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I i'.i ' Office of the Comnissioners of Water Sapply, for the City of Saint John, (East Side;, and the Parish of Portland : Saint John, September 3rd, 1858. The annexed Bye Laws, Ordinances, Rules and Regula- tions, have been established and adopted by the Commissioners, and have been duly approved of by His Ercellency the Lieu- tenant Governor, in Council, agreeably to Sec. 3., Cap. vii., Anno Vicessimo Pnmo Victoria Reginm. JOIIX SKAHS, Chairman. I:- , iVr'"*-'- BYE-LAWS AND ORDINANCES. Be it Ordained, — 1st. If any person shall open any Hydrant in the City of Saint John, or Parish of Portland, or liA or remove the cover of any Hydrant, without the permission of the Board of OommiH- sioners, or of their Superintendant of Works (except in case of fire) he shall be liable to a penalty of Forty Shillings. 2nd. If any person shall make any opening in or con- nection with any pipe, without the license mentioned in the preced- hig section, he shall be liable to a penalty of Forty Shillings. 3rd. If any person shall turn on or shut off the water in any of the pipes without the license mentioned in the first sootiou, he shall be liable to a penalty of Forty Shillings. 4th. If any person shall obstruct or prevent aacam to any stop-cock connected with the pipes, by placing o-ver it any building materials or other hindrance, or in any way do any act or thing to prevent access to or the use of any Hydrant, ho shall bo liable to a penalty of Forty Shillings, and the like penalty fur each day the same shall remain after notice from tlie Oonnnissioiiers ov their officers, to remove the obstruction. 5th. If any person dhall take or carry away wator from any Hydrant in any hogshead, barrel, or vessel containing more than five gallons, without the consent of tlic Commissionciv, or use the water from the Hydrants for watering horses, or ciittlo, N~tr washing ciiri-iagcs, or for building or manufacturing purpoHO!*, he shall be liable to a penalty of ten shillings for each ofll'uce. 6tli. If any person shall sell or dispose of water from the Works of the Commissioners, Avithout a license from or agree- ment with the Board, he shall be liable to a penalty of twenty shil- lings for each oflfence. 7th. If any person, owning or occupying premises where water supply is provided and led thereto, shall appropriate or make use of the water for steam engines, factories, bathing rooms, or hotels, or for building purposes, without first agreeing with the Commissioners for the use thereof, he shall be liable to a penalty of twenty shillings for each offence, and the water supply shall be shut off the premises, until an agreement has been made with the Com- missioners for the supply of the aforementioned specialities. 8th. If any person shall take or use the water for building purposes, boilers, or any trade or factory, without the ex- press consent of the Board, he shall be liable to a penalty of twenty shillings for each offence. RULES AND REGULATIONS. 1. — Application for service pipes must state full and truly all the purposes for which the water is required ; the annual rental or value of the premises, the number of occupants or tenants, and the number of taps or hydrants intended to be placed. 2. — Whenever a service pipe has been laid, the proprietor of the premises must continue the same, without delay into the premious, safely and securely, from frost or injury ; if load through basement or cellar walls, after opening thereof, to build up and plaster around the pipes, and take such other precautions to make the work frost proof, as the Superintendent of Works shall require. 5 .•J. — To every supply pipe lusida of the pvemisea, tliere must be a substantial waste tap, attached as close as practicable to the wall or pipe entrance, Avith a screw coupling connection and an iron rod key of not less than two feet in length placed upon the said waste tap, the whole at this point to be carefully boxed up and filled in with bran or sawdust, so that in cold weather, the water in the pipe where it enters the premises may be securely protected from frost, and enabling the occupants to shut off the water at the waste tap, and dmw therefrom during cold Aveather, by the rod key. 4. — In premises Avithout cellar walls, or built on a level with the street, inside excavation must be made sufficiently broad and deep to continue inside the service pipe and A\^astetap connection beneath the reach of frost, affixing to the waste tap an iron rod key of suf- ficient length, and placing the same so as to shut off the water at this point, within the premises, during cold weather. 5. — All inside pipes and fixtures must be selected and the work done by competent and experienced plumbers, (approved of or licensed by the Board of Comraissionei's) to the satisfaction of the ♦Superintendent of Works. 6. — Hydrants or taps placed in yards, alleys^ or exposed places, must be housed ove* , and in no case will water from any premises be permitted to floAV over the side Avalks or street, or upon the proper- ty of others to their injury or annoyance. 