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Close in the township of Farlton, and another from the limestone rock at Kellet Seeds in the parish of Bolton-by-the-Sands to Over Kellet and Carnforth. By this act the power of taking water from the River Mint, is repealed.

The last act received the royal assent in 1819, under the title of 'An Act to alter and amend the several Acts passed for making and maintaining the Lancaster Canal Navigation.' It grants to the company the power of making reservoirs and feeders in the townships of Killington, New Hutton, Kirkby Lonsdale, and Kirkby-in-Kendal, and to convey the water from Crookland's Beck into the said canal; and to make a navigable branch from the said canal in the township of Whittle-le-Woods, at a place called Johnson's Hillock, to join and communicate with the present southern termination of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, which said branch shall be accounted part of the said Lancaster Canal Navigation. By this act is repealed a clause of the 32nd George III. authorizing the proprietors to take 2s. 3d. per ton for all coals passing the locks on the said canal on the south side of the Ribble. The proprietors are also empowered to raise £270,000, on mortgage of the rates and dues of the said canal, for the purpose of completing the said navigation and works. The proprietors of the Lancaster and the Leeds and Liverpool Canals are not to take water either from other of these works, when the depth shall be reduced to 5 feet upon the sill of the upper gates of the locks on the said Leeds and Liverpool Canal, adjoining the said Lancaster Canal, which sill is not to be lower than the bottom level of the said Lancaster Canal. We have before mentioned, that by uniting the two canals at Johnson's Hillock, a length of eleven miles was common to both canals; this length is actually part of the Lancaster Canal, but that company is confined by a specific agreement, not to charge more for goods passing out of the Leeds and Liverpool on it, than they would be liable to for the same distance, taking it as part of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. On the line of this canal there are two tunnels, one at Hincaster eight hundred yards long; the second at the Whittle Hills, not far from the junction with the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, three hundred yards long; there is also a remarkable piece of deep cutting at Ashton, near Lancaster.