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The work was commenced immediately on obtaining the act; but it having been found expedient to make the canal of a greater width than at first proposed, and this alteration costing more than was originally estimated, a second act was obtained in 1826, bearing the title of 'An Act to amend an Act for making a Canal from Counter's Bridge, on the Road from London to Hammersmith, to the River Thames, in the county of Middlesex, and to enable the Kensington Canal Company to raise a further Sum for the completing of the said Canal.' By this act the company were authorized to raise a further sum of £30,000 by the usual means, and the term of completing the canal was prolonged for three years.

Mr. Thomas Hollinsworth was the engineer employed, and his estimate for the canal, to be 9,000 feet long, was, for completing the same, with

This canal, though of limited extent, is of great service for the purposes which gave rise to its projection.

KENYON AND LEIGH RAILWAY.
10 George IV. Cap. 36, Royal Assent 14th May, 1829.

THE Kenyon and Leigh Railway was projected with a view to connect the Bolton and Leigh Railway with that of the Liverpool and Manchester, and the act for completing the same obtained the sanction of the legislature as above, under the title of 'An Act for making a Railway from the Bolton and Leigh Railway in the township of West Leigh, to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, in the township of Kenyon, with a Branch therefrom, in the county of Lancaster.' By this act the company, under the title of "The Kenyon and Leigh Junction Railway Company," are empowered to make a railway from the Bolton and Leigh Railway, within the township of West Leigh, and extending to or passing through Leigh, Winwich, Pennington and Kenyon, or some of them, and terminating at the Liverpool and Manchester