Norfolk Estuary Act 1899
WHEREAS by the Norfolk Estuary Act 1846 the Company of Proprietors of the Norfolk Estuary (herein-after called "the Company") were incorporated for the purpose of reclaiming and embanking from the sea two tracts of land (herein-after called "the tracts") part of the Great Estuary called the Wash and for other the works and purposes therein mentioned and provision was made by that Act that the Company should commence the works by making and maintaining two new cuts for the waters of the River ...