Sedgmoor Drainage Act 1698

III.Seven Commissioners may assess Parishes and Places adjacent, for the Purposes aforesaid.

And it is also hereby further enacted That for the raising such Sum or Sums of Money wherewith to defray the Charges of draining the said Moor and for the cutting new or larger Brooks Roynes Passages or Trenches and opening the Watercourse now filled up and obstructed as aforesaid and satisfying all Persons such Sums of Money as shall be agreed or adjudged to be given and paid to them for the Loss or Damage by them respectively sustained as aforesaid and all other Incident Costs Charges and Expences about the same it shall and may be lawfull for the said Commissioners or any Seaven or more of them to assesse and rate all such Persons Places and Parishes adjacent to and immediately receiving or to receive any Benefit by the said Cut to be made from the Rowing Lake to the River of Perrat or by the new or larger Brooks Roynes Passages or Trenches to be cut and made as aforesaid