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Section 17 Deposit of orders of division, exchange and partition in certain cases.

In any case of division of intermixed land, exchange, or partition, in which it shall appear to the commissioners from the number of persons interested in the subject matter of the division, exchange, or partition, or the nature of their interests, that the direction in the said recited Acts that a copy of the order under the seal of the commissioners shall be delivered to each of the parties upon whose application such order shall be made are inapplicable, it shall be lawful for them, instead of delivering a copy of such order to each of such parties, to direct by an order under their seal that copies shall be deposited in such and the same manner as copies of an award in the matter of an inclosure under the said Acts are directed to be deposited; and thereupon all the provisions in the Inclosure Act 1845, relating to the deposit, custody, and inspection of copies of such awards, and for the furnishing of copies of and extracts therefrom, shall be applicable to copies of such orders of division, exchange, and partition respectively: Provided always, that the commissioners shall, upon the request and at the cost of any person upon whose application such order was made, furnish him with a copy of the order sealed with their seal.