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 fused to give the name and address of the offender, then the person in charge shall be deemed to have committed an offence under this Act,

Part IIJ,—GENERAL Powers,

37. Conservators may accept and hold land for certain purposes.—In addi- tion to their existing powers to take and hold land, it shall he lawful for the Conservator to aecept and hold any land which any person may offer to them for dedication to public uses in connection with the purposes of this Act, upon such terms and conditions as they may sce fit, and it shall be lawful for the Corporation of the City of J.ondon, or the Metropolitan Board of Works, and for the University of Oxford, or, subject to the provisions of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, so far as they are applicable, for the Corporation of the City of Oxford, or any corporation or other person, to give, grant, dedicate, convey, or devise any land or right over land to the extent of their estates and interests respectively, unto the Conservators, for the purpose of enabling the public to use such and or any part thereof as a public highway, or as a place of public resort, or for the purpose of creating bathing-places or camping- grounds or landing-places, or for any other purposes connected with this Act, any of the provisions of Uhe Act passed in the ninth year of the reign of King George the Second, chapter thirty-six, or any other statute or any rule of law to the contrary notwithstanding.

38, Acquisition by agreement of right of abstracting water from the river.— Where any company or person is entitled under any Act of Parliament, grant, cnstom, or otherwise, to any right of abstracting or appropriating water which might otherwise flow or find its way into the river, it shall be lawful for any such person on the one hand and the Conservators or any other person on the other hand, to enter into and carry inte effect an agreement or agreements far the conveyance of such right to the Conservators ; and cyery such right may ke conyeyed to the Conservators by deed, and shall as from the date of such conveyance be absolutely extinguished to the intent that such water shall thereafter be allowed to flow into the river,

‘And it shall be lawful for any of the companies supplying water within the Metropolis to snake contributions out of their capital or revenue in aid of the acquisition and extinguishment of any such right, and for the Conservators to aceept such contributions and contributions from any other person or persons and employ them for that purpose,

19. Alteration and suspension of by-lares.—It shall be lawfyl for the Con- servators, in addition to all powers of making by-laws already possessed by them under the Acts mentioned in the First Schedule hereto, to make, and from time to time to suspend or alter in the same manner and with the same consent as in the same Acls is provided, all by-laws which they may deem necessary for the purposes mentioned in this Act, or in the Sccond Schedule hereto.

20. Continning offences.—Any act or default in contravention of any of the id by-laws or of the provisions of this Act, which after due notice is repeated or continued, shall be a continuing offence under this Act.