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 public order and the prevention of nuisances, to the intent that the said river should be preserved as a place of regulated public recreation :

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :

Part L—NAviGATION.

1, Public right of navigation,~lt shall be lawful for all persons, whether for pleasure or profit, 19 go and be, pass and repass, in boats or vessels over or upon aay and every part of the River Thanes, through which Thames water flows, between the town of Cricklade and Teddington Jock, including all such backwaters, creeks, side-channels, bays and inlets connected therewith as form parts of the said river within the limits aforesaid,

2. Private artificial cuts not to te deemed parts of the river—ANl private anificial cuts for purposes of drainage or irrigation, and all artificial inlets for moats, boathouses, ponds, or other like private purposes, already made or hereafter to be made, and all channels which by virtue of any conveyance from or agreement with the Conseryators, or the Commissioners acting under any of the Acts mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act, or by any lawful title have been enjoyed as private channels fur the period of twenty years before the passing of this Act, shall be deemed not to be parts of the said river for the purposes of the last preceding section, or any provisions consequent thercon,

3. Conservators may exclude the public, ~Nowwithstanding anything in the first section contained, it shall le lawful for the Conservators fram time to time to exclude the public fara limited period froin spezified portians of the said river, for purposes connected with the navigation, or with any public work or uses, or for the preservation of public order.

4. Right of navigation to include anchoring and maoring.—Vhe right of aavigation hereinbefore described shall be deemed to include a right ta anchor, moor, or remain stationary fora reasonable time in the ordinary course of pleastre navigation, subject to such resirictions as the Conservators shall from tinie to time by byJaws determine ; and it shall be the duty of the Con- servators to make special regulations for the prevention of annoyance to any occupier of a riparfan residence, by reason of the loitering or delay of any house-boat or steam-launch, and for the prevention of the pollution of the river by the sewage of any house-boat or steam-launch, Provided that nothing in this Act, or in any by-law made thereunder, shall be constcued to deprive any riparian owner of any Iegal rights in the soil or bed of the river which he may now possess, or of any legal remedies which he may now possess for prevention of anchoring, mooring, loiteriug, or delay of any boat or other vessel, or to give any riparian owner any right as against the public, which he did not possess before the passing of this Act, to exclude any person from entering upon or navigating any backwater, ercek, channel, bay, inlet, or other water, whether deemed to he part of the River Thames as in this Act defined or not.

Provided also, that the powers given by this clause shall be in addition to, and not to be deemed to be in substitution for, any powers already possessed by the Conservators,