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henceforth be exercised by the Board, and the Board shall be
entitled to receive copies or extracts of all plans kept by
any water company under the provision of the Act of the
session of the fifteenth and sixteenth years of her Majesty,
chapter eighty-four; and every such water company shall
provide at the expense of the Board in any mains or pipes
within the metropolis plugs for the supply of water in case
of fire at such places, of such dimensions, and in such form
as the Board may require, and the Fire Brigade shall be at
liberty to make such use thereof as they may deem necessary
for the purpose of extinguishing any fire; and every such
company shall deposit keys of all their fireplugs at such
places as may be appointed by the Board, and the Board may
put up on any house or building a public notice in some
conspicuous place in each street in which a fireplug is
situated, showing its situation.
33. "Owner" in this Act shall mean the person for the time
being receiving the rackrent of the premises in connexion
with which the word is used, either on his own account or as
agent or trustee for some other person, or who would receive
the same if the premises were let at rackrent.
_Repeal._
34. On and after the first day of January, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-six, there shall be repealed so much
as is unrepealed of an Act passed in the fourteenth year of
his late Majesty King George the Third, chapter
seventy-eight, and intituled an Act for the further and
better regulation of buildings and party walls, and for the
more effectually preventing mischief by fire, within the
Cities of London and Westminster and the liberties thereof,
and other the parishes, precincts, and places within the
weekly bills of mortality, the parishes of St. Marylebone,
Paddington, St. Pancras, and St. Luke, at Chelsea, in the
County of Middlesex, and for indemnifying, under certain
conditions, builders and other persons against the penalties
to which they are or may be liable for erecting buildings
within the limits aforesaid contrary to law, with the
exception of sections eighty-three and eighty-six which
shall remain in full force, but such repeal shall not affect
any penalty or liability incurred under the repealed
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