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For each lamp, Vnot lighted at the time fixed in the table o r ; reque­ sted by the Police-Director, a fine is to be paid: of 3 Mk. r. S. with ad­ dition of ?3 , Mk. for each hour, untill such lamps ;shall be lighted. An.ac- eusation by an inspecting Sergeant,- corroborated by the declaration of one wit­ ness, to be sworn to if requested, or the congruous declaration of 2 Witnes- % ses, which likewise may be requested to be sworn to, shall be considered as sufficient evidence or full proof, and fines be dictated by the. Police- Director’s sentence, from which no appeal shall be allowed. ; ■ ;;v. ■; ; It shal be lawful, at pleasure, to request less than full lighting, for instance half lighting, such as now is practised from midnight untill the ex- tinquishing-time, or in what other proportion it may be requested. This lighting the Company is obliged to procure after the proportion proposed by the Police, by diminishing the flames in all the Gaslamps without leaving any lamp extinguished, if this be possible without any sensible loss to the Company, but else by leaving a convenient number extinguished according to a previous agreement with the Police. , §* 13* * 'i:i ■»; • i n• The Company is bound to provide for the lamps being: kept burning ^according to the determinations already stated,- during the whole tiipe, prescri­ bed in the table or signified by the Police-Director. For each lamp which agreeably to the said determinations ought to be burning, and which iq the manner , noticed in §. 11, may be proved during an hour to ~have been ex­ tinguished, or not to have burnt with proper flame, shall according to the PoHce - Director’s sentence, « from which no appeal is allowed, : be paid a fine of 3 Mk. or £ Rbdlr. r. S. except when civil tumult is found to have caused the extinguishing, in which case the Company shall not be responsible nor subject to any fine. Likewise no fine is to take place, whenever an injury done should happen to make the relighting the same night impossible, in which case nevertheless the deficiency is to be supplied by oil - lamps. Neither is any fine to. be incurred when necessary repairs at the works or pipes may inter­ rupt the supply of Gas to particular lamps, but then the deficiency is to be supplied by temporary oil - lamps affording the same intensity of light. ; : 7 . • . §. 12 . ■' -vr;: ; ; : ; 'c! • v::- Whereas the lamps now lighted in the streets 8c the precincts of Co­ penhagen may be stated to burn annually on an average each 1420 hours, when the time when half lighting has taken place is only reckoned for half, - ; ■§. 1 4 ■-* * 4 - -

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