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 whereby certain commissioners were appointed for making navigable the River Narr from King's Lynn to West Acre, and for borrowing £3,500 on security of certain tolls to be levied on vessels using the navigation. The work was commenced, and the various sums of money so borrowed became, in process of time, the property of the Rev. Henry Spelman, to whom also, in December, 1769, an arrear of interest amounting to £1,154, 19s. 7d. was due, without the works being completed. The commissioners applied to parliament for another act, authorizing the said interest to be reckoned in future as a capital sum due to the said Mr. Spelman, who also engaged to furnish a further sum of £1,345, 0s. 5d. in order to pay the cost of the said second act and to complete the works. The act was in consequence obtained under the title of 'An Act to enlarge the Powers of an Act of the Twenty-fourth of his late Majesty, for making the River Narr navigable from the town and port of King's Lynn to Westacre, in the county of Norfolk, and for making the said Act more effectual.' By this act £800 are to be forthwith expended in repairs; £600 thereof in the river above Narborough, and £200 below. The debt owing to Mr. Spelman, his heirs or assigns, may be reduced by a notice of six months, signed by nine or more of the commissioners.

At the time this work was finished, it was an important benefit to the port of Lynn, and has apparently answered the purpose for which it was undertaken.

NEATH CANAL NAVIGATION.
31 George III. Cap. 85, Royal Assent 6th June, 1791.

38 George III. Cap. 30, Royal Assent 26th May, 1798.

BY the first act passed in 1791, and entitled, 'An Act for making and maintaining a Canal or navigable Communication from or near a certain Place called Abernant, in the county of Glamorgan, to or through a certain Place called the Brickfield, near Melincrytham Pill, into the street of Neath, near the town of Neath, in time said county,' power was given to certain persons, incorporated as "The Company of Proprietors of the Neath Canal Navigation," to purchase lands and to undertake the