Advertisement. That / [electronic resource] by act of Council, dated 25th November 1767, the magistrates and Town Council of Edinburgh, approved of the report of their committee, bearing, ... "That they apprehended the ordering of each bye-pipe, within the city and liberties, to have a stop-cock, was intended as a compulsatory for payment of the water-duty, ... And the Council further ordered the City Chamberlain, and the Overseer of the Water, to see the same carried into execution