Norfolk Estuary Act 1857

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1857 c. cxlvi
ANNO VICESIMO & VICESIMO PRIMO
VICTORLE REGINiE.
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Cap.
cxlvi.
An Act to alter, amend, and consolidate the Acts
relating to the Company of Proprietors of the
Norfolk Estuary. [17th August 1857.]
W
HEREAS by "The Norfolk Estuary Act, 1846," certain 9&iovict;
Persons were incorporated by the Name of " The Company c- ccc
XXXVI11,
of Proprietors of the Norfolk Estuary " for the Purpose of
reclaiming from the Sea, enclosing, and embanking the Two Tracts of
Land herein-after mentioned (being Part of the great Estuary called
" The Wash" situate between the Counties of Norfolk and Lincoln),
and for other the Works and Purposes therein mentioned or referred
to,
and the Company were thereby required to commence their Works
by forming a Two-mile Cut across the Marshes between Lynn Har-
bour and the then Channel below the Ballast Bank in a Line to be
laid out so as to correspond with the then existing Harbour Lines, and
to be subject to the Approval of the Lord High Admiral, or the Com-
missioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral, and also to
form a new Cut or Channel Two Miles in Length from the lower End
of the Marsh Cut across "The Vinegar Middle," and which Cut
should fall again into the Channel of the River Ouse near the Breast
Beacon in a fair Line, to be approved of as aforesaid, so as to reclaim
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the Portions of the Lands which would be within a Line drawn across
the Estuary to the Shores on each Side in a due East and West Direc-
tion from the Point where the said Marsh Cut would fall into the River ;
and by the said Act such Part of the said Cut or Channel, and the
Channel below the same, as should be situate to the Eastward of the
extended Mid-channel Line therein mentioned, was required to be of
such Capacity, and the same, and also the Banks and Forelands
thereof,
and the Works connected therewith, were required to be made in such
Manner, as Three Civil Engineers, to be appointed as therein men-
tioned, should from Time to Time by Writing direct; and the
Company were thereby required at such Time after the said new
Cut should have been completed to and through the Bank adjoining a
certain Place called Howard's Sluice, and a Passage for the Waters of
the Ouse should have been obtained through the same, as Three Civil
Engineers chosen as therein mentioned should direct, to form and
complete an Embankment across the Channel of the River Ouse and
the Lands adjoining of such Dimensions and so constructed as to
resist the tidal or other Waters of the River Ouse, and divert and
turn them into the said new Cut: And whereas by the said Act it
was enacted, that in consideration of and as a Compensation for the
Expenses which the Company would incur in making and executing
the Works thereby authorized to be executed, the Two several Tracts
of Land therein and herein-after described should, when and as the
same should be reclaimed and embanked as therein-after provided, be
and the same were thereby, subject to the Provisions therein con-
tained, vested in the Company and their Successors;, but it was
thereby provided, that if the Company should not within Eight Years
thereafter effectually proceed with, or should not within Twenty-one
Years thereafter complete, the Embankment and Reclamation of the
said Tracts of Land, or should not sell the same within the Term
thereby limited, the same, or so much thereof as-should not have been
embanked or reclaimed, should revert to and be again the Property of
Her Majesty, or other the Persons or Bodies Corporate to whom the
same would have belonged if the said Act had not been passed, dis-
charged from all Claims by the Company: And whereas by the
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"Norfolk Estuary Amendment Act, 1849," the said Company were
c-xcv' required, as their First Work and with all convenient Despatch, to
commence and proceed in the making and executing of the said
Two-mile Cut across the Marshes, and the Works appertaining
thereto, and also the said Cut across the Vinegar Middle, and the
Works appertaining thereto, and when and so soon as the same
should be respectively completed to cause the Waters of the said
River Ouse and Harbour of Lynn to pass and flow through the said
Cuts,
and it was provided that the said Cuts across the Marshes
and Vinegar Middle should be constructed of the Dimensions
therein mentioned ; and by the same Act, after reciting or referring to
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an Act passed in the Thirty-fifth Year of His late Maiesty King
George the Third, intituled An Act for improving the Drainage of
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the Middle and South Levels, Part of the Great Level of the Fens
called Bedford Level, and the Low Lands adjoining or near to the
said Levels, as also the Lands adjoining or near to the River Ouse in
the
County
of Norfolk, draining through the
same to
Sea by the Harbour
of King's Lynn in the said County, and for altering and improving
the Navigation of the said River Ouse from or near a Place called
Eau Brink in the Parish of Wiggenhall Saint Mary in the said
County to the said Harbour of King's Lynn, and for improving
and preserving the Navigation of the several Rivers communicating
with the said River Ouse, and to the several subsequent Acts
altering, amending, or referring to the same Act, and respectively
passed in the Thirty-sixth, Forty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-eighth, and
Fifty-ninth Years of the same Reign, in the First and Second Years
of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, and the
First and Second Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William
the Fourth, and intituled An Act to alter,
amend,
and enlarge the 1&2W. 4.
Powers
of the several Acts now in force relating to the new River or c*lxxm-
Cut from Eau Brink to King's Lynn in the County of Norfolk, called
the Eau Brink Cut, and to raise further Funds for carrying the said
Acts into execution, it was further provided that the Commissioners
of Drainage acting in execution or under the Authority of the same
Acts should contribute the Sum of Sixty thousand Pounds Sterling
by and out of the Tolls vested in or payable to the said Commis-
sioners by virtue of the same Acts, or any of them, or of the Act now
in recital, and by such Sale or Mortgage of the Lands and Property
of the said Commissioners as therein-after mentioned, and also that
the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of King's Lynn
in the County of Norfolk should contribute the like Sum of Sixty
thousand Pounds by and out of the Tonnage Duties therein men-
tioned (making together the Sum of One hundred and twenty
thousand Pounds), towards the making and executing of the said new
Cuts and Works connected therewith, such Contributions to be paid
by the Instalments and in the Manner therein mentioned to the Extent
of Eighty thousand Pounds during the Progress of the Works, and
•the remaining Part of the One hundred and twenty thousand Pounds
to be paid upon the granting of the Certificate of the Completion of
the Cuts and the Works connected therewith, and of the Diversion of
the Waters of the River Ouse into and along the Cuts, as therein
expressed, such Contributions to be repaid, with Interest thereon, if
the said Two-mile Cut across the Marshes, and the said Cut across
the Vinegar Middle, and the Works connected therewith, should not
be fully completed before the Day therein mentioned: And whereas
by "The Norfolk Estuary Amendment Act,
1853,"
the Company i6&i7Vict.
were empowered so to proceed in the said Cuts and Works as that c- xvv-
the

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