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complete the said drain or ditch so to be opened and
cut in virtue of this act; and also from time to time
to repair, cleanse and keep open and in good order
the said ditch or drain, at the expence of the said
proprietors in the same proportion that the expenses
of cutting and opening the said ditch or drain are to
be paid; and for the purpose of cutting and opening
the said ditch or drain in the first instance, and of
repairing and cleansing the same when cut and open-
ed, the said directors or any three of them, are here-
by authorised to apportion what they may conceive
the expense thereof will amount to, and demand and
receive such proportions respectively by suit or oth-
erwise from the. said proprietors, before or at any
time after the commencement of the said work, or
after the same is finished: Provided always, That
inasmuch as it may be inconvenient for some of the
proprietors, through whose land the said ditch or
drain shall pass, to satisfy and answer all the expen-
ses of cutting and opening the said ditch or drain at
one time, the said directors or any three of them shall
make an estimate of the expense of cutting the said
ditch or drain through that part of the branch or
swamp in which said ditch or drain shall pass, and
apportion the same as above directed; and that the
same be paid by the proprietors respectively of that
particular part of the said branch, unto the said direc-
tors, at three annual payments, one third of which to
be discharged on or before the first day of March
eighteen hundred and fourteen, one third on or be-
fore the first day of March eighteen hundred and
fifteen, and the remaining third on or before the first
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ay of March eighteen hundred and sixteen.
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case of
death or resignation, refusal or disqualification to act.
of the persons chosen directors at any time hereafter,
it shall and may be lawful for the said other direc-
tors to meet as soon as may be thereafter, at their
place of meeting as aforesaid, to choose a person in
his stead to act as director till the next annual meet-
ing of the said proprietors, and if the directors
therein disagree in such choice, they shall determine-
the same by drawing lots for the persons put in nomi-
nation, and the person in whose favour the matter
shall be so determined, shall be and he is hereby de-
clared the director to all intents and purposes until
the succeeding annual election.
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Death &c. of
directors.
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