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payment thereof, to report the same to the Corporation Attorney, who shall recover the amount to be paid, with ten dollars as penalty, from the owner or owners, lessee or lessees, occupant or oceupants, of any such house or other building, in front of which the expense was incurred, in any court having jurisdiction thereof, in the name of the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the city of New York.

Penalties on § 19. It shall be the duty of the Corporation Attorney, sidewalks. in returning to the Comptroller an account of moneys re

covered in such suits, to specify that the same were recovered "for penalties on sidewalks," and it shall be the duty of the Comptroller to credit the amount thus paid to the fund appropriated as aforesaid.

CHAPTER XVI.

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§ 1. All sewers or drains in any of the streets, avenues, General cogand public places in the city of New York, shall be in Sewers charge of the Croton Aqueduct Board, whose duty it shall be to keep the same in good order and condition, to cause such repairs to be made to them, and to the receiving basins, culverts, openings, or any part connected therewith, as may, from time to time, become necessary, and to cause the same to be well and sufficiently cleansed, and kept free from obstructions.

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§ 2. The manner of piercing or opening into any of said Piercing or sewers or drains shall be prescribed by said Board, which ers or Drains shall also determine the form, size and material of which all connections made therewith shall be composed, and shall have authority to grant permission to make lateral connections with said sewers.

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§ 3. The Croton Aqueduct Board shall have authority Construction to grant permission to persons to construct at their own Drains by inexpense, sewers or drains, or to lay pipes, to connect with any sewers or drains built in any of the streets or avenues of the city, which they may deem proper and judicious, on being furnished by the applicants with the written consent of a majority of the owners of property of the street or avenue in front of which said sewer, drain or pipe is to pass: such permission to be conditioned, that the persons applying therefor shall comply with the ordinances of the Corporation in relation to excavating the streets, be responsible for damages or injuries caused to persons, animals or property, by reason of any neglect or carelessness

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connected with the work permitted; that no claim be made by them, or their successors in interest, if the same be taken up by authority of the Corporation; nor exemption from assessment for building sewers or drains in the vicinity of their property.

§ 4. No connection shall be made with any sewer or and Drains. drain, without the written permission of the Croton Aqueduct Board; and any connection or opening made into any sewer or drain without such permission, or in a manner different from the mode prescribed for such opening by said Board, shall subject the person making the same, and the owner of the premises directing it, respectively, to a penalty of fifty dollars.

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§ 5. All permissions given by the said Board, to connect with sewers and drains, and all sewers, drains or pipes constructed and laid by their permission, to connect with any sewers or drains in any of the streets or avenues of the city, shall be upon the express condition that the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of this city may at any time revoke and annul the same; and the persons making such connections, or their successors in interest, shall have no right to demand or claim any damages in consequence of such permission being revoked and annulled.

§ 6. All openings into any streets or drains for the purpose of making connection therewith from any house, cellar, vault, yard or other premises, shall be made by persons to be licensed by the Croton Aqueduct Board, in writing, to perform such work; and the said persons before being so licensed, shall execute a bond to the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the city of New York, in a sufficient penal sum, with surety, conditioned that they will carefully make the openings into any sewers or drains in the manner prescribed by said Board without injuring

them; leave no obstructions of any description whatever in them, and properly close up the sewer or drain around the connection made by them, and make no opening into the arch of any sewer or drain; that they will faithfully comply with the ordinances relating to opening and excavating streets, be responsible for any damages or injuries that may occur to persons, animals or property, by reason of any neglect or carelessness on their part, connected with said work, and that they will properly refill and ram the earth, and suitably restore the pavement taken up for excavating, and repave the same, should it settle or become out of order within three months thereafter; and in case any person so licensed shall neglect to repair the pavement aforesaid within twenty-four hours after being notified, the said Board may cause the same to be done, and charge the expense thereof to the person so neglecting.

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§7. Ten dollars shall be paid to the said Board for Foe for conpermission to connect from each house, store or building, aud with any sewer or drain. Each hotel, boarding-house, or public building, covering more ground than twenty-five feet by fifty feet, shall pay proportionally for such additional space of ground covered by each respectively. Manufactories, breweries, distilleries and the like, for permission to connect with sewers or drains, for the purpose of carrying off water or fluid that will not deposit sediment or obstruction, shall pay such sums as shall be fixed and determined by said Board; and any manufacturer, brewer, distiller or the like, permitting any substance to flow into any sewer, drain or receiving basin, which shall form a deposit that tends to fill said sewer, drain or basin, shall be subject to a penalty of fifty dollars for each offense.

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§ 8. The Board aforesaid shall keep a record of all per- Moneys mits granted by them for connections with sewers or permits.

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drains, and shall pay to the treasurer of the city all sums received by them, by virtue of this chapter, and render an account thereof, once in each week, to the Comptroller, verified by oath or affirmation; the sums so paid and accounted for, shall be applied towards repaying the expenditures incurred by the treasury on account of repairs to, and cleaning of, sewers, drains and their appendages; and said Board is authorized to draw upon the Comptroller, from time to time, for such necessary sums as shall be required for the due carrying into effect the provisions of this chapter; and they shall, once in each month, render an account to the Comptroller, with the vouchers thereof, of all moneys expended by them, drawn as aforesaid.

§ 9. All connections with sewers or drains, used for the purpose of carrying off animal refuse from water closets or otherwise, and slops of kitchens, shall have fixtures for a sufficiency of Croton water, to be so applied as to properly carry off such matters, under the penalty of five dollars for each day the same are permitted to remain without such fixtures for supplying said water.

§ 10. Said Board shall have authority to employ a suitable person, at a compensation not to exceed one dollar and fifty cents per day, to examine the condition of all sewers, receiving basins, culverts and their appendages, and fixtures to connections therewith.

§ 11. No butcher's offal, or garbage, dead animals, or and eceiv- obstructions of any kind whatsoever, shall be placed, thrown or deposited in any receiving basin or sewer; and any person so offending or causing any such obstruction or substance to be placed so as to be carried into such basin or sewer, shall be subject to a penalty of ten dollars for each offense; and any person injuring, breaking or removing any portion of any receiving basin, covering-flag, man

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