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Bedford Level Act 1663
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XLVII.How far Breaches in Banks, Sluices, &c. to be made good.
In what Case Corporation not compelled to give Recompense.
And bee it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Breaches happen in any of the Bankes, Sasses, Sluces, Tunnells, or other Workes, within the said Great Levell, or in any the Workes, made without the said Great Levell, for carrying the Waters of the said Great Levell, to their Outfall at Sea, by reason of some inevitable Accidents, the same shalbee repayred and made good in convenient tyme, by and at the Charges of the said Corporation, and their Successors, but no other Charge shall bee layd upon the said Corporation or their Successors for or in respect of such Breaches, nor for or in respect of any Breaches, that have happened heretofore in any of the said Bankes, Sasses, Sluces, or other Workes, nor shall the said Corporation bee inforced, to give to any other Person any Recompence for any Losse or Damage, which hath or shall happen, by reason of their making necessary and sufficient Bankes, for the defending of the said Levell, from being over flowne, and for the leading of the Waters of the said Levell in their Channells, as now they runne, unto their Outfall at Sea.
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