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Correction of errors and omissions in special Act.
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7. If any omission, mis-statement, or wrong description shall have been made of any lands, or of the owners, lessees, or occupiers of any lands, described or purporting to be described in the special Act, or in the schedule thereto, the undertakers, after giving ten days notice to the owners, lessees, and occupiers of the lands affected by such proposed correction, may apply in England or Ireland to two justices, and in Scotland to the sheriff, for the correction thereof; and if it appear to such justices or sheriff that such omission, mis-statement, or wrong description arose from mistake, they or he shall certify the same accordingly, and shall in such certificate state the particulars of any such omission, mis-statement, wrong description; and such certificate shall be deposited in England or Ireland with the clerk of the peace, and in Scotland with the sheriff clerk, of the county in which the lands affected thereby shall be situated, or, where any such lands are situated in a royal burgh in Scotland, with the town clerk of such burgh; and such certificate shall be kept by such clerk of the peace, sheriff clerk, or town clerk, with the other documents to which they relate, and there-upon the special Act or schedule shall be deemed to be corrected according to such certificate; and the undertakers may make the works in accordance with such certificate, as if such omission mis-statement, or wrong description had not been made.
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