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Commissioners may cause Surveys, &c. to be made.
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XII. And be it enacted, That if in the last-mentioned Case the said Commissioners shall deem it expedient, they shall, upon receiving such Deposit as aforesaid of a Sum sufficient for the Purpose, cause further Surveys to be made of the Land proposed to be drained or improved, and of the River proposed to be improved in connexion with such Drainage, and proper Schedules, Maps, Plans, and Sections to be prepared, describing the District within which it is proposed to put the Powers of this Act into execution, and showing the Land to be drained or improved by such Drainage, and showing in One or more of such Schedules the reputed Proprietors, Lessees, and Occupiers thereof, and the Lands or other Property required to be taken for or likely to be injured by the proposed Works, and the reputed Proprietors, Lessees, and Occupiers thereof, and showing, so far as may be possible, the Line, Course, and Situation of the Streams, Watercourses, Drains, Rivers, and Lakes intended to be cleared, scoured, or embanked, and the requisite Variations, Divisions, Abridgements, or Enlargements of the same, and the Direction and Extent of any new Drains, Watercourses, or Works necessary to be made, and the Land in and through which the same are to be made; and they shall also cause to be made an Estimate of the Expence of the proposed Works, including in such Estimate the probable Amount of Money payable as Compensation in respect of any Injury likely to be occasioned by such Works, or for the Purchase of any Land, Houses, Fisheries, Weirs, Mills, or other Property required to be taken or purchased for the Purpose of such Works, and other miscellaneous Expences likely to be incurred; and they shall also cause the then actual Value of the Land to be drained or improved by Drainage by the proposed Works to be ascertained, in such Manner and by such Means as they shall think proper, and the probable Increase in such Value by the proposed Works; and such actual Value and estimated Increase shall be stated in the said Schedules, and also the Proportions in which such Lands shall contribute towards the Payment of the Costs of the proposed Works, specifying such Proportions in the Ratio of the estimated Increase in the Value of such Lands; and in every Case where the Navigation of any such River, or such Part of a River, as aforesaid, shall be proposed to be improved, every such Estimate shall also and separately specify the Amount of the Costs which will be incurred in the Execution of such of the proposed Works as shall be necessary for the Improvement of the Navigation of such River, or Part of a River, and the District likely to be benefited by such Improvement, and the Baronies, Half-Baronies, or Townlands in such District, and the Proportions in which such Baronies, Half Baronies, or Townlands, whether situate in One or more Counties, are likely to be benefited, and should contribute to such Costs; and the said Commissioners shall cause to be made Copies of the said Schedules, Maps, Plans, Sections, and Estimate, and shall cause such Copies to be deposited in such convenient Place or Places as the said Commissioners shall think proper, within or in the immediate Vicinity of the District in which such Land or River, or Part of a River, shall be situate, there to remain open for public Inspection at all reasonable Times for Six successive Weeks, which Period may be reckoned concurrently with the Period herein before limited for the Publication of the Report before mentioned; and all Persons shall be at liberty to inspect and make Copies of or Extracts from the said Schedules, Maps, Plans, Sections, and Estimate, and Copies thereof or Extracts therefrom shall be made for any Person who shall require the same, on Payment of the Costs of making such Copies or Extracts.
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