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Commissioners may appoint Officers and make Contracts.
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III. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners for the Purposes of this Act for the Time being, or any Three of them, and they are hereby authorized and required from Time to Time to nominate and appoint by Writing under their Hands a Secretary, and One or more Clerk or Clerks, and also from Time to Time to employ such Engineers, Surveyors, and other Officers, and such Labourers and Workmen as the said Commissioners shall think proper and expedient for the better carrying into Execution the Purposes of this Act; and it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to contract and agree with any fit and proper Person or Persons, Artificers, Workmen and others, for the making, doing, and preparing of all or any of the Roads and Works, by this Act authorized or directed to be done and performed or any Part thereof, or for supplying any of the Materials for the same, which Contract shall be signed by the Person or Persons contracting or agreeing to perform such Works respectively, and also by Three or more of the said Commissioners, or by the Secretary to the said Commissioners authorized under the Hands of Three of the said Commissioners for that Purpose; and all Contracts which shall have been made or entered into at any Time before the passing of this Act, by or on Behalf or under the Authority of the Commissioners nominated and appointed in pursuance of the said recited Act of the Forty-fifth Year, shall be and the same are hereby declared good, valid and effectual to all Intents and Purposes, and shall be carried into Effect in like Manner as Contracts to be made under the Authority of this present Act.
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