All Actions, Suits, and Proceedings at Law or in Equity, and all Arbitrations, to which the said Commissioners and Overseers at the Time of the passing of this Act have been or are Parties, are hereby specially saved and reserved entire, and shall not be prejudiced or affected by anything in this Act contained, and may be proceeded in by or against the Commissioners without the Necessity of intimating such Action, Suit, Proceeding, or Arbitration to the Commissioners, or making them formally Parties thereto; and all Offences against the Provisions of the recited Acts, or either of them, committed before the passing of this Act, may be prosecuted, and all Penalties and Forfeitures incurred by reason of such Offences may be sued for and recovered, by the Commissioners in the same Manner in all respects as if the recited Acts had not been repealed.