Where any award already made and executed, or hereafter to be made and executed, in pursuance of any local Act of inclosure, or in pursuance of the M1Inclosure Act 1836 shall not have duly distinguished the several tenures of all the lands thereby awarded or allotted, or of any other lands of which the tenure ought to have been distinguished in or by such award, or the different estates or titles for or under which any lands therein mentioned should be held, or shall not have duly distinguished the lands which after such award should remain subject to all or any tithes, and the lands which should be discharged from all or any tithes, or where by any such award an aggregate allotment shall have been set out and awarded in any case in which several and distinct allotments ought to have been set out and awarded, in every such case, and in every other case in which it shall appear to the commissioners that inconvenience shall have arisen from inaccuracy, confusion, or omission in any such award, it shall be lawful for the commissioners, upon the application in writing of any person interested in the lands to which such award may relate, or of any person prejudiced by the inaccuracy, confusion, or omission in such award, to make such inquiries and take such evidence, by themselves or by an assistant commissioner, as they shall think fit, and by an order under their hands and seal to amend such award, and to distinguish the several tenures of the lands thereby allotted and awarded, and the different estates or titles for or under which the same should be held, and to distinguish the lands which should be discharged from all or any tithes, and the lands which should remain subject to all or any tithes, and to subdivide aggregate allotments into separate allotments, and to distinguish the tenures or titles thereof, or the lands or rights in respect of which they were respectively made, and generally to make or give such declarations or directions as may appear necessary to supply any omission and rectify any inaccuracy or confusion in such award; and such order of the commissioners shall have the same force and effect as if the allotments, directions, and declarations therein contained had been duly made and contained in the original award, in addition, or, as the case may require, in substitution for the parts thereof to which such amendments may relate; and all expences with reference to such order as last aforesaid, and of and consequent upon all inquiries in relation thereto, or to any proposed amendment of any such award, shall be borne by the persons on whose application such order shall be made or such inquiries undertaken.
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