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5. Powers to enter land for reconnaissance and preliminary survey in connection with highway scheme.

(a) enter upon any land alongwith his workmen and survey and taken measurements and levels on it;
(b) mark such levels dig or bore into the subsoil do all other acts necessary to ascertain whether the land is suitable.
(c) set-out the boundaries of the proposed highway by placing marks and cutting trenches; and
(d) where otherwise survey cannot be completed and the levels taken and the boundaries marked, cut down and clear any part of a standing crop, fence or jungle :