The Colne Fishery Act, 1870
WHEREAS the fishery of the River Colne, extending from North Bridge, in the borough of Colchester, to Westnesse, otherwise St. Osyth Point, in Essex, and in the creeks and branches of the said river within the same extent, hath from time immemorial belonged to the Corporation of the borough of Colchester, whether under the title of burgesses of the said borough, or of bailiffs and burgesses, or of bailiffs and commonalty, or of mayor and commonalty, or of mayor, aldermen, and burgesses, and t...