company have occasionally called in Mr. Whitworth, to inspect the works. The whole of the sum of £95,000, authorized to be raised by the act, was subscribed before the application to parliament. The management of this work is vested in a committee of eighteen persons.
Besides the authority which the act gives the company to make the canal, they are empowered to improve the harbour of Bude, by erecting a breakwater, together with a dock, basin, or inner harbour, warehouses, piers, quays, wharfs, and jetties, mooring chains, lighthouses, buoys, and what other works may be necessary for the convenient accommodation of such ships and vessels as resort to the same. They are restricted from taking any water from the Tamar, or the brooks which flow into it, except when the water flows 3 inches over the weir at Aldfordisworthy Mill.
The chief object of this canal, is to facilitate the introduction of Welsh Coal, and the carrying of Shelly Sand from the coast, to be used in the interior as manure.
BULLO PILL OR FOREST OF DEAN RAILWAY
- 49 George III. Cap. 158, Royal Assent 10th June, 1809.
- 7 George IV. Cap. 47, Royal Assent 5th May1 1826.
Prior to the act of 49th George III. a railroad had been nearly completed, without the authority of parliament, from the Severn at Bullo Pill, near the town of Newnham, to Cinderford Bridge, in his Majesty's Forest of Dean, by Roynon Jones, Esq. Margaret Roberts, William Fendall and James Jelf, Esquires, the owners, but who, being desirous of obtaining power to extend their railway, and to make branches therefrom, applied to parliament and obtained an act, entitled, 'An Act for making and maintaining a Railway or Tramroad, from the summit of the Hill above Churchway Engine, in the Forest of Dean, in the county of Gloucester, to a certain place in the said Forest, called Cinderford Bridge,' by which the above parties are incorporated by the name of "The Bullo Pill Railway Company."
