hole, vent or any part of any sewer or drain, or obstructing the mouth of any sewer or drain, shall be subject to a penalty of twenty dollars for each offense; nor shall any quantity of marble or other stone, iron, lead, timber, or any other substance, exceeding one ton in weight, be placed or deposited upon any wharf or bulkhead through which any sewer or drain may run; nor upon or over any sewer or drain where the same shall be within three feet of the surface of the street, under the penalty of fifty dollars for each offense, to be recovered of the person or persons causing or permitting the same.

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§ 12. It shall be the duty of the policemen of the several Duties of Powards to be vigilant in the enforcement of the provisions olations, &c. of this chapter, and report any violations thereof to the Corporation Attorney. The captains of the several police districts shall, on observing or being informed of the opening of, or excavating in, any street or avenue, require the person making such opening or excavation, to exhibit to him the authority or permission for such opening; and if none have been given by the proper officer, or if the exhibition thereof be refused, said captain of police shall, without delay, make complaint to the Attorney of the Corporation, and report the same to the Croton Aqueduct Board.

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§ 13. It shall be the duty of every person having charge Duties of of the sweeping and cleaning of the streets in the several ing streets. wards, to see that the gutters are properly scraped out before the water is suffered to flow from any hydrant for the purpose of washing the same, in order that no substance or obstruction be carried into any of the receiving basins; every person violating this section, to be subject to a penalty of five dollars for each offense.

14. In the building of all sewers under ordinances of Connection

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the Common Council, it shall be discretionary with the executive department, under whose direction the same are ordered to be built, to lay so many connection pipes from the sewers to the line of curb stones, as the said department may deem necessary, unless otherwise ordered by the Common Council; the expense thereof to be borne by the owners or occupants of the houses and lots intended to be benefited thereby.

§ 15. Whenever a sewer or culvert is to be constructed, altered, or repaired in any street in the city of New York, in which the gas pipes of either the Manhattan or New York Gaslight companies are laid, it shall be the duty of the contractor or contractors thereof to give notice in writing, of the same to the said companies, or to the one whose pipes are laid in the street about being disturbed by the construction, alteration, or repairing of such sewer or culvert, at least twenty-four hours before breaking ground therefor.

§ 16. It shall be the duty of the said gas companies, or the one whose pipes are about being disturbed by the construction, alteration or repairing of any sewer or culvert, on the receipt of the notice provided for in the preceding section, to remove or otherwise protect and replace the main and service-pipes, lamp-posts, and lamps when necessary, under the direction of the Croton Aqueduct Board, and all expenses or damages incurred or sustained by either of the said companies thereby, unless the same shall have been caused by or through the negligence or carelessness of the contractor or contractors, or neglect of said companies, shall form a portion of the expenses of such sewer or culvert, and shall be assessed and collected in the same manner as the other expenses thereof-provided, however, that the company notified in accordance with the

preceding section shall comply with such notice, by causing the pipes, lamp-posts and lamps to be protected and replaced when necessary, during the progress of the work; and shall also furnish a bill of such expenses or damages, if any, duly certified by the inspector appointed by the Croton Aqueduct Board, to the assessors of said sewer or culvert, within five days after receipt of notice of the completion thereof.

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§ 17. The said inspector, appointed by the Croton Regulations Aqueduct Board, shall, in addition to the usual certificate, with Gas furnish to the said assessors a certificate, stating whether or not such expenses or damages, or any and what part thereof, have been caused by or through the negligence or carelessness of the contractor or contractors of the sewer or culvert, and any such expenses or damages as shall be so certified to have been caused by the negligence or carelessness of the contractor or contractors, shall be charged to him or them, and shall be deducted from the amount to be paid him or them, and shall be paid to the company by whom such bill shall have been rendered.

§ 18. The preceding provisions shall be made part of Ibid. every contract hereafter made for constructing, altering or repairing any sewer or culvert in any street of this city in which the pipes of either the Manhattan or New York Gaslight companies shall be laid, at the time of making such contract.

§ 19. It shall be the duty of the person or persons by Ibid. whom or for whose benefit any excavation is to be made for constructing, altering, or repairing a vault, waste-pipe or drain, in any street of this city, to give notice, in writing, thereof, to the company whose pipes are laid in the street about to be disturbed by the construction, alteration or repairing of such vault, waste-pipe or drain, at

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least twenty-four hours before commencing the same; and such person or persons shall, at his or their expense, sustain, secure and protect said pipes from injury, and replace and pack the earth wherever the same shall have been removed, loosened or disturbed, under or around them, so that such pipes shall be well and substantially supported; and if such person or persons shall fail so to sustain, secure and protect said pipes from injury, or to replace and pack the earth under or around them, as by the provisions of this section required, then the same may be done by the company to whom the same may belong, and the cost thereof, and all damages sustained by either of said companies thereby, shall be paid by said person or persons to said company, and the said company may, in default thereof, maintain an action against him or them therefor.

§ 20. The provisions of the last preceding section shall be made part and a condition of every permit that shall be hereafter granted to any person or persons for making any excavation for the construction, alteration or repairing any vault, waste-pipe or drain in any street in which the pipes of either of the said companies shall be laid at the time of granting such permit, provided said company, or either of them, provide said permits, or pay a just proportion therefor.

CHAPTER XVII.

OF THE LIGHTING OF PUBLIC GAS LAMPS.

§ 1. No person, unless authorized by the Manhattan Gaslight Company, shall, at any time, light, or cause to be lighted, any public lamp which said company is or shall be required to light, under their contract made with the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the city of New York, dated May 5, 1848; and no person, unless authorized by the New York Gaslight Company, shall, at any time, light, or cause to be lighted, any public lamp which the said New York Gaslight Company is or shall be required to light, under their contract, made with the said Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the said city. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall thereby incur and be liable to a penalty of five dollars, payable to the company whose lamps shall be so lighted, or caused to be lighted, for every such violation; and either of said companies shall be liable to a like fine of five dollars, for wilfully neglecting to light any lamp according to contract, said fine to be payable to the city treasury.