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140 established, That Commissions of Sewers from time to time when need should require, should be directed to such substantial and indifferent persons as should be named by the Lord Chancellor of England, the Lord Treasurer, the Lord Privy Seal, and the two Chief Justices or three of them, whereof the Lord Chancellor to be one, authorising them or six of them to survey Walls Streams Dykes Banks Gutters Sewers Gouts Causeways Bridges Trenches Mills Mill-dams Floodgates Pounds Cocks Ebbing Weirs and other Lets and Nuisances, by reason of the outrageous course and rage of the Sea in and upon Marshes and other low Places; Which good Law doth not extend nor is not taken to give authority and power unto the said Commissioners of Sewers to reform the great hurt nuisance and losses that cometh and chanceth to the Queen's Highness and her Subjects, by reason of Sand rising out of the Sea and driven to Land by Storms and Winds, whereby much good Ground lying on the Sea coasts in sundry Places of this Realm and especially in the County of Glamorgan, be covered with such Sand rising out of the Sea that there cometh no Profit of the same, to the great loss of the Queen's Highness and her loving Subjects, and more is like to ensue if speedy Remedy be not therein provided: May it therefore please the Queen's Highness with the assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by authority of the same, Be It Enacted, That as well the said Act of Sewers made in the said xxiii.rd year, as all Commissions of Sewers hereafter to be directed according to the tenor of the said Act, may extend and give authority that the Commissioners therein named for the County of Glamorgan, or six of them, whereof three to be of the Quorum, shall by this Act and the said former Act and Commission to them directed, have full power and authority from time to time to make such Laws Provisions Ordinances Judgments and Decrees within the said County of Glamorgan, for the redress and saving the said Grounds from hurt or destruction by reason of the said Sands, as they might or may do by the said former Act and Commission, for the withstanding and avoiding of the outrageous course and rage of the Sea, or other Waters; Any Usage or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding.