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CEMETERIES CLAUSES ACT 1847 - SECT 22

Damages, or a daily penalty during the continuance of the offence after notice, may be recovered.

22. In addition to the said penalty of fifty pounds, (and whether such penalty
is recovered or not,) any person having right to use the water fouled by such
offensive matter may sue the company, in an action on the case, in any court
of competent jurisdiction, for any damage specially sustained by him by reason
of the water being so fouled; or if no special damage be alleged, for the sum
of ten pounds for each day during which such offensive matter is brought or
flows as aforesaid after the expiration of twenty-four hours from the time
when notice of the offence is served on the company by such person.

And with respect to burials in the cemetery:

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