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Nothing in the Acts construed to render legal Works that would have been illegal if Acts had not passed.
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5. It is hereby declared, that as against any Person owning or interested in any Land or other Property situate beyond the Limits of the Jurisdiction of any Board established by the said first-recited Act, nothing contained in the said Act, or in any Provisional Order, or any Act confirming the same, shall be construed to render legal any Work executed or to be executed by such Board that would, if the said Acts had not been passed, have been illegal by reason of its injuriously affecting such Land or Property; and any Damages adjudged to be paid by the said Board to any Person as aforesaid shall be deemed to be Part of the Costs incurred by such Board in defending legal Proceedings instituted against them, and shall be defrayed in the Manner in which the said Costs are authorised to be defrayed by the said “Drainage and Improvement “of Lands Act (Ireland), 1863.”
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