ADDENDA.
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Grand
Junction
Canal.
use of the king’s navy, or any stores, &c. belonging to hismajesty’s naval or military service; the persons having suchthings in charge to produce a proper certificate from the navyor ordnance boards; also, gravel, and sand for making or repair-ing any public roads. Provided the same do not pass any lockbut when the water shall flow over the waste weir.
Goods, &c. laying on wharfs , &c. more than twenty-fourhours, to pay a reasonable allowance for the same.
The navigation to be free on paying the rates, &c. and openbetween the hours of seven and five in the months of Novem-ber, December, January, and February, between the hours offive and seven in March, April, September, and October, andbetween the hours of four and nine in May, June, July, andAugust; and provided that no boat of less than sixty feet longand twelve feet broad, or of less than thirty tons burthen, dopass any lock without consent, unless the water shall flow overthe waste weir, or paying for thirty tons; unless there shallnot be sufficient depth of water in the locks, then to pay forno more than the water will enable to carry. All fractionsof a mile to be deemed as a mile, but fractions of a ton, topay in proportion of the quarters of a ton.
Exemption. Owners of land through which the canal passes,for their own uses only, are allowed to carry free of tolls,dung, marie, foil, or compost (lime and lime-stone excepted ;)but if the same pass any lock, then to be liable to the cus-tomary rates.
By agrement between the Oxford Canal Company and theproprietors of this canal, it is enacted that the following ratesonly shall be demanded, viz.
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