River Lee, Navigation. Act 1767
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
(7 Geo. 3) C A P. LI.
'WHEREAS by an Act passed in the twelfth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty, intituled,An Act for ascertaining, preserving, and improving the Navigation of the River Lee, from the Town of Hertford to the Town of Ware, in the County of Hertford; and for preserving and improving the said River from the said Town of Ware, to the new Cut or River made by the Mayor, Commonalty, and Citizens of London; and for enabling the Governor and Company of the New River the better to supply the Cities of London and Westminster, and the Liberties and Suburbs thereof, with good and wholesome Water, several Powers were granted to Trustees therein and thereby appointed, for preserving and improving the Navigation of the said River Lee: And whereas the Powers thereby granted have been found to be insufficient to answer the good Purposes thereby intended: And whereas by an Act passed in the thirteenth Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, intituled, An Act for the bring of the River Lee to the North Side of the City of London, the whole Jurisdiction, Conservation, Rule, and Government of the said new Cut or River, mentioned to have been made by the Mayor, Commonalty, and Citizens of London , are vested in the said Mayor, Commonalty, and Citizens, and their Successors for ever: And whereas a divided Jurisdiction upon one and the same Navigation must be productive of great Inconveniencies: And whereas the Navigation of the River Lee from the Town of Hertford to the River Thames, in its present State, is attended with many Difficulties and Delays, and liable to many Obstructions: And whereas the further improving of the said Navigation of the said River Lee, and the extending the Navigation thereof to the Flood-gates belonging to the Town Mill in the said Town of Hertford, will be of great Benefit and Advantage to the City of London, and to the Counties of Hertford, Essex, and Middlesex, and will be of publick Utility: And whereas, by a Survey lately made under the Direction of the said Trustees, it appears, that the said Navigation is capable of being greatly improved; and that the said River Lee is capable of being made navigable to the said Flood-gates belonging to the Town Mill in the said Town of Hertford: And whereas the said Purposes cannot be effected without the Aid of Parliament:' May it therefore please your Majesty, that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament a assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the Trusteesappointed in or by virtue of the said recited Act of the twelfth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty, together with SirAnthony Thomas Abdy Baronet, Stotherd Abdy Clerk, Bartholomew Abell, Jeremiah Acres, Samuel Atkinson, Thomas Adams, Joseph Adams, Thomas Adderley , the Right Honourable Conway, commonly called Lord Beauchamp; Sir William Baker Knight, Thomas Brand, Thomas Brand junior, Joseph Bird, Thomas Blackmore, William Baker, George Poyner Bisse, John Boteler, Edward Baintun, Michael Harvey Breton, Charles Boddam, Calvert Bowyer, Elias Brownsword, Booth, William Berners, Nathaniel Brassey, Charles Berners, Peregrine Bertie, Samuel Bosanquet, Robert Boothby, Richard Benyon, Richard Wilbraham Bootle, James Barwick, John Banks, John Brewit, James Beauvoir, Richard Beauvoir, Thomas Boddam , the Right Honourable James Brydges , commonly called the Marquis of Carnarvon; the Right Honourable Cecil, commonly called Lord Viscount Cranbourn; the Right Honourable Edward Cornwallis , Sir Richard Chaise Knight, Sir John Chapman Baronet, Nicholson Calvert, Richard Cox, John Calvert, Timothy Caswall, Peter Calvert LL. D. Edward Coddrington, Benjamin Cherry, Thomas Creasy, Richard Chiswell, William Clarke, Cadwallader Coker, Robert Child, William Currie, George Richard Carter, Pryse Campbell, Nathaniel Cholmley, Grey Cooper, Peregrine Cust, George Cooke, Charles Dingley, Henry Dunster, Joseph Dimsdale, john Dixon, Thomas Docwra Philip Delahaze, John Darker, Samule Dixon, Thomas Dew, John Dell, James Eyre, Ralph Freeman D. D. Rose Fuller, Henry Fuller, Richard Fuller, Thomas Fanshaw, William Forrister , the Right Honourable Lord Adam Gordon , Sir John Griffin Griffin Baronet, Sir Alexander Grant Baronet, Charles Gardiner, Richard Gulston, Edward Gardiner, James Gordon, John Gripper, William Gripper, Joseph Gridley, Bradshaw Galliard, Pierce Galliard, Daniel Goatley, John Gawler, Sherman Godfrey, Edward Groves, Thomas Glinester, James Grenville junior, Joseph Gascoyne, Bamber Gascoyne junior, Amie Garnault, Charles Gore, James Graham, Jacob Houblon, Jacoh Houblon junior, William Hall, Richard Hall, Hume, Humphry Hall, Eliab Harvey, Hinde, Robert Hinde of Preston, John Howell, John Harding, Daniel Haydon, Hutchinson, John Henniker, Heath, Heath, John Hankin, George