7. — No waste of Avater or unnecessary flowagc from any tap or hydrant Avill be permitted ; and there shall be no concealment of the purpose for Avhich it is used. 8. — Water takers must keep all pipes and fixtures Avithin their premises, including any area beneath the side-walks, in gootl repair, and sufficiently protected from frost. ' 9. — No person shall make an alteration in any of the pipes or fixtures, except by pennission of the Commissioners. 10. — ^The officers of the Board personally, and every person de- legated by them for the purpose, to have free access at proper hours of the day to all parts of every building and steam vessel in which water from the works is deliverel and consumed. 11. — Special application for the use of hose, baths, water closets, urinals, or extra purposes, must be made at the Commissioners' Office, and no branch pipe attached to any hose used for washing windows, or unspecified purpose shall have an orifice larger than § of an inch in diameter, nor will it be permitted to use a hose to wash off coaches, omnibuses, or other vehicles, without a special agreement therefor, nor to be converted into jets, or the water suf- fered to run to waste, or leak, or used to wash the filth of gutters down on neighbours, or into sewers, or used to throw floods of water on side walk platforms, or streets, but merely to sprinkle them. 12. — In premises where there are tenants or occupants supplied for hotels, manufiictories, bathing rooms, or steam engines, by agree- ment with the Board, the owner or leaseholder must provide a se- perate supply pipe for each tenant or occupant, or be liable to have the water shut off the whole premises, for any breach of agreement, arrearages, or violation of any Bye Law, Ordinance, Rule or Regulation of the Board on the part of the tenants or occupants so specially supplied. 13. — The Commissioners may, whenever they deem it necessary, in order to determine the consumption of watcjr in any premises supplied, place metres on any supply pipe. 14.— The penalty for a violation of any of the Commissioners' Rules and Regulations and Requirements (in addition to any fine that may be imposed nnJcr any Uye Law or Ordinance) will be the prompt stoppage of the supply of water ; nor will it be restored except on the payment of the expense of shutting it off and turning it on, and a satisfactory understanding with the parties that no fu- ture cause of complaint shall arise ; and it shall be the duty of the Chairman strictly to enforce all Bye Laws, Ordinances, Rules and Regulations established and adopte em- ling anil the pro- they kther 11 be [hall ided I day af Lnd, land oby ere- mi in tliosaiuo muiinor a-< upon onliiiary warnintH i;f uMiitHiufiitH ; ami t\u9 niiiuunt »> nHBOHHud uliall bi^ loviod and ciilloctttd iu Mk*) nmiiiuH, uioturH and fixturuH, within or without prcmisofl Muppliod, or rtiady to Imi Mupjilii'd ; to prevent any unnec- ccHsary waato, or thing projudioial to tho Ounoral Water Supply or workw of tho Cominisflionorn, and rogulato by ujotors, if neocBuary, tho consump- tion of W'vter on promiK^s HupplltH), or to bo supplioil, and for Hhuttinp; otl* water from any voiwol, place or prouuseH, f(»r a violation of any byo law or ordinance, rules and rogulations, mado by tho CounniMHionors ; and tho Bjiid Commissionors aro horoby ouipowored to enforce said bye laws, ordi- nances, rules and rogulationn, lm]>ose and recover lines and penalties not exceeding forty shillings for any ono olTunoo, and levy and collect the stinio with costs, l)y WarnintH of Distroso, to bo Issued upon tho order of tho Commissioners, and signed by the Chairman, ov two of tho Commissioners, against tho goods and ohattols of ;Uoofi(mder; provided always, that all Bucli byo laws, ordinances, rules or rogulations shall bo transmitted on tho making thereof to tho Governor ; and it shall and may bo lawful for tho Governor in Council, within thirty days after tho receipt of such ordi- nances, byo laws, rules or regulations, to dlsuUow the same or any part thereof, which disallowanoo shall bo signified to the said CommisHioners, and thereupon the same or any part thereof so disallowed sluiU be void. 4. That any demand to Iw made unTl shall be kept for inspection at tho oflloo of the Commission ers ; and any te&ant, occuj^T, or other person, whoso goods and chattels may havo been ^stralriod upon foirTIio assessment upon tho promises ^n which they may reside, 8hairbc~cntitled to recover tho sanioTrom tho owner in fee, or lease- holder for renewable ^terms of thg said promibcs, together with the costs 10 / and expenses that maj' Iiavo been incurred thereon, unlcHS it can he shown tfiaTBome agreement to Tilie^conlraryyiadlljeen made between the parties^ C.~Section8 fourteen and fifteen of the above recited Act shall include the Parish of Simonds in the County of Saint John, for all the purposes of the works of the Oommiflsionei's. - 7. That 80 much of the provisions of the above reci'ted Act as shall bo ^repugnant to the provisions of this Act is hereby repealed. Summary of an Act of the Legislature of the Province of New Brunswick to provide for an Improved Syi-tem of Sewerage and Water Supply of part of the City of Saint John, and Parish of Portland, in the County of Saint John. Passed I2th Aprils 1855. Section 6 provides — That it shall be lawliiL for-the-Commisaionerg to |)roceed for recovery oF any arrears oi* moneys due to theL Water - Company at tHe tune oTsuch traneferj or i,vhich may subaeij^uently falljlue ■ttwter^or by virtue of a,ny contracts or "agreements