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In 1818 a third act was obtained to alter and enlarge the powers of those previously granted, and is entitled, 'An Act to explain and amend an Act of the Fifty-second of his present Majesty, entitled, An Act for the improving of the Harbour of Kidwelly, and for making and maintaining a navigable Canal, or Tramroads, in Kidwelly and Llanelly, and other parishes therein mentioned, in the county of Carmarthen, and to alter and enlarge the Powers thereof.' By this act the company are enabled to raise the harbour dues of Kidwelly, from one half-penny to one penny per ton, on the registered burthen of all vessels entering and using this harbour.

If the works are not completed in six years from the date of the act, then its powers are to cease; and if any persons, desirous of making any collateral cut, branch or railway, authorized by this or the former acts, shall advance to the company a sufficient sum of money for making the same, then they may call upon the company to complete the same, and in case of refusal, the parties themselves are authorized to make it, and shall be accounted proprietors of one £100 share, for every hundred pounds bonafide expended on the making of the said branch, cut or tramroad. There are two small detached tramroads, one at Machynis Pool, the other at the Loughor Mines.

KILMARNOCK RAILWAY.
48 George III. Cap. 46, Royal Assent 27th May, 1808.

THIS railway, commencing near the town of Kilmarnock, in the county of Ayr in Scotland, pursues a westerly course for about half its length; it then turns at almost right angles to the south, and terminates at the Troon, having traversed between its two points, Kilmarnock and the Troon, a distance of nine miles and six furlongs, and passing, in its way, by the estates of Fairlie and Robertland, both belonging to the family of Sir William Cunningham.

The design, for which it was projected, was to open a cheaper and easier conveyance than heretofore, for coal, lime and minerals, as well as for the goods, wares and merchandize used and