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The Commissioners shall pay to Companies providing Funds the surplus Income, not exceeding 10 per Cent, on original Outlay.
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XX. And be it enacted, That when any Company of Persons as aforesaid formed for any of the Purposes aforesaid shall have provided and supplied to the said Commissioners Funds to defray the Costs and Expenses of the making or constructing of any such Reservoir or Embankment, or the making or improving any such Navigation, under the Provisions of the said recited Acts or this Act, and when such Works shall have been completed, and the Costs and Expenses thereof shall have been fully paid and satisfied to the said Commissioners, it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners and they are hereby required, after defraying the Cost of supporting, maintaining, and upholding the several Works of such Reservoir or Navigation, as the Case may be, which, under the Provisions of the said first-recited Act and this Act, the said Commissioners are authorized and required: to maintain, support, and uphold, to pay to the Company, or authorized Officer thereof, which shall have provided such Funds, the whole of the surplus Income which shall arise out of the Assessment, Rates, Taxes, Tolls, or Rents imposed or to be imposed by the said Commissioners from Time to Time on account of the original Construction or the maintaining the Works of such Reservoirs or Navigations respectively: Provided always, that when the Amount of such surplus Income shall exceed Ten Pounds per Centum per Annum on the total Amount declared by the Award of the said Commissioners to have been expended in or about the Construction of such Reservoir or Works, the Amount of such Assessment, Rates, Taxes, or Tolls shall be so reduced by the said Commissioners that the Amount of such surplus Income arising therefrom shall not exceed Ten Pounds per Centum per Annum as aforesaid.
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