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Commissioners, &c. may enter Lands for the Purposes of Survey or Inquiry.
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IX. And be it enacted, That, for the Purposes of any Inspection, Survey or Inquiry directed or necessary under any of the Provisions of this Act, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners, by themselves, their Surveyors, Engineers, Agents, Officers, and Workmen, to enter upon any Lands or Premises in any District within which it is proposed that any Works shall be executed under this Act, or any Lands and Premises adjoining thereto, and, if necessary, to dig or bore therein, and also to examine any Weir, Sluice, or Floodgate erected in or upon any River or Stream which it shall seem to them to be necessary to examine, and to open or raise any such Floodgate or Sluice for the Purposes of any such Inquiry, and to make any Soundings or bore the Bed or Channel of any Part of such River, or any Mill Course connected therewith, making reasonable Compensation for any Damage done thereby; and the Amount of such Compensation shall be ascertained by Two or more Justices of the Peace at Petty Sessions in or for the District wherein any such Damage shall be committed, and they are hereby authorised and required to inquire into and determine same, and for that Purpose to examine, on Oath, or otherwise, all such Witnesses as shall be produced before them, and to make such Order as to them shall seem just for the Payment of the Amount of such Damage by the Commissioners to the Party aggrieved, which said Order shall be final and conclusive: Provided always, that the said Commissioners, their Surveyors, Engineers, Agents, Officers, and Workmen, may enter upon such Lands as aforesaid, and do all necessary Matters and Things by this Act authorized previously to or pending the Decision of such Justices.
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