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Preliminary Proceedings.
Definition of what Surveys and Proceedings shall be requisite under this Act.
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VIII. ‘And whereas under the Provisions of the said first recited Act much Expence and Delay are caused in the Proceedings preliminary to the issuing of the final Notice to be published by the said Commissioners, and to the Commencement of the Works by said Act authorized, and many of such Proceedings may, under the Provisions herein contained, be dispensed with or postponed;’ be it therefore enacted, That for the Purpose of all such preliminary Proceedings, and to authorize the said Commissioners to hold the Meeting by the said first-recited Act directed previously to taking the Assents of Proprietors to the Execution of any Work under said Acts or this Act, and making the Declaration aforesaid by said Acts or this Act directed to be made, as also issuing the final Notice by the said first-recited Act directed to be given previously to proceeding with the Execution of any of the Works by said Acts or this Act authorized, it shall not be necessary for the said Commissioners to obtain in detail a Survey or Valuation of the several Plots or Portions of Land proposed to be drained or improved, or to make more than One Survey of any such Land, or to inquire into Particulars of Titles or Tenures of the respective Proprietors, Lessees, or Occupiers of such Lands, or to state in detail the Proportions in which such Lands shall be liable to the Costs of the Execution of the proposed Works, or the Lands or other Property to be purchased for the Execution of the Works, or the Owners, Lessees, or Occupiers of such Land, but, as regards all such Matters and Things as aforesaid, and for the Purpose of enabling the said Commissioners to take the Assents of Proprietors, and to make the Declaration in and by the said recited Acts or this Act authorized, and to issue such final Notice as aforesaid, it shall be deemed sufficient to have prepared and deposited such Plans, Sections, and Estimates as the said Commissioners may consider sufficient for the Purpose of showing the Works to be executed, with the estimated Costs thereof, including all Expences incidental thereto, showing also the District or Limits within which it is proposed to put the Powers of the said Acts or this Act into execution, as well as the Extent of Land or River to be drained or improved, together with a general Statement of the average present Value of the Lands to be drained or improved, and of the Increase in such average Value estimated to arise from the Execution of the proposed Works, and a List of the reputed Proprietors of such Lands, with a Return of the Quantity of Land within such District held by such Proprietors respectively, so far as the same may have been ascertained by such general Survey as aforesaid, any thing in the said recited Acts or either of them, requiring any further or other Schedules, Maps, Plans, Matters, or Things whatsoever, to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.
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