the Company.—A water authority, unless prevented by frost, drought, or other unavoidable accident, or during necessary repairs, is bound to fix, maintain, and repair all fireplugs; and it must furnish to the local authorities a sufficient supply of water for cleansing sewers, drains, and streets, and watering the latter, and for supplying public pumps, baths, and wash-houses. The water authority has power to make terms for doing the foregoing. It incurs a penalty of ..e10, and 40s. a day for every day it makes omission in any of these respects after receipt of a notice in writing. So also does it if,except when prevented as above mentioned,it neglects to keep its pipes charged under such pressure as will make the water reach the top storey of the highest house within its limits, unless its special Acts modify its duty to do so. And so also does it if, except when prevented as above, it neglects or refuses to furnish to any owner or occupier entitled to receive a supply of water during any part of the time for which the rates for such supply have been paid or tendered. By the penalty of <,E5 is incurred (cisterns) by any one who is required to provide a proper cistern with a ball and stopcock and fails to do so ; and (parting with water) by the owner or occupier of a tenement supplied with water who supplies to any other person, or wilfully permits him to take, any water from a cistern or pipe in the tene ment, unless for extinguishing a fire, or unless he is supplied,with water by the company, and the pipes belonging to him are, without his default, out of repair ; and (injuring fittings) by any one who wilfully or carelessly breaks, injures, or opens any lock, cock, valve, pipe, work, or engine belonging to the company, or flushes, or draws off the water from its reservoirs or works, or (wasting) does any other wilful act whereby such water is wasted ; and (mis using and wasting) by any one who, being supplied with water by the com pany, wilfully or negligently allows a pipe, valve, cock, cistern, bath, soil pan, water-closet or other apparatus, or other receptacle, to be out of repair, or to be so used or contrived as that the water is, or is likely to be, wasted, mis used, unduly consumed or contaminated, or so as to occasion or allow the return of foul air or other noisome or impure matter into any of the com pany's pipes ; and (altering pipe8) by any one who affixes, or permits to be affixed, a pipe or apparatus to a water pipe belonging to the company, or to a communication or service pipe belonging to, or used by, him, or makes an alteration in any such communication or service pipe, or in any apparatus connected therewith, without the company's written consent. In the last
case the company have also the right to proceed against the offender for damages. Misuse.—A penalty of 40s. is incurred by, and the value of the water misused 'nay be recovered from, any one who, only having water supplied for domestic purposes, or for any other purposes, uses it for a purpose other than that for which it was supplied. A person supplied with water for domestic purposes cannot therefore use his water for supplying his trade, as for washing down horses and carriages if he is a carrier, or for cattle and horses, or for watering gardens, or for fountains, or for any orna mental purpose. But if he keeps a school, the water supplied for the swim ming bath is a supply for domestic purposes (Barnard Castle U.D.C. v. Wilson) ; and if he keeps a boarding-house he may supply water for the use of the inmates (Pidgeon v. Great Yarmouth Waterworks). Water stored in pipes may be the subject of larceny at common law ; but apart from that a penalty of .eio is incurred by any one who wrongfully takes water other than that supplied to him, or supplied for the gratuitous use of the public. And no one inay foul or bathe in the streams, reservoirs, or other waterworks of the company.