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Provision as to damage caused to banks of drains by cattle.
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8. From and after the passing of this Act, in all cases where the banks of any drain or river made, opened, or widened, deepened, or improved under the provisions of the aforesaid Acts of Parliament or of an Act passed in the session held in the fifth and sixth years of Her Majesty, chapter eighty-nine, and the Acts amending the same, shall be broken down or damaged by cattle grazing or being upon any lands abutting upon any such drain or river as aforesaid, by reason whereof such drain or river shall be dammed up or obstructed, the person or persons occupying the lands at the time of such damage shall be deemed to have committed an offence within the meaning of the twenty-third section of the “Drainage Maintenance Act, 1866.”
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