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roads, lime intended for manure, and for all other kinds of ma-nure, three-halfpence per ton per mile.

Vessels laden as above not to pass locks, unless the waterflows over the waste weir next above the lock, without con-sent of the company.

For iron, lead, timber, and all other goods, wares, merchan-dise, &c. five-pence per ton per mile.

And, on the rail-ways, for every horse, mule, or ass, passing thetoll-gates, one penny ; and for cows, and horned or neat cattle,one halfpenny each.

Five per cent. of the clear profits of this undertaking is to be in-vested in government securities, till the fame shall amount to onethousand pounds, as a fund for repairs. When the profits shallenable the company to share ten per cent. the commissioners areimpowered to reduce the tolls ; the reduction to be first oncoals. If, in consequence of the reductions, ten per cent. cannotbe divided, the tolls may be advanced. Boats under twenty tonsare not to pass locks without leave, or paying for that quantity.

Every advantage resulting from canals in general may be expect-ed from this in particular; no tract of country stood more in needof such a conveyance, nor can any be more benefited by it. Herethe bowels of the earth are loaded with precious minerals—hither-to unsought for, and little known, merely for the want of an easyconveyance to market. This once obtained, old mines will beexplored, new ones discovered, and mother earth ransackedfor her hidden treasures. Nor will the stately forests on her surfacelonger remain neglected; all must yield to the convertinghand of industry. Possessions will receive a great increase invalue, and the labourer find lasting food for his perseverance on

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