An act for making and maintaining a navigable canal from or near the town of Stourbridge, in the county of Worcester, to join the Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal, at or near Stourton, in the county of Stafford; and also two collateral cuts, one from a place called the Fens, upon Pensnet Chace, to communicate with the intended canal near the junction of Wordesley Brook with the River Stour; and the other from a place called Black Delph, upon the said chace, to join the first-mentioned collateral cut, at or near certain lands called the Lays, in the parish of Kingswinford, in the said county of Stafford.

Author/creator Great Britain
Format Electronic
Publication Info[London] : [publisher not identified], [1776]
Description2 unnumbered pages, 81, 1 unnumbered page, 10 pages, plate : map ; 2⁰.
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Uniform titleBills. 1776
General noteWith a drop-head title.
General noteThe docket title on verso of p.81 is dated 1776.
General noteWith a preliminary leaf, entitled: 'Reference to the plan of the intended canal', meant to accompany the map.
General noteThe 10p. section at end is entitled: 'Index to the Stourbridge canal act.' - Below the map's title: "Surveyed in 1774. by Robert Whitworth. Engrav'd by Jefferys and Faden geographers to the King. 1775." - Enacted: Public General Acts, 16 Geo.III.c.28.
General noteReproduction of original from British Library.
References English Short Title Catalog, T224510.
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