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account for constructing Amount brought forward Amount carried forward assistant engineer Augustus F Benjamin F Carpenter carting pipes charged to Warren Charles H City of Providence curved pipes cut pipes Daniel Daniel D Dexter Gorton engineering department Fales fire hydrants Foundry and Machine freight of water Fuller Iron gate George Bowers George H Gray Henry G Hope Engine House Hope Pumping Station Hope Reservoir horse hire house at Pettaconset inch inspector on pipe Iron Foundry Jenks & Sons John labor and materials last quarter laying water pipes Lobdell & Newmans north-east corner Otis F paid Pawtuxet Pawtuxet river Pierce pipe yard Providence Steam pumping engineer Purdy Rent of offices salary as assistant salary as inspector salary as temporary Samuel Schooner Slade Sockanosset Reservoir special castings stationery sundries superintendent of pipe temporary assistant Thomas Phillips W. A. Burdick Walter F Warren Foundry WATER COMMISSIONERS water fixtures WILLIAM CORLISS William H
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Page 11 - ... erasure or alteration in any entry in any set of books or in any instrument authorized by this Act, or knowingly defrauds or is privy to defrauding any person by means of a false or fraudulent instrument, certificate, owner's duplicate certificate, statement or affidavit affecting registered land, shall be fined not exceeding five thousand dollars or imprisoned not exceeding five years, or both, in the discretion of the court. SEC. 118. (1) Whoever forges or procures to be forged or assists in...
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Page 10 - ... if any person shall wantonly or maliciously divert, obstruct or retain the water, or any part thereof of any pond, brook, reservoir, or water-course, taken or held by said city as aforesaid, or shall corrupt or render impure the same, or destroy or injure any dam, reservoir, aqueduct, conduit, pipe, hydrant, machinery, or other works or property, held, owned or used by said city, by authority of any of said acts, every such person shall forfeit and pay to said city of Worcester three times the...
Page 14 - The mayor, city marshal, city clerk, city treasurer, street commissioner, supervisors, and constables, shall hold their offices for the term of one year from the first Monday in April of the year when elected and until their successors are qualified and enter upon the duties of their offices.
Page 9 - Annual Report of the Chief Engineer of the Water Department of the City of Philadelphia, for the year 1874.
Page 10 - ... person shall maliciously or wantonly divert the water of either of said streams or sources from which water shall be taken and conveyed to the City of Newport, as aforesaid, or shall corrupt or render impure the same or any water connected therewith, or shall destroy or injure any pipe, dam, reservoir, machinery or other property used in or relating to the premises, such person or persons, and his or their aiders or abbetters shall forfeit to said Norman, his heirs or assigns, to be recovered...
Page 36 - Zlst of January, 1844, to ascertain the Height that a Jet of Water will rise from the Mains and Services belonging to the Southwark Water Company, under a fixed pressure of 120 feet. ' The first trial was made in Union Street, between High Street and Gravel Lane, Borough, over an extent of 800 yards of 7-inch main, and through the fire brigade stand-pipes, hose and jets.