Ipswich Fishery Act 1859
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Citation | 1859 c. lxxii |
ANNO VICESIMO SECUNDO & VICESIMO TERTIO
VICTORLE REGINiE.
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Cap.
lxxii.
An Act for the Regulation and Improvement of
the Oyster Fishery in the River Orwell within
the Borough of Ipswich. [1st August 1859.]
W
HEREAS by a Charter granted by King Henry the Eighth
in the Year One thousand five hundred and eighteen " to His
Bailiffs, Burgesses, and Commonalty of the Town of
Ipswich"
the Port of the said Town and Water running by the Flux and Reflux
of the Sea from the said Port towards the South-east unto a Place
called
PoUesheved,
otherwise called
Polleshead,
and also the Land and
Soil at any Time overflown or covered with Water by such Flux and
Reflux of the Sea, were declared and notified to have been and to be
within the Liberty and Franchise and of the Liberty and Franchise of
the Town aforesaid; and the same Port, Water, and Current of the
Water, and the aforesaid Lands and Soil whensoever overflown or
covered with Water by the Flux or Reflux of the Sea, although there-
tofore they had not been Parcel of the Town aforesaid and within the
Liberty, Franchises, and Privileges of the same Town, were annexed and
united to the same Town as Parcel of the same Town, and within the
Liberty and Franchise of the same, to have and to hold to them, the
said Bailiffs, Burgesses, and Commonalty and their Successors, as Parcel
of the Town aforesaid as within the Liberty and Franchise of the same
Town for ever: And whereas the said River is well adapted to the
Growth of Oysters, and the Freemen of the said Borough have been in
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