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ADDENDA.

RiverTrent, RIVER TRENT, TO AMEND.

to Amend.

The Act for improving the navigation of the Trent, ob-tained this session, (34 Geo. III. eh. 95.) enables the proprie-tors to make a side cut, commencing at the mouths of theGrand Trunk Canal and the River Derwent, which willcross the Erewasli Canal and River, and pasting Beeston jointhe Nottingham Canal, skirt the south side of NottinghamTown, and fall into the Trent below Trent Bridge. The lengthof this cut is ten miles, with a fall of twenty-eight feet; bywhich twenty-one shoals and two bridges will be avoided in alength of thirteen miles, on the old navigation or river. Thecanal locks into the river at Beeston Meadow. For completingthis, the powers of former acts are extended to this, whichallows twenty yards for the breadth of the canal, towing-path,&c. Certain towing-paths are to be widened, new ones made,in places on both sides the river, &c. The proprietors are re-quired so to amend the river, that at all seasons, and in allplaces, there (hall be thirty inches of water; and that boats offorty tons lading may navigate. The capstern or halingmachine, at Nottingham, is to be purchased by this company,of the corporation of Nottingham, for the sum of 500I. Thesiffieries on the river are amply protected.

For t’ne purposes of this Act the company are authorised toraise the sum of 13,000!. to be divided into shares of 50I.each; no person to hold more than four shares: if the formersum is insufficient, io,O0ol. more may be borrowed on thetolls, &c.

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