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(1) Without prejudice to their powers under the last foregoing section, a highway authority may raise or lower or otherwise alter, as they think fit, the level of a highway maintainable at the public expense by them.
(2) A highway authority shall pay compensation to any person who has sustained damage by reason of the execution by them of works under this section.—[Mr. Nugent.]
Brought up, and read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill.