| Description | Sub-bundle of papers relating to the Eau Brink Drainage and Navigation Bill. Contains minutes, reports, correspondence, accounts of expenses, bills and receipts. Includes: copy of report of Thomas Telford and John Rennie, engineers, as to Eau Brink Drainage and Navigation, 1822; printed Statement of receipts and payments under the Eau Brink Acts, 1795-1823; printed report of Thomas Telford and John Rennie "on a view taken of the works, at the expiration of two years from opening of the Cut", 3 September 1823; Bill "to amend and enlarge the Powers of the several Acts now in force, relative to the Drainage through the New River or Cut from Eau Brink to King's Lynn, in the County of Norfolk", 1825, annotated; sealed Petition to Parliament by the Bedford Level Corporation in opposition to the Eau Brink Bill, affixed with the Corporation seal; unsealed copy of Petition; printed Statement on behalf of the land-owners opposing the Eau Brink Drainage and Navigation Bill; copy of the Petition of the Corporation of Thetford in favour of Eau Brink Drainage Bill; minutes of the quarterly meeting of the Eau Brink Commissioners of Drainage, April 1822, January 1826, April 1826, January 1827, October 1827, April 1827; Resolutions of the meeting of the Swaffham and Bottisham District Commissioners of Drainage, 1825; copy of Preliminary Report of Engineers J. Walker and W.C. Mylne to the Committee of Management of the Eau Brink Drainage Commissioners, 1825; 1825 bills of expenses to the Bedford Level Corporation and the Eau Brink Commissioners of Drainage from engineers John Dyson, William Chadwell Mylne, Charles Vignoles, Joseph Little Jr, J. Walker; Report on Samuel Well's bill for conducting the Eau Brink Bill opposition, 1825; Report on Mr. Dyson's Bill as to the Eau Brink Bill opposition, 1825; bill from printer William Hatfield, 1825; accounts of expenses as to opposition of the Eau Brink Bill, 1825-1826; accounts of expenses from Mssrs G. and J. White, solicitors, 1794-1876; copy of John Rennie's report to the Eau Brink Drainage Commissioners, 12 January 1825; Correspondence from John Rennie to the Committee of Management of the Eau Brink Drainage Commissioners, 6 July 1825; copy of John Rennie's report to the Eau Brink Commissioners of Drainage, 13 July 1825; correspondence from Thomas Courthope with estimate for building a barge, April 1825; George Rennie's report as to Denver Sluice, with resolutions of a quarterly meeting at Lynn, October 1829 ; printed "Specification of three new sluice openings and a lock for the proposed enlargement of Denver Sluice", 1831; Correspondence from Mr. Lemmon to Mr. Veasey, July 1827; Correspondence from John Wing as to Lynn compensation claims and litigation, September 1830; Appointment of Denver Sluice Committee, November 1831; Proceedings of the Denver Sluice Committe, November 1831 and February 1832; Petition as to Chester water works.
Also contains a sub-bundle of notes, memorandums and correspondence as to the Bedford Level Corporation Tax. Includes: schedules of lands purchased by the Eastern Counties Railway company and taxes due in the districts of Burnt Fen, Cawdle Fen, Lakenheath and Brandon, Thetford, Waterbeach, 1844-1848; schedule of Fen Districts in the Bedford Level outlining tax per acre and under what Acts of Parliament regulated; Particulars of the lands purchased by the Eastern Counties Railway Company subject to Fen taxes between Cambridge and Brandon. |