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The Municipal Commissioner may enlarge, alter lhe course of, lessen, arch over or otherwise improve any municipal drain and may discontinue, close up or destroy nny such drain which has, in his opinion, become useless or unnecessary or prohibit the use of any such drain either entirely or for the purpose of foul water drainage or for lhc purpose or surface drainage: 720 Alteration ;ind disconti- njjvici; of drains. Communicn- lion of municipal drains uilh drains, lakes, clc.. beyond '| Kolkata]. Communication of drain under comrol oT local :'Uilio rily btyond '[Kolkaia] with municipal drain. Cleansing drains. Power lo coii- nud drain of private slrt-'el with municipal drain. Provided Lhat if, by reason of anything done under this section, any person is deprived of the lawful use of any drain, the Municipal Commissioner shall, as soon as may be, provide for his use some other drain as effectual as the one which has been discontinued, closed up or destroyed or the use of which has been prohibited. 2S5. Subjcct to the approval of the State Governmeni in this behalf, lhe Corporation may, if nccessary, make its drains to communicate with, oremply themselves into, any public drain, lake, stream, canal or watercourse outside '[Kolkaia], and in so doing il may exercise throughout the line of country outside 16 [Kolkaia] through which the said drains are to run all the powers which it mighi exercise under this Act if the said drains were to run entirely in '[Kolkata].