for or on account of the Croton Aqueduct Works, which notice shall be published at least one week in the papers designated by the Corporation. No alternative or indefinite condition or limitation as to price in a proposal shall be received or acted on; nor shall more than one proposition from any one person for the same contract be received. All the propositions, when more than one is offered, from the same person, for the same object, shall be rejected.

Contractors.

§ 44. Every person who shall enter into any contract Security of for work to be done on the Croton Aqueduct Works, shall give satisfactory security for the faithful performance of his contract according to its terms; and if any person shall neglect or refuse to perform his contract, he shall be excluded from any interest in any future contract in relation to the Croton Aqueduct Works.

ance.

§ 45. No extra allowance over and above the contract Extra allowprice shall be made to any contractor, unless such extra allowance be directed by the Common Council.

supplying

§ 46. All persons contracting for a supply of water, Manner of shall pay the cost of the materials and labor used and ex- Water, &. pended on the streets, necessary to make the connection with the conduit pipes, or pay such annual interest thereon as required by the rules and regulations of the Croton Aqueduct Board. No street shall be opened, nor pipes bored, or connection made, unless under the direc tion of the Croton Aqueduct Board, under the penalty of fifty dollars for each offense.

847. All persons are forbid to open any street pave- Ibid. ment and bore any water pipe for the purpose of conducting the water into any dwelling or other edifice, or any - other use, under the penalty of fifty dollars for each

Water rents, how payable

Rents, unpaid

Rents, how applied.

Sprinkling the Streets

Ibid.

Ibid.

offense, unless with the written permission of the President of the Croton Aqueduct Board.

§ 49. All rents for the use of the water shall be paid in advance, at the time of applying for the water, and before any permit is issued; to be calculated up to the first day of May succeeding; and all rents shall continue to be collected in advance on the first day of May annually, so long as the contract exists; and no contract for the supply of the water shall be binding for a longer period than until the second succeeding first day of May after such contract is entered into.

$ 49. The supply of water shall be cut off in all cases where the rent is behind, and unpaid, ten days.

50. All rents and other emoluments which may accrue from the use and application of the water, shall, in the first instance, be applied to meet the current expenses and repairs of the Croton Aqueduct Works, next, to the payment of the interest on the Water Stock, and lastly, to the redemption of said stock.

§ 51. The Croton Aqueduct Board shall continue to grant licenses to such persons as it may deem proper, and who will comply with the conditions of this ordinance, for permission to use Croton water from such of the public hydrants as may be designated by said Board, for the purpose of sprinkling the public streets of the city.

$52. Every person who shall thus obtain a license, shall pay to the Croton Aqueduct Board at the rate of one and a half cents for every hundred gallons that shall be respectively used by them for such purpose; the payments to be made monthly under oath.

$53. The sprinklers used by every such person shall conform, in every respect, to a pattern kept in the office

of the Croton Aqueduct Board, which shall be in form. and shape as follows, that is to say: A tin cylinder six feet in length, curved, so as to give a versed sine of seven inches; of a diameter not to exceed two and one-half inches at the inlet, tapering thence at each end to a diameter of not more than two inches; the four centre sheets or feet of which shall each be pierced with three rows of holes, and the end feet or sheets each with four rows; said holes to be in parallel rows, and at least one-half of an inch apart, and of a size not to exceed number sixteen wire. The first or bottom row of holes shall be at right angles to the inlet, and the sprinkler, when in use, shall be so hung as to throw the water directly on the street; the ends of the cylinder shall be without holes.

Streets.

§ 54. Every cart used for sprinkling streets, under the Sprinkling of provisions of this ordinance, shall have painted on each side of the cask, and exposed to public view, in black letters of not less than two inches in length, and on a white ground, the name and residence of the person under whose license the work is performed.

§ 55. Any person licensed to use Croton water for the Ibid. purpose of sprinkling the streets as aforesaid, who shall violate the provisions of this ordinance, shall, in the discretion of the Croton Aqueduct Board, have his license revoked.

works, &c.

56. If any person shall bathe, go into the Croton Injuring the water at either of the reservoirs or any part of the Croton Aqueduct, or shall throw any stones, chips or dirt, or any other material, substance or thing whatever, into the reservoirs or into the water, or gate-houses, or into the ventilators or aqueduct, or fountain basins, or shall in any manner injure or disfigure any part of the Croton

Trespassos,

&c.

Aqueduct Works, he shall be subject to a fine not to exceed fifty dollars, to be imposed by any Police Justice or any magistrate, either on his view, or in a summary manner. And in default of payment of any fine so imposed, such Police Justice, or magistrate, shall commit such offender to the city prison for a period not to exceed thirty days, unless such fine is sooner paid.

57. In case any person shall tresspass on any part of the embankment of the Croton Aqueduct reservoirs, or go or remain on the same, without permission of the proper persons having charge of the same; or in case any person does not comply with the regulations of the Croton Aqueduct Board, as to the times they shall leave the embankments of said reservoirs, or the grounds or buildings attached to said reservoirs, that then and in that case such person shall be subject to a fine of twenty-five dollars, to be levied and collected in the manner prescribed in the last section; and in default of payment, imprisonment, as in like manner, not to exceed twenty days, in the city prison.

Hydrant'. § 58. No person or persons, except the Mayor, Aldermen and Councilmen of the respective districts shall, without previous permission in writing from the Croton Aqueduct Board, unscrew or open any hydrant belonging or attached to the Croton Aqueduct Works, erected for the extinguishment of fires, except in cases of fires in the neighborhood; nor shall leave said fire hydrant open for a longer time than shall be limited in said permission; nor shall use the water for other purposes than may be mentioned in said permission; under the penalty of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars for each offense, in the discretion of the magistrate before whom the complaint shall be made.

from hydrant

$59.. No person or persons, except such as may be Taking water licensed by the Croton Aqueduct Board, to sell water to shipping, shall take the water from any hydrant erected of to be erected in the city of New York, and attached to the Croton water pipes, for the purpose of selling the said water or offering it for sale, under the penalty of twentyfive dollars.

§ 60. The Water Purveyor is instructed to cause the Hydrants. hydrants to be kept closed, and report all violations of the law to the Corporation Attorney.

$61. The Croton Aqueduct Board shall at all times, Street Cleanwhen the general supply of water is not thereby endangered, permit the City Inspector to order the hydrants to be used for cleaning the streets under the regulations of said Board.

Streets.

§ 62. No person or persons shall use the Croton water Washing the for washing streets, sidewalks, steps or buildings, from the first day of May to the first day of November following, in each year, after 8 A. M.; and from the first day of November to the first day of May following, after 9 A. M., under the penalty of five dollars for each offense.

Stop Cocks.

§ 63. Any person or persons who shall obstruct the obstructing access to the different stop cocks connected with the water pipes, by placing thereon stone, brick, lumber, dirt, or any other materials, or who shall permit any such materials to be placed thereon by those in his or their employ, shall be subject to the penalty of fifty dollars for each offense, with an additional sum of twenty-five dollars for each day the same shall be continued after notice of removal shall have been served.