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Power to execute the Works.
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18. It stall be lawful for the said Drainage Board to contract with or employ such Contractors, Surveyors, Agents, and Workmen as they shall think fit, and to make and execute all such Works as shall be described in the Maps, Plans, and Sections herein-before mentioned, or such Deviations therefrom, or such other Works as the Commissioners shall from Time to Time deem necessary for effecting all or any of the Purposes of this Act, and for such Purposes to enter into and upon any Land whatsoever, and to widen, straighten, deepen, divert, scour, or cleanse any River, Stream, Drain, Brook, Pool, or Watercourse running through such Land, and to make, open, and cut in or upon the same any new Watercourse, Side Cut, Ditch, or Drain, and to alter or remove any Bank, Sluice, Flood Gate, Drain, or Tunnel, and to make or erect any Bank, Sluice, Flood Gate, Drain, Tunnel, or other Works necessary for Drainage, and to dam, bar, and stop up with any Weir or Dam any River, Brook, Pool, Stream, or Watercourse, and also to make upon such Land any Embankment against the Sea or any Lake, River, Stream, or Watercourse, and to put and place on such Land any Piles, Stones, Earth, Soil, or other Materials for the Purposes of the Works, or for the more effectual Protection or Defence of such Land, or for the better conveying the Waters from the said Land into the Sea or into any River, Lake, Stream, or Watercourse, and also to form any Dam, and to erect any Sluice, Hatch, or Lock, in any River, Lake, Stream, or Watercourse, for the Purpose of supplying Water to any Mill or Factory, or of keeping back a Sufficiency of Water for the Use of Cattle, or for the Irrigation or Warping of Lands where such Irrigation or Warping shall be wanted, and shall be a beneficial Manurance to such Lands, and also to stop up or divert any Road or remove any Bridge, and to make any new Road or Bridge, and also from Time to Time to repair, alter, or remove any Sluice, Flood Gate, Hatch, Tunnel, Road, or other Works now made or to be made as aforesaid, and to divert, deepen, widen, cleanse, and scour any Ditch, Drain, Watercourse, or Side Cut now existing or to be made as aforesaid, and also to do all such Things and execute all such Works as may be necessary or convenient for the Purposes of this Act, and be sanctioned by the Commissioners, making Compensation, to be ascertained in the Manner herein-after mentioned, to all Persons for any Damage occasioned to them by the Exercise of any such Powers.
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