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great soakafio tliiou^H it, an<l is (lama<i;c(l by the wind-urged 
waves of the Wash waters — and other benefits to follow from the 
lower Improvements, they subscribe 4500/. 
Walderseij and Redmore drainage districts complained about, 
and at last agreed to, the terms we have already noticed. 
The Commissioners of Scirers for f-l ishech Hundred, &c., who 
are no longer to superintend the repair of the river bank, agree 
to pay to its new conservators the annual expense of maintenance 
(calculated from the average of eight years) for one portion of its 
length ; and for the remainder. Is. Gr/. an acre upon the land now 
liable to amend it. 
Then the s/iip-owners, <Scc., of Sutton Bridge objected to being 
tolled in connection with \\'isbech for improvements of no 
benefit, so low down the river ; but, however, as part of the port 
they could not be favoured with ex( lusion. 
'riien there were Wisbech ship-owners and owners of icarehouses 
likely to be affected by the new works ; besides Wisbech Canal 
Trustees, tlie Tnistecs of ttco different tnrvpihe roads, and the 
Snrvei/ors of Wisbech Highways, whose claims had to be settled 
or clauses inserted in tlie Act on their belialf. 
The Eastern Counties Railway Company objected to contribute. 
The present bridge at Wisbech preventing large vessels from 
getting up to their station, they designed to construct a short 
extension line down to the harbour below the bridge, so that 
ships might load and unload cargoes directly with them. The 
cost would be about 18,000/. ; and as the Nene Valley scheme 
was at first expected to make an opening bridge, which would 
allow large vessels to sail close up to the present terminus, the 
promoters asked for 10,000/., the Railway Company thereby to 
save themselves 8000/. However, Wisbech being resolute for a 
fixture bridge (so that those ships only can pass that can lower 
their masts or funnels), this subscription has fallen short. But 
the Act provides, that the Admiralty may order the intended 
new bridge to be opened if it should be found to impede naviga- 
tion ; for which reason it will be erected as a swing bridge, only 
at present without the turning macliinery. 
The Middle Level Drainage Comndssi oners, together with the 
River Nene Naxngation Commissioners, obtained a guarantee that 
the right of taking fresh water into the above district, and of a 
continuous navigation through Siandground Sluice (below Peter- 
borough), shall not be interfered with, and that a certain depth of 
water sliall be preserved in one of their most important canals 
there opening into the Nene. In case the lowering of the river 
should be found to prejudice these interests, arbitrators or um- 
pires are to determine what necessary works the Nene Valley 
Incorporated Commissioners must perform to prevent it. Locks 
