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ADDENDA.

Grand

Junction

Canal.

London, for the better improvement of the navigation of theriver Thames, an additional rate of one halfpenny per ton,upon all goods which shall pass into or out of this canal.—And it is further enacted, that if the said toll of one halfpennyper ton granted heretofore to the city of London, and the ad-ditional toll of one halfpenny per ton, granted by this act, shallnot amount to 200I. from April 30, 1790, to Midsummer1795, and to 500I. in 1796, and to 600I. in 1797, and to700I. in 1798, and to 800I. in 1799, and to 900I. in 1800,and to 1000I. in i8or, and every subsequent year, and if thesaid tolls do not produce the sums above specified, the same isto be made good by this company.

No coals, culm, or cinders, are to be conveyed by this canalnearer to London than the mouth of the Tunnel at LangleyBury, on penalty of Hoi.

By an act of the succeeding session viz. 34 Geo. III. chap. 24.The Grand Junction Canal Company are empowered to makea cut from the town of Buckingham to join the branch of thecanal at Old Stratford; also a cut from the town of Aylefbury,to join the canal at Marsworth, which is about two milesabove Tring. And also to make navigable the cut or feederfrom the town of Wendover, to join the canal at Bulbourne;which is about one mile above Tring; with all the powers formaking the same granted by the preceding act.

Mr. Sheppard, of Thornton, in the county of Bucks, orthe occupver, is allowed to use pleasure-boats and to pass thelock or locks at Thornton Mill near adjoining, without payingany rates of tonnage.

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