Lancaster Canal Transfer Act 1864: An Act for authorizing a Lease of a Portion of the Undertaking of the Company of Proprietors of the Lancaster Canal Navigation to the Company of Proprietors of the Canal Navigation from Leeds to Liverpool, and of the Remainder thereof to the London and North-western Railway Company; and for other Purposes.
WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Thirty-second Year of King George the Third, Chapter One hundred and one, intituled An Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal from Kirkby Kendal in the County of Westmoreland to West Houghton in the County Palatine of Lancaster, and also a navigable Branch from the said intended Canal at or near Borwick to or near Warton Crag, and also another navigable Branch from at or near Gale Moss by Chorley to or near Duxbury i...