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Leiccst’rt- The allowed tonnage is as follows :

Whvigauon. Por coa ] f rom Loughborough to Leicester, fourteen-pence perton. For any shorter distance, one penny per ton per mile.

But for coal passing to the river Wreak for Melton Mowbray,feven-pence per ton.

For timber, iron, &c. from Loughborough to Leicester, twoshillings and fix-pence per ton. For any shorter distance, two-pence per ton per mile.

For the same passing to the river Wreak, and Melton Mow-bray, one shilling and three-pence per ton.

For lime, lime-stone, stones for building, and materials forroads, &c. one half of the above rates.

For coal conveyed on the rail-ways and water levels, from theseveral places to Loughborough, one penny per ton per mile.

For lime and lime-stone carried on the rail-ways, three-half-pence per ton per mile.

And for the fame carried on the water levels, three farthings perton per mile.

Commissioners may lower the tolls ; in which cafe, goods pass-ing to Melton Mowbray navigation are in no cafe to pay morethan half the regulated tolls.

The powers of this act have been long wished for, and foughtwith much activity. Perseverance has at last obtained the desiredobject, which will open a cheap and ready conveyance for the pro-duce of the mines, which so plentifully abound in the neighbour-hood of Thringston-bridge ; tending not only to a vast improvedvalue of those estates, but also accommodating, at a cheap rate,a great extent of country with coal, lime, &c. pasting one wayinto the river Trent with all its extents, the other way to thepopulous towns of Leicester and Melton Mowbray ; from which

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