Ham Oyster Fishery Act 1865
WHEREAS the making and maintaining of a duly protected Oyster Fishery in the Estuary of the River Thames near to the North-east Coast of the Isle of Sheppey in the County of Kent would tend to increase the Supply of Oysters and would be of public Advantage: And whereas the several Persons in that Behalf in this Act named, with others, are willing at their own Expense to carry the Undertaking into execution, on their being incorporated as a Company (in this Act called the Company) with adequat...