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plan are sent, are to be called upon to state within twenty-eight
days whether they intend to do the works to the Metropolitan
Board's satisfaction, or what objections they have. Any objections
are to be considered and determined on by the Metropolitan Board.
If within twenty-eight days after the receipt of the notice and
plan, or of the order made by the Metropolitan Board after the
consideration of any objections, the parties liable neglect to begin
the works, or to give notice that they intend to do them, or if they
fail to cany on or complete the works when begun, with all reasonable
despatch and to the Metropolitan Board's satisfaction, then
that Board may cause the works to be done, and may enter upon
the premises and do everything necessary for the purpose, recovering
the expenses from the parties liable.
The bodies and persons required to raise the banks or other
defences are also required to maintain and repair them, and if
any alteration is made to any bank without authority, the person
making the alteration is liable to a penalty.
Any person claiming compensation for damage caused by any
works under the Act, or in respect of any lands, or any interest in
lands, taken or used for the purposes of, or injuriously affected by,
works under the Act, may claim such compensation from the
Metropolitan Board; and if the claimant and that Board do not
agree, then the validity of the claim and the amount of compensation
payable, may, on the application of either party, be determined
by a standing Arbitrator, to be appointed by the Secretary of State :
such standing Arbitrator to be appointed before the 31 st December,
1879, and to hold his office for three years. At the end of every
three years a fresh appointment is to be made.
Where any sum is payable to the Metropolitan Board by any
owner of premises for works done by the Metropolitan Board under
the Act in his behalf, it is provided that the Board shall, if required
by the owner, accept payment of the same by half-yearly instalments
of such amount as will be sufficient to discharge the same,
with interest at live per cent., in thirty years from the date when
such sum shall have become payable.
The Act contains various subsidiary provisions, and it directs
that from and after its passing, so much of the 69th and 70th