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 ; from thence, however, its course was continued, under powers granted by subsequent acts, to the sound at Sutton Pool, a short distance south of Plymouth.

The original line to Crabtree was twenty miles in length, the estimate of which was made by Mr. William Stuart, amounting to £45,000. The original design for communicating with Sutton Pool, and for which authority is given under the act of 1st George IV. was in length two miles and three furlongs, with two branches, one to the limeworks at Catsdown, one mile, two furlongs and eight chains in length, and another diverging from the Sutton Pool Branch, of two furlongs and two chains in length, the estimate for which amounted to the additional sum of £5,677; these, however, have given place to one branch from Crabtree to Catsdown, and from thence to Sutton Pool. The first act for its execution was obtained in 1819, under the title of 'An Act for making and maintaining a Railway or Tramroad from Crabtree, in the parish of Egg Buckland, in the county of Devon, to communicate with the Prison of War on the Forest of Dartmoor, in the parish of Lydford, in the said county.' By this act the company, incorporated as " The Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway Company," has the power of constructing the railway and all necessary works connected with the same. The proprietors are to contribute, for these purposes, the sum of £27,783, in shares of £50 each and parts of shares; but should this prove inadequate for the completion of the work, they may raise, either by subscription, or by the admission of new subscribers, or by mortgage of the works, a further sum of £5,000. For paying the interest of the money advanced and other incidental expenses, the company may charge the following