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The Commissioners may take Security instead of Deposit from Tenants having certain Interests in Lands who may desire to qualify as Proprietors for the Purpose of assenting, by paying the Proportion of the whole Expence of the Works to be charged upon the Lands held by them.
Proviso.
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XIII. ‘And whereas under the Provisions of the said first-recited Act Persons having certain Interests (as therein specified) in any Portion of the Lands proposed to be drained or (improved, who shall deposit with the said Commissioners such Sum of Money as shall be deemed sufficient for the Payment of the Sum with which such Portion of the Land may become chargeable for or in respect of the Costs and Expences of the Works proposed to be executed, may be deemed Proprietors of such Land, and the Persons entitled to assent to such Works, for the Purpose of the said recited Act;’ be it enacted, That it may be lawful for the said Commissioners, if think fit, in any such Case, in lieu of any such to Deposit of a Sum of Money as aforesaid, to accept, in addition to the Security of the Lands of which any such Person may be seised or possessed within the Limits of the District, and to become chargeable under the Award of the said Commissioners, such Security as the said Commissioners shall deem sufficient for the due Payment of the Sum of Money with which such Portion of Land may become chargeable for or in respect of the Costs and Expences of the Works proposed to be executed under the Provisions of the said recited Acts or this Act; and any such Person having such Interest, and making or having heretofore made such Deposit, or giving such Security as aforesaid, shall, for all the Purposes of the said recited Acts or this Act, be deemed the Proprietor of the Land in respect of which he shall have mode such Deposit or given such Security; and such Lands shall thenceforth be and remain charged with and liable to the Sums payable in respect of the Costs and Expences of the Works, and the Maintenance and upholding of the same, in like Manner as the Lands of any Proprietor under the Provisions of the said recited Acts and this Act: Provided always, that any Person having such Interest, and making such Deposit or giving such Security as aforesaid, shall not be liable, under the Provisions of the said recited Acts or this Act, to have the Rent of such Lands increased by any Order or Determination of the said Commissioners.
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