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In the following year a second act, the title of which sufficiently explains its purport, was granted, as 'An Act to alter and amend an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, entitled, An Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal, from Kirkby Kendal in the county of Westmoreland, to West Houghton in the county palatine of Lancaster, and also a navigable Branch from the said intended Canal at or near Barwick, to or near Warton Cragg, and also another navigable Branch, from, at or near, Galemoss, by Chorley, to or near Duxbury in the said county palatine of Lancaster; and also for making a navigable Branch from the said Canal at or near Galgate, to Glasson Dock, in the said county palatine of Lancaster.' The next act, obtained in 1796, and entitled, 'An Act to enable his Majesty, in Right of his Duchy of Lancaster, to make a Grant of certain Lands,for the Purpose of carrying into Execution an Act passed in the Thirty-second of his present Majesty, entitled, An Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal,from Kirhby Kendal in the county of Westmoreland, to West Houghton in the county palatine of Lancaster, and also a navigable Branch from the said intended Canal at or near Barwick, to or near Warton Cragg, and also another navigable Branch, from, at or near, Galemoss, by Chorley, to or near Duxbury in the said county palatine of Lancaster,' was merely to enable his Majesty, as Duke of Lancaster, to grant the company certain lands in that duchy. The fourth act, entitled, 'An Act for enabling the Company of Proprietors of the Lancaster Canal Navigation to complete the same,' was obtained in 1800, for the purpose of enabling the proprietors to raise the additional £200,000, mentioned in the first act, by creating new shares.

An act, entitled, 'An Act to enable the Company of Proprietors of the Lancaster Canal Navigation, to vary the Course of the said Canal, and to make Railways or Roads, and to amend and render more effectual Two Acts relating to the said Navigation,' was obtained in 1807, whereby the proprietors were empowered to vary the line between Tewit Field in the parish of Warton and a place called the World's End, in the parish of Hincaster; also to make a railway from Farlton Knott in the parish of Beetham, to communicate with the said variation in Kelnhall