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Commissioners to sell Lands and Mills, making first Offers to the Proprietors of the Estate.
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LXXXVII. And be it enacted, That the said Commissioners shall from Time to Time sell and dispose of all or any Part of the Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, Mills, Buildings, or Erections, Weirs, Mill Dams, Watercourses, and Mill Sites, which shall become vested in them under any of the Provisions aforesaid, and which shall not be required to be retained for any of the Purposes of this Act; and the Produce of such Sale or other Disposition shall be applied in Payment of the Expences or Debts contracted on account of the Expences of the Works executed in the District in which such Lands so sold or disposed of shall be situate: Provided always, that the said Commissioners, before they shall sell or dispose of any of the Premises aforesaid shall first offer the same to the Person to whose Estate the same originally belonged, and then to the Person whose Estate shall adjoin thereto, and such Premises shall not be sold to any other Person at such Price as the Persons so entitled to a Preference shall be willing to give for them, or at any lower Price; and if each such Person shall refuse to purchase the same, an Affidavit being made and sworn before a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery, and filed in the said Court, that such Offer was made by or on behalf of said Commissioners, and that such offer was refused by the Person to whom the same was made, such Affidavit shall, in all Courts whatsoever be sufficient Evidence and Proof that such Offer was made and refused.
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