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Examination of petition by Commissioners.
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4.—(1) When the Commissioners have received pursuant to this Act either—
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(a) a copy of a resolution and petition from the secretary of the council of the county in which the lands proposed in such petition to be constituted a separate drainage district are wholly situate, or
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(b) copies of resolutions and petitions from the secretary of the council of every county in which any part of the lands proposed in such petition to be constituted a separate drainage district is situate,
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the Commissioners shall appoint a qualified engineer and, if they so consider necessary, also a person having experience in the valuation of land to examine and report to the Commissioners upon the proposals contained in such petition.
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(2) Every person appointed by the Commissioners to report to them under this section in respect of a petition shall be entitled at all reasonable times to enter with assistants and workmen upon the lands referred to in such petition and such other lands in the neighbourhood thereof as he shall think necessary and also any premises on any such lands and there to make such investigations and do such things as shall appear to him to be necessary for the purposes of his report.
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