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The Commissioners may cause a preliminary Investigation to be made in a summary Way, and obtain a Report.
A Copy of the Report of their Opinion thereon to be Lodged for Inspection, and Notice thereof to be given.
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XLVII. And be it enacted, That for the Purpose of such summary Proceedings, when any such Memorial as last aforesaid shall be presented, or any Memorial for any such Purposes, under the said first-recited Act, shall, before the passing of this Act, have been presented to the said Commissioners, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to cause such preliminary Examination and Inquiry as they shall think fit to be made by some Engineer, Surveyor, or other competent Person, or to examine and adopt any Survey or Report which shall have been made, and cause to be ascertained in a summary Way the Extent of the Lands to be drained or improved, the probable Cost and Expences of such Drainage or Improvement, and the probable Benefit to result therefrom, together with the Names of the reputed Proprietors of the Lands to be so drained or improved; and if upon any such Report it shall appear to the Satisfaction of the said Commissioners that the Benefit to result from such Works would be commensurate with the Amount of the estimated Cost of the Works, and incidental Expences connected therewith, they shall cause a Copy or Copies of such Report, with their Opinion thereon, to be lodged at some Place in or near such Lands for public Inspection for the Space of Two Weeks, and cause Notice thereof, and of the Place or Places at which such Copy or Copies of such Report shall have been lodged, to be given in any Newspaper circulating in the County or Place in which such Lands shall be situate, and to be posted on the usual Places for posting Grand Jury Notices in or near the said Lands, and otherwise as they shall think fit.
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