{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/navigation-colchester-to-wivenhoe-act-1697/section-XIX",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/navigation-colchester-to-wivenhoe-act-1697/section-XIX.json",
  "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/XIX",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XIX",
  "heading": "In what Case the Earl of Kent may keep severed Land of Gravel Pit, or have the Value thereof, to be ascertained as before mentioned.",
  "text": "If the Earl elect to keep the said Land, and signify the same as herein mentioned, the same to vest in the Earl; Mayor, &c. to erect a Wall or Bank to prevent new Channel from overflowing the old Channel.\nProvided also and it is hereby enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in case the said Mayor and Co[m]monalty their Workmen or Agents shall make a new Cutt or Channel through the said Point or Parcell of Land of the said Earle of Kent called Gravell-Pitt Land lyeing over against the Shipp Yard which was formerly in the said New Hithe in pursuance of the Power and Authority to them herein before given that it shall be att the Election of the said Earle his Heires or Assignes either to have the Value of the said Land so to be severed to be ascertained in manner and forme herein before mentioned in case the said Earle his Heires or Assignes and the said Mayor and Co[m]monalty shall not agree the same betweene themselves or to keep & retaine the said Land so to be severed And in case the said Earle his Heires or Assignes shall make his or their Election to retaine & keep the said Lands so to be severed & shall within Twelve Months next after such Severance by Writing under his or their Hands and Seales signifie the same to the Mayor of the said Borrough for the being that then the said Land so to be severed and the Right and Estate thereof shall not be vested in the said Mayor and Co[m]monalty & their Successors but remaine in the said Earle his Heires and Assignes And in such Case the said Mayor and Co[m]monalty their Workmen & Agents shall make a substantial Wall and Bank athwart and crosse the present or old Channel att both Ends thereof next the new Channel so to be made to preserve the said old Channel from the overflowing of the said new Channel which said old Channel shall be vested in and enjoyed by the said Earle his Heires and Assignes.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/9/19/section/XIX",
    "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."
}