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TONNAGE RATES CONTINUED.
Fractions to be taken as for a Quarter of a Ton, and as for Half a Mile.

Boats under Twenty Tons lading not to pass any Lock without leave, or without paying for that Tonnage.

RAILROAD DUES.
As the making of this canal would materially increase the value of the shares in the Monmouthshire Canal Navigation, that company agreed to give the Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal Proprietors the sum of £3,000; also to take the same tonnage upon their navigation, on all articles conveyed along any part of the Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal, as that company were empowered to collect.

In 1804, this company, having expended the money authorized to be raised under the preceding act, applied to parliament and obtained an act to enable them to raise an additional fund to complete their works, entitled,  'An Act for enabling the Company of Proprietors of the Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal to raise a further Sum of Money for completing the said Canal, and the Works thereto belonging; and for altering and enlarging the Powers of an Act made in the Thirty-third Year of his present Majesty, for making the said Canal.' 

As this canal skirts the rich mineral districts of Monmouth and Glamorgan, and has a direct communication with the Bristol Channel, by means of the Monmouthshire Canal, every facility is afforded for the export of its valuable productions, which was the ostensible object of its promoters. 

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 * 10 Geo.II C. 22, R. A. 22nd Apr. 1737.
 * 32 Geo. II C. 2, R. A. 23rd Mar. 1759.
 * 33 Geo. II. C. 2, R. A. 24th Mar.1760.
 * 2 Geo. III. C. 11, R. A. 24th Mar. 1762.
 * 6 Geo. III. C. 17, R. A. 18th Mar. 1766.
 * 35 Geo. III. C.44, R. A. 28th Apr. 1795.

THE 32nd George II. is the first act of parliament, under power of which the execution of this navigation was commenced,