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may meet with a prohibition against taking the 

 water, when he is just ready to open his sluices and 

 set it a-fi owing. 



3d, If the river be the'boundary of his property, 

 and his neighbour on the other side has an equal 

 right to the water with himself, he may be in the 

 same predicament, and a deed of sale, or transfer, 

 or permission, must be obtained before he begins, 

 not possibly in the power of the person to grant. 

 All this must be well understood before he com- 

 mences his operations. 



4th, If, in running his first and highest level, he 

 meet with a field or fields not his property, which 

 intervenes by elbowing into his estate, and cuts 

 him off from much other land that belongs to him, 

 he must buy such fields, or perhaps lose the greatest 

 benefit which would result from his operations. 

 If he cannot buy the fee-simple, can he buy per- 

 mission to cut through it ? He must know this 

 before he begins. 



5th, Having given due attention to all these 

 circumstances^ let him repair with his spirit-level 

 and attendant to the highest spot where the stream 

 enters his property or farm, where he has the pro- 

 perty on both t-ides, and where he can creel works 

 tream in order to divert the whole, or 

 any part of the water into a new channel ; and let 

 him begin to take the Uvei from the surface of the 

 water, supposing it pent to the highest by such 

 works. 



Oth, He is to level from that spot following the 



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