Lamps to be set up.
X. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners, and they are hereby empowered, from Time to Time, to cause such Lamp Irons or Lamp Posts to be put or affixed upon or against the Walls or Pallisades of any of the Houses, Tenements, or Buildings, or in such other Manner, within the said Streets and other publick Passages and Places, as they shall think proper; and also to cause such Number of Lamps, of such Sizes and Sorts, to be provided and affixed, or put upon such Lamp Irons and Lamp Posts, as they shall think necessary for lighting all or any of the said Streets, and other publick Passages and Places, and the said Lamps, and also the several Houses within the said respective Streets, and other publick Passages and Places, to be numbered; and if any Person shall wilfully break, throw down, take away, spoil, or damage any such Lamps, or any of the Irons, Posts, or other Furniture thereof, or wilfully extinguish the Light of any such Lamp, or deface or obliterate any such Number, every Person so offending shall, for every such Offence, forfeit and pay any Sum not exceeding Twenty Shillings, whereof One Moiety shall go to the Informer, and such Offender shall also pay to the said Commissioners, or to such Person as they shall appoint to receive the same, such Sum of Money as shall be a full Satisfaction for the Damage so done; and in case any Person shall carelessly, negligently, or accidentally break, throw down, or otherwise spoil or damage any of the said Lamps, or the Irons, Posts, or other Furniture thereof, and shall not, upon Demand, make Satisfaction for the Damage done thereto, it shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex, upon Proof thereof made by the Oath of any credible Witness, or on the Confession of the Party, to award such Sum of Money, by way of Satisfaction for such Damage, as such Justice shall think reasonable, and in Default of Payment thereof, upon Demand, to cause the same to be levied by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the Person who shall have done such Damage, rendering the Overplus (if any) after deducting the Charges of prosecuting such Complaint, and of such Distress and Sale, to the Owner of such Goods and Chattels, upon Demand.