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] |
| Description | 2 unnumbered pages, 81, 1 unnumbered page, 10 pages, plate : map ; 2⁰. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text online |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Bills. 1776 |
| General note | With a drop-head title. |
| General note | The docket title on verso of p.81 is dated 1776. |
| General note | With a preliminary leaf, entitled: 'Reference to the plan of the intended canal', meant to accompany the map. |
| General note | The 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 note | Reproduction of original from British Library. |
| References | English Short Title Catalog, T224510. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
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