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Such Notice shall require the Proprietors of Lands to be drained to furnish their Assent or Dissent.
If the Proprietors of more than Half of the Lands assent, a final Notice may be given.
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XLVIII. And be it enacted, That in and by such Notice as last aforesaid all Proprietors (as defined under the said first-recited Act) of such Lands so to be drained or improved shall be called upon to furnish in Writing, either by themselves or their known Agents, to the said Commissioners at their Office in Dublin, or to some Person by the said Commissioners authorized, their Assent to or Dissent from the proposed Drainage or Improvement on or before a Day to be named in such Notice, not less than Three Weeks from the Day on which such Report shall have been lodged as aforesaid; and if before or at the Expiration of the said Period the said Commissioners shall ascertain that the Assent in Writing of the Proprietors (as defined in the said first-recited Act, with the Consent of the Tenants, if any, as by the said Act required in that Behalf,) of more than One Half in Extent of the Lands so to be drained or improved shall have been given to the said proposed Works, the said Commissioners, if they shall so think fit, shall cause to be published in the Dublin Gazette, and also in the Manner herein as to such Notice last aforesaid directed, a final Notice, stating that all the Preliminaries required by the Provisions for summary Proceedings under this Act have been complied with, which Proceedings shall be binding and conclusive upon all Parties and Persons whomsoever; and Proof of the Publication of such final Notice as aforesaid shall be sufficient Evidence that such final Notice was duly given, and that all the Requisitions of this Act in relation thereto were complied with: Provided always, that in any Case in which the said Commissioners shall be of opinion that such Period of Three Weeks last aforesaid limited for furnishing the Assents or Dissents of Parties as to any such Works is, under the particular Circumstances of such Case, insufficient, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners, if they shall so think fit, to extend such Period for an additional Period of Two Weeks, so that such additional Period shall not in any Case extend beyond the First Day of August in the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.
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