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Bedford Level Act 1663
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XI.New works may be made by Corporation.
Throwing down, &c. any Works; Penalty.
And bee it further enacted That the said Corporation shall and may from tyme to tyme erect any new Workes within the said Great Levell or without the said Great Levell for conveying the Waters of the said Great Levell by convenient Outfalls to the Sea, so alwayes that if they cutt any severall Grounds they give full Recompence and Sattisfaction for the same in such manner as shall bee hereafter in this Act provided And if any Person or Persons shall cutt throw downe or destroy any of the said Workes made or to be made as aforesaid the Parties offending shall answer treble Damages to the said Corporation and Costs of Suite to be recovered in an Action of Tresspass to be brought by the said Corporation in any of his Majesties Courts of Record, And if such cutting throwing downe or destroying shall be malitiously done the same shall be punished as for the cutting the Podyke in Marsh Land,
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