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a°d much valuable frontage redeemed; for, supposing it carried up to 

 Otterspool, an area of 616 acres would be produced ; and if up to Garston, 

 1590 acres. 



The Jillifig up would not concern our tidal object ; on the contrary, the 

 circulation of water within would avoid the displacement of 2,702,018 cubic 

 yards of tidal water in first enclosure to Otterspool, and 72,000,000 in the 

 whole enclosure. The contemplated enclosure between the Dock Estate and 

 Dingle Point will embrace 346 acres area, and 11,024,444 cubic yards of 

 water, for the total of which displacement I should not be tenacious of per- 

 mitting of a close wall and filling up the strand within it, notwithstanding 

 the assumed obvious advantage to property. 



I will conclude this Report, Sir, by begging it may go hand in hand with 

 the local and general Plans herewith submitted for elucidation to the mind's 

 eye of those gentlemen concerned in the conservation of the Mersey and 

 Dock approaches. Of the latter it need only be said, that, whilst placing 

 dock sills between four and nine feet of low-water level, a bank should be 

 contemplated with much jealousy that not only precludes taking up early 

 anchorage near the Southern Docks, but that threatens to elevate itself 

 above the level of those sills, except in the guttering course of the gate 

 sluices. 



I ought to add, that we need not wait the connexion of a boundary wall 

 from the Docks to Dingle Point before striking out the eutivater wall south- 

 ward, but act independently and effectively by Dingle Point, by first project- 

 ing on the rocks 100 yards in a south-west direction, and then vigorously 

 working towards Otterspool. 



I have the honour to be, Sir, 



Your obedient Servant, 



H. M. Denham, R.N,, 

 Marine Surveyor to the Dock Trustees 



To the Worshipful the Mayor of Liverpool. 



No. 6— Statement of the Town Clerk as to the Rights of the Mayor, 

 Aldermen, and Burgesses of Liverpool to the Lordship of Liverpool, com- 

 prising the River Mersey up to the Bridges and to the Strand at Liver- 

 pool, Toxteth Park, Birkenhead, and Wallasey. 



1. The title of the Corporation to the Lordship of Liverpool, comprising 

 the River Mersey up to the Bridges, 



The Corporation, as purchasers from the grantees of King Charles the 

 First, are seized in fee of the town and lordship of Liverpool, and all the 

 customs, anchorage, and key or keel towl of the water of the Mersey, of 

 which over the whole of the river up to the Warrington and Frodsham 

 Bridges the Corporation are, and ever since their purchase have been, in the 

 receipt and enjoyment. The lordship comprises the river up to the bridges. 



By the Liverpool Dock Act, 2 Geo. IIL c. 86. s. 18, the Corporation, as 

 " the Trustees of the Liverpool Docks," have the following express powers : — • 



" And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it shall and 

 may be lawful to and for the said trustees, their agents, servants or work- 

 men, when and as often as occasion shall require, well and sufficiently to 

 cleanse, scour, open, deepen, widen or straighten, rake up or cut through 

 any banks, shoals, flats, shallows, dock sluices or guts in the said harbour of 

 Liverpool, or leading into the same from the sea, as the same trustees, or 

 any twenty-five or more of them, shall think proper and necessary for the 



