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Mill, in the said town of Hertford.' As there are many clauses in this act for directing new cuts or canals to be made on various parts of the line, we shall here consolidate them. The River Lea or Lee is to be made navigable to the Flood-gates of the Town Mill at Hertford; and the proprietors are authorized to make at any time the following new cuts or canals, viz, one from the said river at a place called The Folly, into and down part of Dicker Mill Stream, to return into the said river at any point they may think best above Dicker Mill and between Constant's Weir and Manifold Ditch; one from the lock above Ware Mill into the said river on the south, near Priory Orchard; one from above Ware Weir into the same on the south-west near Stansted Bridge; one from below Stansted Bridge into the said river above Stansted Mill; one from above Field's or Rye Bridge Weir to any part between Archer's Weir and Field's Weir on the north-west; one from Dobb's Weir or the New Turnpike to the head of Broxbourn Mill; one from above Carthagena Turnpike to a little below the same; one from above King's Weir over Cheshunt Mill Stream, into the river near the west tail stream of Waltham Abbey Powder Mills; one from above Sotheby's Upper Weir, or Newman's Weir, to Enfield Mill Stream one hundred yards southwards below Enfield Lock, and thence to run through Enfield Mill Stream, to within three hundred and forty yards northward of and above Enfield Corn Mill; thence another cut to the eastward of the said mill stream, again communicating with the river two hundred and four yards below Enfield Mill, from thence to run through as much of the said mill tail stream as shall be necessary; one through part of Enfield and Edmonton Marshes, across the ditch parting Edmonton and Tottenham Marshes, and through part of Tottenham Marsh into and through the tail stream of Tottenham Mill into the said river again; one from below Flander's Wharf to above the tail stream of Walthamstow Mill; one from between Lea Bridge and the buildings of the Hackney Water Works, through part of Hackney Marsh, into the said river between Padding Mill Stream and Hackney Brook, on the east of Jones's Calico Grounds at Old Ford; and one from between Bromley Lock and Bromley Hall, through the parishes and hamlets of Bromley St. Leonard's, Blackwall, Poplar, St.Dunstan