made with the jaid "t ^om jm i iy pr ior to such transtej'^ by distress and sale^ in manner provided "tsyTfetweirty-second Section of the. Act, 8. The service pipes for water supply to houses, buildings, or establish - ments, shall be carried from the main to the side line of tne street by the Commissioners at the public expense, when required so to do by notice in writing from the owner or owners of any house or building, and all beyond that distance at the expense of the owners or leaseholders for renewable terms of the premises so supplied. Section -9 provides. — ^WheTe%'er good and sufficient mains for the supply •of water to dwellings or other houses or establishments already exist, and likewise wherever the Siime shall be laid down and ready for the use of such dwellings, houses, or establishments within the said City, on the east side of the llavboui*, Gr the said District in the Palfish of Portland, the •owners in fee, or leaseholders for renewable terras of any lands or tene- ments through or along which such mains shall pass, shall, whether the water be taken or used on the premises or not, be respectively assessed for the same in each year, on a scale to be fixed and determined by the Com- missioners in each year, due regar d being h ad to the value j^ mode of occu- pation of the p rem|BCB , and~pro^ble conaumption of waterJjL each case ; and itTurther^rovuIes iX_any. person shall think himself agrievedHiy "rSiSDa^orsach assessment, it shall be lawful for him ia caso^Tie same ~^aU 15rirpim^t1ie^rCiRi8es_8Uu^^^^ ijl.the saidLCity, to appeal thereuponto ^g Coa nnoiTC ouncij of the s aid City ^ and in case the assessment iliall be upon" premiseslinPthe^aid district of the said Parish of Portland, such appeal shall lie to the General Quarter Sessions of the said City and Uounty, and the decision in cither case shall be final, and the assessment be amendpd by the Connnissioners in accordance with such order as may bo. therein made by the said Common Council or Sessions ro8[>ectively ; pro- vided that all such appeals shall bo made within thirty days after demand •of the amount assessed shall have bceu made upon the party so appealing 11 1 le in the for om- •cu- ise ; to Be lueh land licnt bo. IH'O- laiul ) \ 14. In the laying down, construction, repaiviug, and alteration of any luiiin or service pipes, drains, or sewers, under the provisions of this Act, the UommiBsioners, or any or either of them, and their servants, agents, or workmen, shall have full power and they are hereby authorized from time to time i\» oocn«ion may require, to enter upon any lands and tenements in the Hftid City, on the east side of the harbour, or in the district before luuntioned in the Parish of Portland, whether inhabited or otherwise, and may remain thereon as long as they may deem requisite for the proper oxt^tnitiun of the work, and may make all such excavations on the premises m may be expedient, and take up and remove any floors, timber, planks, i)V any walls, fences, or erections whatsoever, doing no unnecessary damage to th« same, and carefully replacing the same upon the requisite work being performed ; provided that no such entry shall be made between the hourH of sunset and sunrise, nor without the permission of the owner or oetnipant, if resident on the premises, being first requested ; but the refusal of Buoh permission shall not prevent or delay the execution of the work. 21. All mains, hydrants, service pipes, main and branch drains, sewers and other works, whether connected with sewerage or water supply of the said City on the east side of the harbour, and in the said district in the Parish of Portland, to be deemed and taken to be the property of the Oomntisstoners for all legal purposes ; and all wilful or malicious injuries to the sanio shall be deemed felony. 22. The assessments to be made under and by virtue of the ninth and thirteenth Sections of this Act, as well as the penalties which may from time to time be incurred under and by virtue of the sixteenth Section of tho same, H|tall be bindjng_ upon the respective lands and tenements speci tied in tho scales of^assessment prescribed by H^hTs Act, as weTT as on the '"veepeotlve owners and" paftTes therein mentioned, and tTie same shall be "' reeovorod with all incidenlaT charges and expenses^ By distress and sale oi ^any goods and chattels found upon the premises, and in caseuf deficiency of goods or chattels to satisfy the BamCt It sF^l h&lawful for the ^id ' ComnilsBlonerir to sequester and take and hold possession of the said premi- — ■88 until Huoh deficiency be"made good , and to collect, receive, and appsQ- ^' pTtiVtt) and apply the 'rents and profits of the said lands and premises^ in ""^ tmyRfOTtnyf the BOflifi.^ 23. l''or the recovery of assessment and rates and of all arrearages, it shall bp lawful for the Commissioners, or any two of them, to issue distress warrants and sequestration orders under their hands from time to time, in Huoh f«)rni as they may determine, briefly reciting therein the amount to be levied in each ease, and that such previous demand has been made as here- Inbofovo proscribed, and all Sheriffs and other peace officers are hereby requlrinl to I'xeonte such warrants and orders. 27. Till' Commissioners and their officers and servants shall have the like prcttootlon it) tho exorcise