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Two volumes of press cuttings concerning Dee Conservancy, the Dee Railway Bridge, etc., 1882-1886.

A brief on behalf of the promoters of the Dee Conservancy Bill and to oppose the Dee Conservancy and Improvement (No. 2) Bill in the House of Lords, 1885, with further observations, a case for the opinion of the Hon. R. C. Grosvenor, a draft letter to the press, extracts from the argument of Horace Davey, Q.C., counsel for the Dee Company in the mater of the Baroness Wenlock and others v. the River Dee Company, and a summary of the objections of the North Wales Coalowners' Association to the Bill, with press cuttings.

Copies of correspondence between Evan Morris, Wrexham, and the Town Clerk of Chester concerning the River Dee Conservancy Bill, 23 February - 23 March 1885; a marked copy of the Chester Courant, 25 March 1885; a report of the meeting of Chester Town Council, 6 May 1885; a memorial of the River Dee Company, 1889; minutes of meetings, 1 January - 19 August 1889, held at Chester in support of the Dee Conservancy and Improvement (No. 1) Bill, and a plan of a bridge over the River Dee.

A report by Henry Robertson upon the improvement of the navigation of the river Dee, 20 August 1849; a memorandum as to proceedings taken by the River Dee Company for the levying of tolls, 9 June 1859; a statement concerning Acts relating to the River Dee from 1674, 1883; a report by James Abernethy, 7 November 1883; a table of soundings from Chester to Cop House, 1854-1884; a brief for the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway Company against the Dee Conservancy and Improvement Bill in the house of Lords, 1884; and a statement as to the rights and positions of the various parties having interests in the River Dee, 1884.

A register of conveyances, 1892-3, by the Dee Land Company.

A notice from the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway Company to Henry Robertson, M.P., and Benjamin Piercy to treat concerning certain lands in Wrexham, 8 August 1885; a mortgage, 1 December 1886, from H. Robertson to B. Piercy of land at Wepre in Hawarden and Northop; an agreement, 5 December 1887, between Messrs. Robertson and Piercy and the London and North Western Railway Company for the sale and purchase of lands in Northop; a letter from Messrs. McKenzie & Holland, Worcester, to W. Davies, Wrexham, concerning Pen-y-ffordd signalling, 14 January 1888; specifications for fencing and level crossing gates, 1888; an agreement, 14 June 1888, between the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway Company, and the Wirral Railway Company, and the Seacombe, Hoylake, and Deeside Railway Company, for mutual running powers; an agreement, 25 July 1889, between (1) The River Dee Company, (2) the Right. Hon. Elizabeth Dowager Baroness Wenlock, and the Hon. Caryl Craven Molyneux, (3) the Credit Company Ltd., (4) Hubert Barrow Doo and Horatio Nelson Williams, and (5) the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Company, concerning lands in Northop and Hawarden; a brief on behalf of the promoters of the Wirral Railway (No. 3) Bill, 1790; an agreement, 15 July 1890, between Francis George Whitwham, Edmund Bowen Bernard, Henry Egerton Piercy and the Railways and General Company Ltd. for the sale and purchase of railway stock; an agreement, 22 September 1891, between the Cambrian Railway, the Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway, the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway, and the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway companies as to the running powers; forms for underwriting the capital of the Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway Company, and a copy of the Report of the Directors and Statements of Accounts of the company, 1892, and a note on the Brymbo and Mold line, 1865-1866.