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Definitions. 26 & 27 Vict. c. 88.
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12. In this Act the expression “Board of Works” means the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland; the expression “Drainage Acts” means the Drainage and Improvement of Lands (Ireland) Act, 1863, and the Acts amending the same, including this Act; and the expression “maintenance rate” means the sum or which a drainage board assesses rates and taxes the proprietors of the land, for the purpose of maintaining and upholding all and singular the drains, water-courses, banks, sluices, flood-gates, funnels water-gates, buildings, bridges, and other works, and of supplying all things that may be required to work the same, and or the payment of all necessary expenses of maintenance of works of drainage, water-power, and all other expenses incident thereto, and all costs, charges, and liabilities from time to time properly incurred by them an the execution of the Drainage Acts or any other Act relating to drainage of land in Ireland.
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