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Drainage Boards to hold annual Meetings, and fix the Amount to be raised for Maintenance and Repairs for the ensuing Year.
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57. For the Purpose of effectually maintaining and upholding, in all Cases in which Works shall be executed under this Act, all and singular the Drains, Watercourses, Banks Sluices, Flood Gates, Tunnels, Water Gates, Buildings, Bridges, and other Works, and of supplying in such Cases all Things that may be required to work the same, and for the Payment of all necessary Expenses of Maintenance of Works of Drainage, Water Power, and all other Expenses incident thereto, and all Costs, Charges, and Liabilities from Time to Time properly incurred by them in the Execution of the Provisions of this Act, it shall be lawful for the Drainage Board, and they are hereby respectively authorized and required, once in every Year to meet in some convenient Place, and then to determine and fix the Sum of Money that shall be contributed and raised during the then ensuing Year for the Purposes of effecting, sustaining, supporting, and upholding all and singular the aforesaid Works, and for other the Purposes of this Act, and (having regard to and in the Proportions fixed for such Purpose by the said Award) to assess, rate, and tax the Proprietors of the said Land for and towards the Payment and Satisfaction of all such Sums of Money, Costs, Charges, and Expenses as may be required for the Purposes last aforesaid, and for the Payment and Satisfaction of any Sum of Money raised for such Purposes, and the Interest thereof; and the said several Sums so rated and assessed shall be charged on the Land so drained or improved, in preference to and with Priority over all Incumbrances thereon: Provided nevertheless, that any Quit or Crown Rent, or Rentcharge in lieu of Tithe, issuing thereout, and any Rentcharge under this Act, shall have Priority to such Sums of Money so rated or assessed; and the Drainage Board shall have the same Powers, Rights, and Privileges, by Entry or Mortgage, to enforce the Payment of all such last-mentioned Sums of Money, Costs, Charges, and Assessments as are herein-before given to them for the enforcing Payment of the Sums charged under the Award as aforesaid.
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