Section 5 General limitation of actions under local and personal Acts.F1

And whereas divers Acts commonly called public local and personal, or local and personal Acts, and divers other Acts of a local and personal nature, contained clauses limiting the time within which actions may be brought for anything done in pursuance of the said Acts respectively: And whereas the periods of such limitations vary very much, and it is expedient that there should be one period of limitation only: the period within which any action may be brought for anything done under the authority or in pursuance of any such Act or Acts shall be two years, or in case of continuing damages then within one year after such damage shall have ceased; and that so much of any clause, provision, or enactment, by which any other time or period of limitation is appointed or enacted shall be and the same is hereby repealed.