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Commissioners may cause Inspection of Works and make the necessary Repairs.
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19. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners from Time to Time to cause Inspection to be made by some Engineer or other competent Person of the Works executed in any District under the said Acts or any of them; and if it shall appear from the Report of the Person so appointed that the Works in any such District have not been kept and maintained in good Order, Repair, and Condition, so as in the Opinion of the Commissioners to be fit and proper for their intended Purposes, or that any sudden Breach or Damage has occurred to any Embankment or other Work in any such District, it shall be lawful for the Commissioners to cause a Notice, addressed to the Trustees or Drainage Board of such District, to be served or published as herein-before is directed, calling upon them to execute such Works as in the Opinion of the Commissioners the Circumstances of the Case shall render necessary (and the Nature of which shall be stated in such Notice) within, such Period as shall be therein mentioned, and informing them that in default thereof such Works will be executed by the Commissioners pursuant to the Provisions of this Act; and in case such Works shall not be executed in accordance with the Terms of such Notice, it shall be lawful for the Commissioners, by and with the Sanction of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, to make and execute all such Works as they may consider necessary and proper for the due and efficient Repair of such Works, and for the Purposes aforesaid the Commissioners shall possess all the Powers so herein-before expressed to be conferred upon the Trustees of any Drainage District or any Drainage Board as aforesaid; and the Commissioners, after the Completion of such Works, shall make an Order declaring the Amount, expended by them in such last-mentioned Works, including the Expense of any preliminary Survey as aforesaid, and of any Superintendent appointed by the Commissioners, and declaring that such Amount, together with Interest thereon from such Date as in such Order shall be mentioned, shall be charged on the Lands and Proprietors in such Districts, and such Order shall have the like Effect in all respects, and all the Provisions of this Act shall apply thereto in like Manner, as if the same were an Order of the Commissioners made in pursuance of the Provisions herein-before contained, and called the Charging Order.
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