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notice of intention to break up any road as hereinbefore
required, or shall break up any road without having given
such notice, or before such plan has been agreed upon or
determined as hereinbefore provided, or contrary in any
respect to such plan or shall make any delay in completing
any such work or in filling in the ground or making good
the pavement or surface so broken up or in carrying away
the rubbish so occasioned as aforesaid or in causing to be
fenced guarded or lighted the place where such pavement
or surface shall have been broken up, they shall forfeit a
sum not exceeding five pounds for every such offence and
a further sum not exceeding five pounds for each day
during which such delay shall continue.
Sub-sec. 5 provides that if any such delay as aforesaid shall
take place, the road authority may cause the matter or
thing so delayed to be done and the expenses of doing
the same together with the cost of recovering such expenses
may be recovered from the Company in a summary
manner:
Sub-sec. 6 provides that the Company shall not stop or impede
traffic in any road or into or out of any road further
than is necessary for the proper execution of their works,
nor shall the Company close against traffic more than
one-third in width of any road or of any way opening into
any road at one time, and in case two-thirds of such road
are not wide enough to allow two carriages to pass each
other, they shall not occupy with their works at one time
more than fifty yards in length of the one-third thereof
except with the special consent of the road authority;
Sub-sec. 7 provides that before they alter the position of any
pipe, sewer or drain, the Company shall give to the person
to whom the same belongs notice of their intention to do
so specifying the time at which they will begin to do so,
such notice to be given forty-eight hours at least before
the commencement of the work for effecting such alteration;
Sub-sec. 8 provides that the Company shall not execute such
work except under the superintendence of the person to
whom such pipe, sewer or drain belongs, unless such person
refuses or neglects to give such superintendence at the
time specified in the notice for the commencement of the
work, and the Company shall execute such work to the
reasonable satisfaction of such person.
(8.) That by clause I I of the Act it is proposed that in every