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Commissioners to consider applications and appoint surveyors to inspect proposed works, and ascertain correctness of estimate, &c.
Expenses to be paid by applicants.
Commissioners to decide on applications according to report of surveyors, &c.
and transmit copies of decisions. &c. to Treasury.
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16. The commissioners for the execution of this Act shall proceed with all convenient dispatch upon the receipt of all such applications as may be made to them from time to time under the provisions of this Act, to take the same into their consideration, and shall examine the statement, maps, plans, specifications, and estimates accompanying such applications, and shall, if they shall so think fit, direct and appoint some competent surveyor or surveyors to inspect the proposed work or works, and to examine into the accuracy of all such maps, plans, specifications, and estimates, and to investigate the general object, utility, and nature of the proposed work or works, and report thereon to the said commissioners; and the expense attendant upon such application, inspection and examination, investigation and report, shall be defrayed by the parties making the application; and such parties shall, when thereunto required, in the first place deposit, as the said commissioners shall direct, a sum adequate to defray such expense; and the said commissioners for the execution of this Act shall, upon such report, and after good advice, information, and deliberation, having due regard to the intent and objects of this Act, and the several circumstances herein-before specified as points to be noted in the classification of applications under this Act, decide upon each application, and whether the same be in their judgment proper to be complied with or rejected, and whether wholly or in part, and what (if any) sum of money it might be proper to advance, and when and how payable, and at what rate of interest, subject to the regulations herein-after contained in respect thereof, the same ought to be advanced, and what security to be required, and, in cases where they shall so think fit, whether any and what modification of such application might be proper to be complied with; and the said commissioners for the execution of this Act shall transmit a copy of such their decision to the Treasury, together with an extract or extracts of so much of the entries in the book which they are herein-before directed to prepare and keep as may refer or belong to the application on which such decision is made, so as to show fully the grounds and reasons therefor.
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