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Annual account to be made up by undertakers.
Recovery of damages and penalties.
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38. And with respect to the yearly receipt and expenditure of the undertakers, be it enacted, that the undertakers shall, in each year after they have begun to supply gas under the provisions of this or the special Act, cause an account in abstract to be prepared of the total receipts and expenditure of all rents or funds levied under the powers of this or the special Act for the year preceding, under the several distinct heads of receipt and expenditure, with a statement of the balance of such account, duly audited and certified by the chairman of the undertakers, and also by the auditors thereof, if any; and a copy of such annual account, if the gasworks be situated in England or Ireland, shall be transmitted, free of charge, to the clerk of the peace for the county in which the gasworks are situate, and if the gasworks be situated in Scotland, such copy shall be transmitted, free of charges as aforesaid, to the sheriff clerk of such county, and such transmission shall be made on or before the thirty-first day of January in each year, under a penalty of twenty pounds for each default; and the copy of such account so sent to the said clerk of the peace or sheriff clerk shall be kept by him, and shall be open to inspection by all persons at all seasonable hours, on payment of one shilling for each inspection.
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And with respect to the recovery of damages not specially provided for, and of penalties, and to the determination of any other matter referred to justices or to the sheriff, be it enacted as follows:
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