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All persons interested in houses, &c. as herein are empowered to contract with said mayor, &c.
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LVI. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be lawful for all bodies politick or corporate, whether aggregate or sole, trustees or committees of lunaticks and ideots, executors, administrators, and guardians whatsoever, not only on behalf of themselves, their heirs and successors, but also for and on behalf of cestui qui trusts, whether infants or issue unborn, lunaticks, ideots, feme-coverts or other persons, and for all feme-coverts seized in their own right, and for all persons seized of, and interested in any houses, buildings, ground, or mill-courses, which by the said mayor, sheriffs, and commonalty have been, or shall be thought necessary to be purchased, and have been or shall be contracted for by the said mayor, sheriffs, and commonalty, for the purposes herein after mentioned, to sell and convey such houses, buildings, mill-courses, and ground, or any part thereof, to the said mayor, sheriffs, and commonalty, and all contracts, agreements, bargains, sales, and conveyances which have been, or shall be made to them by such persons, with respect to conveying, granting, or demising such houses, buildings, mill-courses, or grounds, or with respect to a liberty of cutting, making, or digging canals, reservoirs, trenches, or water-courses therein, or of repairing such canals, reservoirs, trenches, or water-courses, or of fixing or laying pipes in or through the said premisses, or of building any wall or walls, arch or arches to support any pipe or pipes, aqueduct or aqueducts for conveying water as aforesaid, or of making and erecting on the said grounds, any house or houses, building or buildings, edifice or edifices, or any work or works whatsoever, for the purpose of effectually carrying on the said water works shall be valid, not only to convey the estate and interest of the persons conveying, but also to convey all right, estate, interest, use, property, claim, and demand of their respective cestui que trusts, whether infants or issue unborn, lunaticks, ideots, feme-coverts, or other persons, and all claiming or to claim by, or under them, and all such persons so conveying, shall be indemnisied for what they shall do in pursuance of this act.
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