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RATES CONTINUED.
The act also authorizes the commissioners to borrow £10,000 on security of the tolls and rates, for the purposes of improving this navigation.

OUSE AND LARKE.
IT is unnecessary to recite the early enactments for this work, as they are consolidated in the act of 1827, entitled, 'An Act for improving the Drainage of Part of the South Level of the Fens within the Great Level commonly called Bedford Level, and the Navigation of the Rivers passing through the same, in the counties of Cambridge, Suffolk, and Norfolk, and in the Isle of Ely.' Certain persons are appointed navigation commissioners, with power to make a cut from a little below Ely to Sand Hill End, in the parish of Littleport, such cut to be 50 feet wide at the bottom, 74 at the top, and 6 feet deep at least; the base of the bank to be 36 feet broad and the top 12 feet, such bank to be 12 feet high from the bottom of the cut. They are also empowered to scour, cleanse and deepen such parts of the Cam and Ouse between Clayhithe and Hermitage Sluices and Littleport Bridge, and as well the present course of the Larke between Swale's Reach and Littleport Bridge, as the intended course of the river from Prick Willow to Sandy's or Sandall's Cut, and also such parts of the several navigable lodes, communicating with the said Rivers Cam and Ouse above Littleport Bridge, as may be necessary. An acreage tax of five shillings per acre in certain parts and sixpence