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Commissioners may sanction Alterations in certain Cases for reducing the Expence of Works.
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XXXI. And be it enacted, That where any Works shall have been commenced, or shall be carried on under this Act, according to any Plan, Specification, or Estimate which shall have been originally approved of by the Commissioners of Public Works, and it shall appear to the said Commissioners, from any Alteration of Circumstances of otherwise, that the Estimate or the Works originally proposed may be modified or altered by reducing the same, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners from Time to Time to alter or modify any such Plans, Specifications, of Estimates so originally approved of, by reducing the Proposed Works or the Estimates thereof, so always that the Works to bo carried on according to the modified Plans, Specifications, or Estimates shall in the Opinion of the Commissioners be of a Nature to effect a sufficient Improvement for the Purposes of this Act in the annual Value of the Lands; and also it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners, by any Order as aforesaid, without any previous Sanction of the Commissioners of the Treasury, to withhold any Instalment or Part of the Loan originally agreed to be made for the proposed Works to an Extent corresponding in their Judgment to the diminished Expenditure, and to diminish the Rent-charge which would Otherwise have become charged on the Lands in proportion to the diminished Advance so to be made.
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