# Bedford Level Act 1663, Section XXII: Manner of appointing Commissioners in the room of others dead, &c.


The Power and Authority of the said Commissioners to hear Complaints; to make Satisfaction to Persons whose Lands, &c. have been injured; and for Four Years, from 24th June 1663, to change and restore Parts unequally allotted and set forth.
And for the supplying the Number of the Comissioners of the said respective Countyes in case of Death or other Avoydance or Incapacity Bee it alsoe enacted That within three Monthes after such Death or Notice of such Avoydance or Incapacity of the remaining Comissioners of each respective County of which such Comissioners who dyed or became incapable were or the major Part of them shall from tyme to tyme nominate and appointe by Deed under their Hands and Seales to be enrolled in Chancery some others Person or Persons residing within the said County of which the said Comissioners who dyed or became incapable were to be Comissioners in the Place and Stead of him or them soe dying or becoming incapable which said Comissioners hereby Constituted or hereafter to be constituted in manner aforesaid or any seaven or more of them, be are and shall bee hereby authorised and impowred from tyme to tyme to heare and determine such Complaints Controversyes Differences and Greivenances as are in this Act expressed (relating to or concerning or occasioned by the Dreyning and Maintaining the said Great Levell) of any Parish or Towneship or of any Person or Persons aswell within or without the said Levell in such Manner as is herein after expressed And that the said Comissioners hereby constituted or hereafter to be constituted in manner aforesaid or any seaven or more of them shall from tyme to tyme have Power and Authority and are hereby required at or before the eight and twentieth Day of September which shall be in the Yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty and six to give or make Satisfaction out of the said nynety five thousand Acress to such Parish or Township Person or Persons whose Lands or Interest therein either within or without the said Levell shall after the first Day of May one thousand six hundred sixty and three be [made1] worse in Quallity or Condic[i]on by the aforesaid Dreyning or Workes, then they were before the undertaking the dreyning of the said Levell in the sixth Yeare of the Raigne of our late King Charles of blessed Memory and proportionable to the Losses the Owners of or Persons interessed in such Lands shall hereafter receive by reason of their Lands being made worse in Quallity or Condition by any such Workes and Dreyning as aforesaid and shall also have power at any tyme within foure Yeares from, the foure and twentieth Day of June in the Yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty and three to alter change and restore such Parts and Parcells of the said nynety five thousand Acres as shall upon Complaint be found and adjudged by the said Comissioners or any seaven or more of them to be unequally unduly or inconveniently sett forth by reason of any allotting either of greater Quantities or as belonging to other Countyes Parishes or Mannors or in more inconvenient Places then they were formerly allotted and sett out by a Law of Sewers made at St Ives the twelfth Day of October in the thirteenth Yeare of King Charles the First notwithstanding any Vesting of the said nynety five thousand Acres or any Part thereof in the Kings Majesty or in the said Governor Bayliffs and Cominalty or in any other Persons before mentioned or any Estates executed by them or any of them

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/15/17/section/XXII (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/bedford-level-act-1663/section-XXII
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