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Sedgmoor Drainage Act 1698
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VI.Commissioners to have Power to survey Cuts, Royns, &c. and to order the amending, &c. the same; the same not subject to Commissioners, or Commission of Sewers.
And be it further enacted That the said Commissioners as aforesaid or so many of them as have Power to act as aforesaid shall for the better cleansing of the said Cuts Brooks and Roynes and removing all Impediments and Annoyances in the same have the sole Rule Power and Authority to survey the said Cuts Brooks and Roynes and all the Banks thereof and all the Floodgates and other things upon the same and to make like Process to enquire thereof and to make such Orders and Decrees for altering amending abating or removing the same and for keeping the said Cuts Brooks and Roynes open as any Commissioners of Sewers by any Law Statute or Commission of Sewers are enabled to do in any Rivers or Places whatsoever and shall not be under the Survey or Orders of any Commissioners of Sewers nor subject to a Commission of Sewers or any Laws or Statutes made for Sewers Any Law or Statute to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding
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