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RefNoKBLC/5/2/38/6
AltRefNoR59/31/box81/bundle1/11; R59/31/box81/bundle1/12; R59/31/box81/bundle1/13
TitleSub-bundles of Papers concerning the Nene Valley Drainage and Navigation Bills
DescriptionThree sub-bundles of parliamentary papers concerning the Nene Valley Drainage and Navigation Bills. Contains a notice of intended application to Parliament; the draft petition of the Bedford Level Corporation against the 1854 Bill; petitions of the owners and occupiers of lands adjoining the River Nene, and the Nene Valley Commissioners in support of the 1854 Bill; the legal brief for the Corporation concerning the 1854 Bill; draft clauses and provisos; minutes of evidence presented before Sir John Pakington in November 1854; instructions on behalf of the Corporation; a statement of the sums expended on the north bank of Morton's Leam between 1804 to 1854; a copy of the 1857 Bill; William Adam's plan of the Wisbech River, showing the locations of John Rennie's and Thomas Telford's proposed new cuts; the Board of Trade's further report about the 1862 Bill; the report of the Admiralty about the 1862 Bill; plans of the Bedford Level; notes and correspondence. Also contains "Middle Level Drainage: Annual Abstract of the Accounts to 06 April 1858".
Date1851 - 1862
CreatorNameBedford Level Corporation
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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