Burnt Fen District Act, 1879
WHEREAS in the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty an Act was passed (thirty-third year of the reign of King George the Second, chapter thirty-two,) making provision for the draining and preserving of certain fen lands and low grounds in the Isle of Ely and counties of Suffolk and Norfolk, which lands and grounds were for those purposes divided into two districts, called the first district and the second district, which Act, so far as it related to the said first district, was amended b...