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The Board of Councillors may, with the sanction of the State Government, declare that any ferry, not being vested in any other local authority within or adjacent to the limits of a municipal area, is a municipal ferry, and the profits derivable therefrom shall, upon such declaration, be credited to the Municipal Fund: Provided that due compensation shall be made by the Board of Councillors to any person for the loss which he may have sustained in consequence of such ferry being declared to be a municipal ferry: Provided further that the amount of compensation due in such case shall be ascertained and awarded by the Executive Magistrate under section 17 of the Bengal Ferries Act, 1885, or any other law for the time being in force. Ben. Act 1 of