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The act, which is entitled, 'An Act for making and maintaining certain Railways, to communicate with the Monmouthshire Canal Navigation; and for enabling the Company of Proprietors of that Navigation to raise a further Sum of Money to complete their Undertaking; and for explaining and amending the Acts passed in the Thirty-second and Thirty-seventh Years of his present Majesty's Reign, relating thereto,' directs that the Monmouthshire Canal Company shall make the tramroad from their canal, at Newport, for a distance of nine miles, to Tredegar Park; that for the next mile through the park it shall be made by Sir Charles Morgan; and that Samuel Homfray, Richard Fothergill, Matthew Monkhouse, William Thompson and William Forman, iron masters and intended lessees of the Tredegar Iron Works, shall complete the railway from the Nine Mile Point to Sirhowey Furnaces. The act incorporates them by the title of "The Sirhowey Tramroad Company," and empowers them to rase amongst themselves £30,000, in three hundred shares of £100 each; and if necessary a further sum of £15,000, either amongst themselves, by creation of new shares, or by mortgage of the undertaking as a security; and they, as well as Sir Charles Morgan, are authorized to take the same tolls and rates on those portions of the tramroad respectively made by them, as are taken by the proprietors of the Monmouthshire Canal, and are stated under that article. This company is to pay the Monmouthshire Canal Company £110 per annum, in consideration of that company making a mile more in length of the railway than was originally agreed upon.

SLEAFORD NAVIGATION.
32 George III. Cap. 106, Royal Assent 11th June, 1794.

THE company of proprietors who carried into effect the purposes of this act of parliament, which is entitled, 'An Act for making and maintaining a Navigation from Sleaford Castle Causeway, through the town of Sleaford, in the county of Lincoln, along the course of Sleaford Mill Stream and Kyme Eau, to the River Witham, at or near Chappel Hill, in the same county; and for