the said Canal from the Whitchurch Branch thereof, at or near certain Water Corn Mills, called the New Mills, in the parish of Whitchurch, in the county of Salop, to, and to communicate with, the Chester Canal, in the township of Stoke, in the parish of Acton, in the county of Chester, and for altering and amending the several Acts passed for making and maintaining the said Ellesmere Canal; and under authority of which, this extension of the Whitchurch Branch, which is now part of the main line, was carried into execution.
In the year following the passing of the last-recited act, application was again made to parliament, when another was obtained, entitled, An Act for repealing so much of an Act passed in the Thirty-third Year of his present Majesty, entitled, An Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal from the River Severn, at Shrewsbury, in the county of Salop, to the River Mersey, at or near Netherpool, in the county of Chester; and also for making and maintaining certain collateral Cuts from the said intended Canal, as restrains the Company of Proprietors of the said Canal from taking Tonnage on Coals, Coke, Culm, Lime, or Limestone, upon any Part of the said Canal; and for authorizing the said Company of Proprietors to raise a Sum of Money to make up the Amount of their original Subscriptions, and for further amending the several Acts passed relative to the making of the said Canal; in the preamble of which it is stated, that as a considerable portion of the shares which had been apportioned to the landholders had not been taken, and that as the present stock of the company was only £333,000, instead of £400,000, the proprietors were desirous of raising the deficiency among themselves, without having recourse to the powers contained in the 33rd George III. for raising two several sums of £50,000, which the company are permitted to do by the admission of new subscribers; or they may raise it on promissory notes under the common seal.
The act of the 44th George III. was obtained chiefly for the purpose of enabling the company to make the Ruabon Brook Railway, and the feeders from the Dee, at Llantysilio, and Bala Pool, in Merionethshire; it is entitled, 'An Act to enable the Company of Proprietors of the Ellesmere Canal, to make a Railway from Ruabon Brook, to the Ellesmere Canal, at or near the
