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 Aqueduct at Pont-y-Cysylte, in the parish of Llangollen, in the county of Denbigh; and also to make several Cuts or Feeders for better supplying the said Canal with Water; and by which the company are restrained from taking more water from the Dee, by the feeder, than they can replace from Bala Pool. On the 6th of April, 1810, the royal assent was given to another act, for the purpose of making a short branch to the town of Whitchurch; it is entitled, An Act to enable the Company of Proprietors of the Ellesmere Canal, to extend the Whitchurch Line of the said Canal from Sherryman's Bridge to Castle Well, in the town of Whitchurch, in the county of Salop; and for amending the several Acts for making the said Canal. This branch, (which is very short) and the basin and quays at its termination, were designed by Mr. Telford, whose estimate amounted to the sum of £2,284.

The act of the 53rd George III. was obtained for the purpose of uniting and consolidating the interests of the Ellesmere with the Chester Canal Company; it is therefore entitled, An Act for uniting the Interests and Concerns of the Proprietors of the Chester Canal and Ellesmere Canal; and for amending the several Acts of his present Majesty, relating to the said Canals, in the preamble of which, after reciting the several acts relating to the two navigations, and another act of the 47th George III. cap. 3, entitled, An Act for continuing the Term and altering and enlarging the Powers of an Act of the Twenty-sixth Year of his present Majesty, for amending the Road from Flookersbrook Bridge to the South End of Wilderspool Causeway, and from the town of Frodsham to Ashton Lane End, in the county of Chester, so far as respects the Chester District of the said Roads; and for extendding the same from the present Termination thereof at Flookersbrook Bridge aforesaid, to the North End of Cow Lane Bridge, in the city of Chester, and for making a new Road from such proposed Extension of the said Road, to the North End of Queen Street in the same city, the two canal companies are incorporated by the name of" The United Company of Proprietors of the Ellesmere and Chester Canals." By this act the proprietors of each share of the Chester Canal were, after the 30th of June in this year, admitted to one fourth of a share in the united navigation, making in the whole fifty of such shares.