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the property of this canal is vested in the company of proprietors, who are to be responsible for all debts formerly, now, or hereafter contracted. The books of accounts and all other documents kept under former acts are to be retained as evidence, and the company has power generally to maintain the canal already made, to make reservoirs for supplying the Warwick and Napton Canal with water, and for rendering navigable the following cuts, which are so numerous and difficult to describe, as to induce us to use the words of the act.

A cut or canal from the Oxford Canal at Five Acres, in Sow, to join the Oxford Canal at Sow Common, to the westward of a bridge called Stone Bridge; also a cut or canal from the Oxford Canal at Colt's Close, in Sow aforesaid, to join the Oxford Canal at Culvert Close, to the south-westward of a bridge called Cater's Bridge; also a cut or canal from the Oxford Canal at Noon Hill, in Ansty in the county of the city of Coventry, to join the Oxford Canal at Topcoal Piece, in Shilton in the county of Warwick; also a cut or canal from the Oxford Canal, opposite to the termination of the last-mentioned cut or canal in Shilton aforesaid, to join the Oxford Canal at a garden in the occupation of Joseph Astell, in Ansty aforesaid; also a cut or canal from the Oxford Canal, at Bottom Mill Field, in Ansty, to the eastward of a bridge called Squire's Bridge, to join the Oxford Canal at Bridge Close, in Ansty aforesaid; also a cut or canal from the Oxford Canal opposite to the termination of the last-described cut or canal in Ansty aforesaid, to join the Oxford Canal at Hill Close, in Ansty aforesaid; also a cut or canal from the Oxford Canal opposite to the termination of the last-described cut or canal in Ansty aforesaid, to join the Oxford Canal at Horse Close, in Combe in the county of Warwick, to the eastward of a bridge called Pridmore's Foot Bridge; also a cut or canal from the Oxford Canal opposite to the termination of the last-described cut or canal in Combe aforesaid, to join the Oxford Canal, at Broad Ground, in Combe afore said; also a cut or canal from the Oxford Canal at Broad Ground, in Combe aforesaid, to join the Oxford Canal at Horse Close, in Combe aforesaid; also a cut or canal from the Oxford Canal at House Ground, in Combe aforesaid, to join the Oxford Canal at Combe aforesaid, to the southward of a bridge called