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ceeding three dollars for each day during which such failure shall 

 continue after the expiration of the time specified in the notice. 



Where the notice is not complied with (and not\\ithstanding 

 proceedings may have been or are about to be instituted for the 

 recovery of the penalty for non-compliance therewith) the local 

 authority may, after the expiration of the time specified in the 

 notice, do the work required, and may recover in a summary 

 manner the expenses incurred by them in so doing from the owner 

 or occupier of the lot in the first case, and in the second case from 

 the owner or occupier of the land or the dwelling-house thereon, 

 or may by order declare the same to be private improvement 

 expenses. 



Any expense incurred by the occupier of any lot or building in 

 complying with any notice under this section may be recovered by 

 him from the owner of the lot or of the land on which the building 

 is erected, unless the necessity for the work required by the said 

 notice to be performed was rendered necessary by the act of the 

 occupier, or unless it has been otherwise agreed between the owner 

 and occupier. 



AS TO DRAINAGE. 



1. Every lot exceeding fifty feet in width shall have not less 

 than two drains, and every lot under and not up to fifty feet in 

 width shall have at least one drain. 



2. Each such drain shall be so placed : 



(a) That the centre thereof shall not be less than two feet from 

 the nearest boundary line of tlie lot unless the Town 

 Superintendent, the circumstances being exceptional, shall 

 give permission in writing to place any such drain nearer 

 to such boundary line ; 



(b) That such drains shall run clear from and outside of all 

 buildings on the lot in a straight line without any bend or 

 angle unless the Town Superintendent, the circumstances 

 being exceptional, shall give permission in writing to place 

 any such bend or angle in any such drain ; 



(c) That the tops of the sides of such drain shall be below 

 the level of the surface of the lot and that the said sides 

 shall be pierced at intervals of not less than ten feet with 

 holes of not less than one square inch in area, and being 

 not less than two inches above the level of the bottom of 

 the drain ; 



{d) That the bottom of such drain shall at the upper end or 

 highest level thereof have a depth of not less than six 

 inches, and shall have a fall towards the point of discharge 

 of not less than two inches in every one hundred feet ; 



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