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Assents of Proprietors for more than One Half in Extent of the Lands to be drained and improved to be deemed sufficient to bring this Act into operation.
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XI. ‘And whereas it is in and by the said first-recited Act enacted, that no Works shall be commenced for the Drainage of any Land, under and by virtue of the said Act, unless the Proprietors of Two Thirds or more in Extent of the Land proposed to be drained or improved by such Drainage shall assent to the Execution thereof, in Writing under their Hands respectively, within such Time as the said Commissioners shall appoint: And whereas, by reason of the Absence of many Proprietors, as well as the Omission of others to sign the necessary Assent, even in Cases where they have not expressed Dissent, and from other Causes, it has been found difficult to obtain the written Assents of so many Proprietors as heretofore required, and thereby the Execution of many important and useful Works of Improvement have been and are injuriously delayed;’ be it therefore enacted, That all or any of the Works for the Drainage of Land under and by virtue of the said recited Acts or this Act, whether in connexion with Works for the Improvement of Water Power, Navigation, or otherwise, may be commenced, in case the Proprietors of any Quantity exceeding One Half in Extent of the Lands proposed, to be drained or improved by such Drainage shall, with the Consent of the Tenants (if any) of such Lands, as in and by said first-recited Act required, assent, or shall have heretofore assented, to the Execution of the proposed Works, in Writing under their Hands respectively, within such Time as the said Commissioners shall appoint, any thing in the said recited Act to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.
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