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Commissioners to purchase lands intersected.
Lands so purchased may be sold.
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77. If in making any new road or bridge, or the approaches thereto, any piece or parcel or parcels of land shall be cut through and divided, so that what be left on either side of such road or approaches shall be less than one acre in quantity, or less than twenty yards in breadth through the whole length thereof, and if the owner or owners, proprietor or proprietors, of any such piece or parcel of land shall not have any other land adjoining thereto, then the said commissioners shall and they are hereby authorized and required to take and purchase such pieces or parcels of land, and to pay for the same to the owner or owners, proprietor or proprietors thereof, after the same rate and in the same manner as they shall pay or be adjudged to pay for the land adjoining thereto which shall be taken and used by them for the purposes aforesaid, provided the owner or owners, proprietor or proprietors, or the person or persons entitled to the possession or to the rents and profits of such lands respectively, shall, by writing under his, her, or their hand or hands delivered to the said commissioners, or their surveyor or engineer or other known agent or person employed in the construction of such road or bridge, within one month next after payment and satisfaction shall be made for the other land so taken and used by the said commissioners for the purposes aforesaid, require the said commissioners to take and purchase the same; and for that purpose it shall be lawful for all such owners of or persons interested in such piece or parcel of land to sell the same to the said commissioners, and to convey the same to such person or persons as they shall appoint, notwithstanding they may be under any such disability or incapacity as herein-before mentioned with respect to lands to be taken or used for executing the several powers of this Act; and the said commissioners are hereby authorized and empowered to sell such lands which they shall be so required to take and purchase as aforesaid, and cause the same to be conveyed to any person or persons whomsoever who shall be willing to purchase the same; and any profit or loss arising from such sale and resale shall be respectively placed to the credit or debit of the account which the said commissioners have been herein-before directed to open on making any grant of money under this Act.
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