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rail-ways to the canal, without paying any rates, &c. providedthe carriage be made according to the direction of the com-mittee.

For travelling. For every horse or ass, one penny.

For every cow or other neat cattle, one halfpenny.

For all sheep, swine, and calves, Jive-pence per score.

Five per cent. on the profits is to be deducted until lOOOl.shall be accumulated as a bank; to be invested in governmentsecurities, and to be applied to exigencies. When this sum.shall be reduced to 500I. the reduction of five per cent. shallthen again commence, &c. Also when the clear profits ariseto more than ten per cent. the tonnage on coals shall be re-duced to two-pence per ton per mile.

For wharfage of coal and coak, remaining more than four-teen days, and other goods more than forty-eight hours, areasonable compensation shall be made.

Vessels laden with hay, straw, materials for repair of roads,or manure, are not to pass any lock without consent, unlessthe water flows over the waste weir, or unless boats returningor going to the collieries for a loading, &c. Boats undertwenty tons not to pass any lock without leave, or payingthat tonnage.

Owners and occupiers of adjoining lands may use pleasureand husbandry boats without paying any rates, provided thefame do not exceed five feet wide and twelve feet long.

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