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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/navigation-colchester-to-wivenhoe-act-1697/section-V",
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  "legislation": "aep/Will3/9/19",
  "legislation_title": "Navigation (Colchester to Wivenhoe) Act 1697",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/navigation-colchester-to-wivenhoe-act-1697",
  "path": "section/V",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "V",
  "heading": "Mayor, & c. may cut and dig Land assigned;",
  "text": "and may make Trenches, & c.; and may remove Gravel, & c.; and may lay the Earth, & c, when digged, on the Sides of the Banks; and are to have free Passage for the Purposes aforesaid.\nAnd be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawfull for the Mayor and Co[m]monalty their Assignees and Workmen to cutt and digg all the said Land and Ground so to be assigned laid out used and imployed for such Channel of the said River not exceeding One hundred Foot in Breadth and to make new or larger all such Cutts Trenches or Passages for Water in upon or through such Land or Ground as they shall think fitt or necessary for the better effecting and carrying on the said Undertaking being the Ground or Soyle of any Person or Persons whatsoever between Wivenhoe aforesaid and the New Hithe and to remove and take away all Gravel Beds of Ouze or any other Thing or Impediment which may hinder the Navigation or Free Passage for any Shipp or Vessell comeing or to come from Wivenhoe aforesaid unto the said New Hithe and preserve the same and to lay the Earthe Soil & Stuff there or thence digged or to be digged or taken out on any or either side of the Bank or Ground next such Channel made or to be made opened enlarged or cleansed as shall be most meet for that purpose and to have free Passage in all convenient Places and att all convenient times for making cutting digging cleansing scouring opening deepning enlargeing or amending the same as aforesaid or the Banks thereof from time to time and to doe all other necessary Matters and Things for the better carrying on and effecting the said Undertaking.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "interlined on the Roll."
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X2",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: or O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/9/19/section/V",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:22:54.773258+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}