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Commissioners may appoint a Person to inspect any Land or River, and to report thereon.
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VIII. And be it enacted, That whenever any such Memorial as aforesaid shall be presented to the said Commissioners, and the Sum required to be deposited with them for the Purpose of making such Inquiry, Inspection and Report as aforesaid shall have been deposited accordingly, the said Commissioners shall direct some Engineer or other competent Person to inspect, and, if the said Commissioners shall deem fit, to make a Survey of the Land or River referred to in such Memorial, or of any other Land or River of which they shall deem it necessary for the Purposes of such Memorial that a Survey should be made, or to examine any Survey already made thereof, which the said Commissioners shall think sufficient, and to inquire into and ascertain the present State of such Land or River, and the Capacity of the said Land for Improvement by Drainage, and the probable Increase in the Value of such Land when so improved, and also the Capacity of such River or Improvement, and further to ascertain whether any existing Navigation would be injured by the Works necessary to be executed for Drainage, or whether any useful or necessary Navigation would or might be effected or improved either immediately or remotely in conjunction therewith, and whether it may be necessary or expedient for the Execution of such Works to purchase, remove, injure, or alter any Weir, Dam, Mill, Factory, or other Building or Property, and whether any and what Improvement would or might be effected in any existing Water Power, and whether any new Water Power would or might be created in conjunction with such Works, and whether, for the Prevention of sudden Floods, and the Preservation of Surplus Water for the Supply of Towns, Mills, Factories, or Navigation, or for the Irrigation of or the warping or depositing Soil by means of Water on any Lands where same shall be a beneficial Manurance, that any and what Reservoirs should be constructed; and such Engineer or other Person shall report to the said Commissioners the Nature, Extent, and probable Expence of effecting the Purposes aforesaid, and the Lands, Mills, Factories, Weirs, and other Property to be affected by such Works, and the Benefit or Injury likely to arise to such Lands, Mills, Factories, Weirs, and other Property respectively from such Works, and the several Matters aforesaid.
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