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Penalty on Officers refusing to deliver up Documents.
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LXI. And be it enacted, That if any Engineer, Surveyor, Agent, Officer, or Servant employed by the said Commissioners in any Manner relating to Proceedings under the Provisions of this Act shall refuse or neglect, after Seven Days Notice in Writing for that Purpose, to deliver up to the said Commissioners, or to any Person authorized by them for that Purpose, any Survey, Map, Plan, Estimate, Specification, Book, Paper, or Document belonging to the said Commissioners, or to any Owner of Lands proposed to be improved under the Provisions of this Act, in the Possession or Custody of such Engineer, Surveyor, Agent, Officer, or Servant, any such Person shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay a Sum not exceeding Twenty Pounds, to be recovered in a summary Way before any Two Justices at Petty Sessions, and levied under the Warrant of such Justices by Distress and Sale of the Goods of the Person so refusing or neglecting; and it shall be lawful for such Justices to order any Constable, with proper Assistance, to search for and take possession of any such Survey, Map, Plan, Estimate, Specification, Book, Paper, or Document, and to deliver the same to the said Commissioners, or any Person authorized by them to receive the same.
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