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If Commissioners shall serve a Notice within Twelve Months that they will not require the Lands contained in any Award, the said Award, or a Part thereof, shall be void.
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XXIV. Provided always, and be it enacted, That if it shall seem expedient to the said Commissioners, at any Time or Times within Twelve Months from the passing of this Act in Cases of Awards heretofore made, or within Twelve Months after any future Award, Judgment or Contract shall be made, given, or entered into, not to take or injure the Whole or any Part of any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or other Matters or Things, named or described in any of the said Awards or in any such Judgment or Contract, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to serve a Notice upon or cause the same to be left at the usual Place or Places of Abode of the Person or Persons who are or appear by the said Awards, Judgments or Contracts to be interested in such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or other Matters or Things, stating that the same, or some and what Part thereof, will not be taken for or injured by any thing to be done under this Act; and immediately from and after the Service of such Notice, or if it shall appear to the said Commissioners that the same cannot be conveniently served as aforesaid, immediately from and after the Publication of such Notice in the Dublin Gazette, and in some Newspaper which shall be printed or circulated in the County in which such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or other Matters or Things, shall be situated, the Award, Judgment or Contract mentioned in the said Notice, or such Part thereof as shall relate to the Part not required to be taken or injured as aforesaid (at the Option of the said Commissioners), shall be utterly void and of no Effect, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever; and in case a Part only of any Award, Judgment or Contract shall become void as aforesaid, the said Commissioners shall fix and ascertain the Portion of the Sum mentioned in any such Judgment, Award, or Contract which should be deducted on account of the Part not required to be taken or injured, and, if necessary, apportion the Residue among the Persons entitled thereto; and the said Commissioners shall amend such Judgment, Award, or Contract accordingly, and enrol such amended Judgment or Award, and such amended Judgment, Award, or Contract shall have all the Force and Effect of any Judgment, Award, or Contract under this Act.
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