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 called The Lower Layer, below the said town, was obtained chiefly for the purpose expressed in the title, viz, the extension to a point nearer the sea, and to obtain power to raise the additional sum of £10,000 among themselves, in proportion to their respective shares, for the completion of the line of extension, and for no other purpose whatsoever. But if this last-mentioned sum is insufficient, £10,000 more may be contributed; but upon this no more profit than five per cent, per annum shall be received. Two years only, from the date of the last act, are allowed for the completion of the whole of the works.

On consideration of the Marquis and Marchioness of Bute giving consent to the making of the extension, they and their tenants of the ground on the west side of the extension, have the privilege of using the canal and towing path below the south gate of the town of Cardiff, without payment of rates.

The chief object of this navigation and the railways with which it is connected, is to facilitate the export of the vast quantity of coal, iron-stone, and other ores and minerals which are worked in great abundance on its line, and in particular at Merthyr Tidvile and its immediate vicinity.

GLASGOW, PAISLEY, AND ARDROSSAN CANAL AND RAILWAY.
46 George III. Cap. 75, Royal Assent 20th June, 1806.

7 &amp; 8 George IV. Cap. 87, Royal Assent 14th June, 1827.

THE canal commences from Tradestown, or Port Eglinton, on the west side of the city of Glasgow, whence it takes a western course, approaching the northern bank of the White Cart River, along which it continues to near the town of Paisley, where it crosses the above-mentioned river, and passes on the south of that town, to Johnstone, where it terminates.

The railway commences at the canal wharf at Johnstone, and takes a south-westerly course, running parallel with, and on the east side of the Black Cart, and by Lochs Swinnock and Tanker, and along the eastern bank of the River Rye, which it crosses near Blair House, and continues along the course of that river to near the village of Kilwinning, whence it takes a westward