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Penalty for illegally diverting water.
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14. After the streams or supplies of water hereby or by the special Act authorized to be taken by the undertakers shall have been so taken, every person who shall illegally divert or take the waters supplying or flowing into the streams so taken, or any part thereof, or who shall do any unlawful act whereby the said streams or supplies of water may be drawn off or diminished in quantity, and who shall not immediately repair the injury done by him, on being required so to do by the undertakers so as to restore the said waters to the state in which they were before such act, shall forfeit to the undertakers any sum which shall be awarded in England or Ireland by two justices, and in Scotland by the sheriff, not exceeding five pounds for every day during which the said supply of water shall be diverted or diminished by reason of any act done by or by the authority of such person, and any sum so forfeited shall be in addition to the sum which he may be lawfully adjudged liable to pay to the undertakers for any damage which they may sustain by reason of their supply of water being diminished; and the payment of the sum so forfeited shall not bar or affect the right of the undertakers to bring or raise an action at law against such person for the damage so committed.
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