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Commissioners may survey lands, and take the same for making roads and bridges, rendering compensation to proprietors, &c.
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74. The said commissioners for the execution of this Act shall and may and they are hereby empowered, themselves, their agents, surveyors, workmen, and all other persons by them employed and authorized, at all such times as to the said commissioners may seem fit and convenient, to enter into and upon any lands or grounds whatsoever which it may be deemed proper or necessary to survey for the purpose of making any road or bridge under the provisions of this Act; and the said commissioners shall have power and authority to take and acquire all such ground as may be necessary for making the said roads and erecting the said bridges, rendering therefor, or for any damage which may be occasioned thereby, such satisfaction to the proprietor or proprietors, occupier or occupiers, as may be agreed upon between the said commissioners and such proprietor or proprietors, occupier or occupiers; and in the event that they cannot agree, then upon payment of such sum or sums of money as shall be awarded by a jury of twelve persons summoned and chosen by the sheriff of the county in such manner as juries are summoned and chosen by sheriffs of counties in Ireland, whose determination is hereby declared to be final; and in the event that such jury shall award a larger sum than may have been offered by such commissioners for the execution of this Act, the expense attending such jury shall be paid by the said commissioners out of the monies paid and transferred to the account of such road or bridge in manner herein directed; and if such jury shall award no more or any sum less than that offered by the said commissioners, the expense of such jury shall be defrayed and borne by the person or persons who shall not have agreed with such commissioners: Provided always, that after having offered to any proprietor or proprietors and occupier or occupiers of any lands such sum as such commissioners shall think reasonable, it shall and may be lawful for them, without further delay, to enter into and upon such lands for the purpose of this Act, and to proceed with the construction of such road or bridge therein.
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