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No boat less than twenty tons, nor less than seventy feetlong, (hall pass any lock without leave.

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Owners and occupiers of lands may use husbandry boats freeof rates, but not broader than five feet, nor to pass any lock,nor carry for hire.

The activity of Birmingham is in nothing more conspicuousthan in projecting of canals, and surely the great numberwhich surround that town is the best possible evidence of theirgreat utility, if the old maxim still remains in force, viz. " ex-perience teaches ,” and habited as the monied men of Birming-ham are, to calculations of profits.

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The navigation of the Avon reaching no higher than Stratford,the town of Warwick has been without any water convey-ance ; that essential article coal will now be supplied from theWednesbury works at a cheap rate, and in any quantities:the line of county also through which the canal passes is notdeficient in minerals, so that the benefits arising from thisscheme, mav be looked upon as giving pretty general satis-faction.

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