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Sedgmoor Drainage Act 1698

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Proviso for Manor of Compton Dundo.

X1 And whereas the Mannor of Compton Dundo in the said County of Somerset belonging to Thomas Strange ways Esquire and his Heires is scituate at or near the East end of the said Moor called Sedgmore and is so remote from the Passage Watercourse or Draine from Rowing Lake to the River Perrat aforesaid by this Act intended to be opened and cleansed and from all Cuts Drains and Roynes which shall or may be made westward of the Rowing Lake aforesaid that the said Mannor or any part thereof cannot receive any Benefit or Advantage thereby Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid That nothing herein contained shall extend or be construed to extend to the said Mannor of Compton Dundo whereby to charge or subject the same or any Part or Parcell thereof to or with the Payment of any Rate or Assessment or to any Judgment Sentence Decree or Determination to be made by the Authority of this Act for touching or concerning the opening or cleansing the said Passage Watercourse or Draine or for the makeing any New Cut or Cuts Draine or Draines above Westward of the same.

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X1The following Clauses are annexed to the Original Act in Three separate Schedules.

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