Hankin, Richard Hare, John Hyde, Francis Herne, Johns Huske, Richard Hassell, Jeremiah Rayment Hadsley, William Harris , Sir Conyers Jocelyn Baronet, Robert Jacomb, Israel Jallabert, George Jennings, John Jennings, Jackson, Richard Iles, Robert Jones of Old Ford, Richard Jackson, Robert Jones, Keck, William Coomber Kirkby , the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Lisburn in the Kingdom of Ireland, Sir Mathew Lamb Baronet, Peniston Lamb, John Luther, John Leachman of Hoddesdon, John Lefevre, Peter Lefevre, Isaac Lefevre, George Lake, Edward Lewis, John Lockwood, John Leapidge, John Rogers Lawton, William Lake, the HonourableGeorge Monson , Sir William Maynard Baronet, Masterman, Joseph Martyn, Thomas Morgan, Charles Morgan, Charles Mahew, Thomas Marlborough, Peter Muilman, Richard Muilman, John Malet, Richard Mills, Joseph Mellish, Christopher Molineux, Crisp Molineux, Adolphus Meetherke, Charles Maynard , the Right Honourable Frederick North , commonly called Lord North; Abraham North, Richard Nicholus, James Noel, Arnold Nesbitt , Sir William Owen Baronet, George Onslow, George Orgar, Abraham Ogie, Robert Henley Ongley, Oliver , Sir William Beauchamp Proctor Baronet, George Prescott, Newdigate Poyntz, David Poole, George Prescott junior, Michael Pepper, Board Packer, George Proctor, George Phelps, John Paterson, John Phillips, Robert Pell, Jens Pederson, Mathew Raper, John Raper, John Radcliffe, John Runington, Samuel Rogers, William Rackstrow, John Roberts, Joshua Reynolds, Heneage Robinson, Isaac Martin Rebow, Jeremiab Rayment, John Rigg , Sir John Saunders Sebright Baronet, Sir Thomas Salusbury Knight, Richard Stanley, John Shaw, John Sabine, Joseph Sabine, Francis Stanley Clerk, Laurence Sullivan, Samuel Scott of Hertford, John Smart, Seymour Stocker, Richard Smith, William Squire, Henry Stout, Samuel Scott of Arnwell, John Scott of the same, George Sealy, Charles Smith of Stratford, William Sotheby, Henry Seymour, William Squire , the Reverend F. Stanley junior, Joseph Smith, Henry Spurling, John Sawbridge, Scudamore, Henry Southouse, Thomas Scot, Samuel Scot, Charles Steide, Charles Smith, James Spagg, Robert Salmon, Lister Silmon, John Shelley, Henry Shiffner, John Stephenson, John Strutt, John Shakespear, Daniel Stacy, Christopher Scott, William Southouse, William Sitwell, Richard Salway , the Right Honourable the Earl of Thomond in the Kingdom of Ireland, the Right Honourable the Earl of Tylney in the Kingdom of Ireland, the Right Honourable Charles Townsend, James Turvin, James Townsend, Francis Tyssen, Thomas Thornton, John Tucker, George Forster Tuffnell, Thomas Teshmaker, John Usborne, Benjamin Vaughan, George Wright, Samuel White, Samuel Wake, William Walley M. D. Lewis Weston, Benjamin Wellington, Peter Walley, Isaac Whittington, Bourchier Walton, Edward Woodcock, Arthur Warren, Joshua Winter, Ralph Winter, John Weyland, Edward Woodcock Clerk, Charles Whitworth, Joseph Wilcocks, Thomas Winspear , the Honourable Charles Yorke, Thomas Yate , M. D. she Lord Mayor, Court of Aldermen, and Recorder of the City of London for the time being, the Comptroller of the Works and Revenues of London Bridge for the time being, the Mayor and Recorder of the Borough of Hertford for the time being, the Governor, Deputy Governor, and Treasurer, of the New River Company for the time being, shall be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees for the making, extending, improving, and maintaining, the Navigation of the said River Lee, from the Flood-gates belonging to the Town Mill in the Town of Hertford to the River Thames, and for putting this Act in Execution; and that the said Trustees, or any five or more of them, shall be, and they are hereby authorised and impowered, from time to time, at their Discretion, to cleanse, scour, deepen, enlarge, or straighten the Channel or Course of the said RiverLee; and also to set out, open, make, and maintain, all or any of the new Cuts or Canals, herein after specified and described to communicate with the said River Lee, and to be used for the said Navigation; and also to remove all Obstructions and Impediments whatsoever to the said Navigation; and also to build, erect, set up, and make over or in the said Channel or Course of the said River, and the new Cuts and Canals aforesaid, and upon the Lands and Grounds adjoining or near to the same, such and so many Bridges, Locks, Staunches, Flood-gates, Pens of Water, Weirs, Stanks, Weigh-beams, Cranes, or other Engines of the like Kind, as they shall think necessary or convenient for the said Navigation, and from time to time to alter and repair the same; and also to set out and make Towing-paths or Haling-ways upon any of the Lands or Grounds aforesaid, for towing or drawing with Men, or Horses or other Cattle, Boats, or other Vessels using the said Navigation...
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