Section IV

Mayor, & c. may assign the Places that are to be enlarged, & c. and Ground to be dug for the Purposes of this Act; Breadth allowed of Ground assigned.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in order to the making the said Channel and River more conveniently navigable and passable for Shipps & Vessells from Wivenhoe upp to the New-Hithe aforesaid it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Mayor and Aldermen or major part of them their Assignee or Assignees att any time or times on or before the Five and twentieth day of December One thousand six hundred ninety eight to designe assigne and lay out where and in what Places such Chanel or River shall be had made enlarged opened and continued between Wivenhoe and the New-Hithe as shall appeare to them to be most convenient and practicable and what Pieces Points or Parcells of Land or Ground lying between Wivenhoe and New-Hithe aforesaid are fitt and necessary to be appointed cutt digged and laid out for the making or enlargeing such Channel for the better and freer Current of the said River there and for the more easie and clear Passage of Shipps and Vessells from Wivenhoe to New Hithe aforesaid as to them their Deputies and Workmen with the Allowance of the Co[m]missioners hereafter menc[i]oned or any Five of them shall seem meet and necessary for that purpose so as such Land or Ground so to be assigned or laid out shall not exceed the Breadth of One hundred Foot in any Place or Places.