On Each Side Thereof, .From the Said Old Bedford River To
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on each side thereof, .from the Said Old county of Cambridge, to Ramsey High Lode, ifi Bedford River to Well Creek aforesaid, com- the said county of Huntingdon; and also the mencing about two miles above the Old Bedford navigation from Old Bedford Sluice, in the said Sluice, and terminating about two furlongs east*- : county of Norfolk, to the river Nene, in the parish ward of Nordelph; which cut will divert the whole , of Ramsey, in the said county of Huntingdon;" or some part of the water of the Old Bedford and . and to repeal certain parts of the said Act, and Forty-feet Rivers, and the Counter Wash and also to increase the present tonnage tolls or dues Cranbrook Drains, and which water would other- payable under the same ; and that it is also intended wise pass into the River O.uze by the said Old to provide for making navigable so much of the Bedford Sluice, and convey the same into the said said first-described cut as will be situate between river near the upper end of the Eau Brink Cut, by the said Sixteen-feet River ,and Well Creek; and the said creek and the said first-described cut, and also the following livers and watercourses (that is ••which last-described intended cut will be situate to say), the River Nene, from Ramsay High Lode within the parishes of Denvef and Upwell, in the to Johnson's Point at Whittlesea Meer; and from county of Norfolk ; and also for making a cut, Pigwater to Horsey Lock; the Sixteen-feet River with a bank on each side thereof, from the Forty- from the said Forty-feet River to its junction with feet River aforesaid to the said Sixteen-feet the said first-described cut; Popham's Eau, from River, and which cut will be situate in the parish the west-end thereof to its junction with the said of Chatteris, in the .said isle of Ely, and county of first-described cut; the Twenty-feet River; Bevill's Cambridge, and will divert the whole or some part Learn; the before-described cut from Duncomb of the water of the said Forty-feet River, which Corner to Bevill's Learn; Ramsey High Lode; would otherwise pass into the Old Bedford River, Bill Lode; Conquest Lode and the Pigwater j and convey the same into the River Ouze, through and also for making a certain navigable cut, branch- the said Sixteen-feet River and the cut herein ing from Whittlesea Dyke about two furlongs •first described ; and also for making a cut, with a above Briggate Bridge, and proceeding in an bank on each side thereof, from or near a place easterly direction to the said Whittlesea Dyke called ' Duncomb Corner/ to Bevill's Learn afore- about two furlongs above Ashline Sluice; and said, at or near Angle Corner, and which cut will which said cut will divert some part of the waters be situate within the parishes of Whittlesea Saint of Whittlesea Dyke, which now pass through Mary and Whittlesea Saint Andrew, in the said Whittlesea Saint Mary and Whittlesea Saint isle of Ely and county of Cambridge, or one of Andrew aforesaid, or one of them, and will con- •them, and will divert the whole or some part of the vey the same into the said Whittlesea Dyke afore- water of the said Learn, and of King's Dyke and said; and also for making a navigable cut from Whittlesea Dyke, which would otherwise flow into Johnson's Point aforesaid to Conquest Lode; and thd River Nene through Whittlesea Dyke, and which said rivers, lodes, watercourses, cuts, and cause the same to flow into the Twenty-feet other works are situate, or are intended to be River; and also for making a cut from Stilton made in, or. to pass from, through, or into the -Brook to the Yard's-end Dyke, near the village of several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial Yaxley, and for widening and enlarging the said places of Ramsey, Farcett, Stanground, Caldecott, 'dyke to Yaxley Lode, at or near the northern end Yaxley, Wood Walton, Connington, Holme, of the village of Yaxley, and which said cut and Glatton, Warboys, Whittlesea Saint Mary, Whit- -dyke, and the lands through which the same will tlesea Saint Andrew, Wisbech Saint Peter, Wis- •or do pass, are situate in the parishes of Stilton bech Saint Mary, March, Wimblington, Dodding- and Yaxley, in the county of Huntingdon, and ton, Benwick, Chatteris, Manea, Coveney, Down- which cut will divert or convey the water from the ham, Witchford, Wentworth, Witcham, Sutton, said brook into the said Yaxley Lode; and also for Mepal, Welches Dam, Byal Fen, Welney, Upwell, -making a drain from the north side of a bank or Outwell, Elm, Emneth, Downham Market, Wim- 'drove, called * Bishop's Bank,' in Needham Fen, botsham, Stow Bardolph, and Denver, or some of to the River Nene, at the boundary ditch between them, in the county of Huntingdon, and the said Laddus Fen District and Marmont Priory Farm, county of Norfolk, and in the said isle of Ely and in or through certain lands in the parishes of Elm county of Cambridge. -and Upwell, in the isle of Ely and county of 'Cambridge. And notice is further given, that it is the in- tention of the parties applying for the said Bill or And notice is also given, that provision is in- Bills to obtain .powers for the compulsory purchase tended to be made in the said Bill or Bills for of messuages, lands tenements, and hereditaments; improving the navigation of the several navigable also for imposing and levying new tonnage tolls or rivers, lodes, and drains within the said Middle dues, and for altering or increasing the present Level, and for that purpose to alter, amend, and tonnage tolls or dues, for or in respect of any enlarge the powers and provisions of an Act, vessels navigated through or upon any or either of ^passed in the twenty-seventh year of the reign of the said present or intended rivers, lodes, water- King George the Second, intituled " An Act for courses, or cuts; and for imposing certain tolls on improving and preserving the navigation from horses and other cattle passing along the. banks of Salter's Lode Sluice, in the county of Norfolk, to the said cuts, or any of them; and also for im- Stanground Sluice, in the county of Huntingdon ; posing and levying certain annual rates or taxes, and from Flood's Ferry, in the isle of Ely, in the or for increasing the present rates or taxes upon.