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 ii6 C. 33. Anno tricefimo Georgii IL A. D. 1757. CommilTioners nor to prejudice the Navigation of thi Ouze. Limitation of Actions. General IfTue. Treble Coftj, Publick Att. Act ; and the PeiTon or Perfons to whom fuch Warrant or Warrants fliall be direfted, fhall and mav levy the Money fo expended, by Diftrefs and Sale of the fame Goods and Chattels, together with all incident Charges, in the fame Manner as the faid Rates and Taxes are herein before diredled to be levied rendering the Overplus, if any be, to the Owner or Owners thereof. XIX. Provided alfo, and it is hereby further enacted and declared, That this A6t, or any Thing here- in contained, {hall not extend, or be conrtrued to extend, to irapower the faid CommilTioners appointed' for putting this A6t in Execution, to erect or fet up any Sluice or Dam acrofs the River Ouze, or to do or perform any other Work or Works which may prejudice the Navigation of the faid River Ouzs or obftru(St or hinder any Waters from falling down the faid River, through Lynn Channel to Sea. XX. And be it further enaifted by the Authority aforefaid, That if any Action, Suit or Information fliall be commenced or profecuted againft any Perfon or Perfons for any Thing done or to be done in purfuance of this Act, and in the Execution of any of the Powers and Authorities hereby given, every fuch Action or Suit fhall be commenced within fix Calendar Months next after the Fact committed, and not afterwards ; and flKill be laid and brought in the faid County oi Nor-folk, and not elfewhere ; and the Defendant or Defendants in fuch A<£tions or Suits fhall and may plead the General IfTue ; and if in Re- plevin, may juitify and avow by Virtue of this Act, as Perfons a£ting by Authority of CommifTtoners of Sewers are enabled to do, and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence, without fpccially pleading the fame, other than as aforefaid, at any Trial to be had thereupon ; and that the fame was done in Purfuance and by the Authority of the faid A6t ; and if the fame {hall appear to have been lb done; or if any fuch A6tion or Suit fhall be brought after the Time before limited for bringing the fame or Ihall be brought or laid in any other County ; then the Jury fhall find for the Defendant or Defen- dants, Avowant or Avowants ; or if the PlaintifF fliall become nonfuit, or forbear Profecution, or dif- continue hi«, her or their Suit or Suits ; or if any Verdidt fliall pafs againil him, her or them; or Judg- ment be given againft him, her or them, upon a Demurrer, or otherwife ; then and in any of the faid Cafes, the Defendant or Defendants, Avowant or Avowants flball recover treble Cofts, for which he, flie or they fliall have like Remedy, as where Cofts by Law are awarded. XXI. And be it further enaded by the Authority aforefaid. That this A6t fliall be deemed, taken and allowed to be a publick A£t; and all Judges, Juftices and other Perfons are hereby required to take Nc- tice thereof as fuch_, without fpecially pleading the fame. CAP. XXXIII. An A(5t for draining and preferving certain Fen Lands and Low Grounds in the feveral Pa- riflies of Ramfe) Bury, Wiftow, PFarboys, Farceiti, Standground and Water-newton in the County of Huntingdon^ and of Doddington in the IJle of Ely and County of Camhidge. WHEREAS certain Fen Lands and Low Groimds in the feveral Townfliips or Pariflies of Ra?nfcy, Bury, IViJlow, IVarboys, Farceitt, Slandgrotmd d.nd If^atcr-newton the County of Huft^ t'nigdon, and alfo in the Townfliip or Parifli of Doddington in the IJlc of Ely and County of Cawhridtrcy containing in the Whole, by Eftimation, nine'thoufand one hundred and eighteen Acres, or there- abouts, and which are bounded and dcfcribed ai follows ; that is to fay, Beginning at the South Bank of the Forty Foot River, and from thence along by the Side of the Outring Ditch of a Piece of Ground of IVilliam Chandler, which divides that and a Muchwood Part, called A Thi/Ile Green Lot and from thence to the Farm-yard of Coulfon Fellows Efquire, now in the Occupation oi Abraham Staff'owth; and from thence along the Skirts of the Highlands belonging to the faid Farm ; and from thence along the Skirts of the Highlands of JVorlick Farm ; and from thence along by the Skirts of the Highlands of another Farm of the faid Cotdfon Felloives, in the Tenure or Occupation oi Elizabeth Salmon, Widow; and from thence along by the Skirts of the Highlands of one other Farm of the faid Coulfon Felloives, now in the Oc- cupation of Heyirj Broivn; and from thence along the Skirts of the Highlands adjoining to certain Fen Grounds called The Hollow Head and from thence along the Highland Skirts of a Ground called TL' Oak- tree Ground, to the Skirts of the Highlands of Sirtion Earl of Harcourt, to the Outring Ditch that divides the Pariflies of Ranfey and Bury, to the Outring Dike of a Stay Fen Lot belonging to Richard Batfon, which divides that Lot from a Lot of "John Ponlter, Yeoman, to a certain Drove called Lo>7^ Drove, and acrof; the faid Drove to the Outring Dike of a Lot of Helen Smith, Widow, which divides a Lot of the faid John Poultcr and a Lot of Ann Sibley, Widow, to the Outring Dike of Jonathan Nichdls Gen- tleman, and along the faid Dike to the North End of a Piece of Land called IVillow-row, belonging to the fjid John Poultcr, and along the Eaft and South Dike of the faid JVillow-row to a Drove called Jack's Corner Drove, and along the faid Drove to a twenty Acre Piece, of Sir John Baj-naid Bd.ronety and along the Divifion Dike, which divides a Lot of Stephen Gofslin, Yeoman, and a Lot of the faid Sir John Barnard, to a Divifion Dike, which in Part divides the faid twenty Acres and Vicars Clofes, and thence acrofs a Drain, which in Part divides the faid Vicar s Clofes and Jack's Corner, the Lands of the faid Sir John Barnard, to a Dike which divides the Highlands of the faid Vicar's Clofes from the fenny Parts thereof, to a If'l/hw Fen Lot called Durrani's Lot, from thence to a Drove called Dttrrant's Drovd to llljhvj Fen Long Drove, and from thence to JVijlow Stray Failure Drove, and along the fame ta " '^ ■ ' ' ...... .^.- . ....... ,. the Pa- JVi/tcw Stray Pajlure, and along the Highland Skirts thereof to the Divifion Dike which divides th lidx of IVarboys and the faid fVijiovj Stray Pajhire-, and the Land Skirts of Waiboys Stray Po/lure next
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