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Commissioners may make grants of more or less than 1,000l. for small harbours, &c., and of an amount less than or equal to a moiety of the estimated expence for roads or bridges.
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13. [Recital of power under recited Acts to make grants for roads and bridges equal to one-half the estimated expence, and for small harbours, piers, and quays up to one thousand pounds.] Notwithstanding any thing in the said Acts or any of them contained to the contrary, it shall and may be lawful to and for the said commissioners, out of the funds thereby or hereafter to be placed at their disposal for that purpose, to make grants in aid of the construction and erection of small harbours, piers, and quays on the sea coasts, and on navigable lakes and rivers, to such amount respectively, either more or less than the said sum of one thousand pounds, as they shall think expedient, and as shall be from time to time sanctioned by the Treasury, and also to make grants in aid of the construction or erection of any road or bridge to such amount as the Treasury shall from time to time sanction, whether the same be less than or equal to a moiety of the estimated expence of such road or bridge.
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