and applied in such manner as the penalty of ten pounds in the said act of the first of his present Majesty mentioned, is in and by said act directed to be recovered and applied.
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