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TONNAGE RATES.
The Duties received in the Port of Llanelly, to be entirely applied to the Purposes of improving the Lliedi.

EXEMPTION FROM DUTIES.
All Vessels employed in his Majesty's Service; or in conveying Limestone or Fish; and all Vessels for Pleasure, or such as are under Fifteen Tons.

There is a clause, reserving to the Duke of Beaufort the rights and privileges of water-bailiff for the seigniories of Gower and Cilrey, in the county of Glamorgan; also the rights of the Lords of Kidwelly, the layer and keelage of the Carmarthenshire side of the Loughor; or the rights of the portreeve and burgesses of Llanelly; the Carmarthenshire Railroad Company; the Kidwelly and Llanelly Canal and Tramroad Company; the Borough of Loughor; the Penclawdd Canal and Tramroad Company; and the corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond.

These rivers, together with the canals and railroads connected with them, give great facility for the export of the produce of the valuable collieries, iron-stone mines, and limestone quarries in the immediate vicinity.

BUTE SHIP CANAL.
1 William IV. Cap. 133, Royal Assent 16th July, 1830.

This canal commences in Cardiff Harbour, at a place called The Eastern Hollows, near the mouth of the River Taft in the county of Glamorgan. Its course is in a straight line northwards to Cardiff Moors, and thence in a parallel course with the Glamorganshire Canal to near Whitnioor Lane, on the south side of the town of Cardiff, where it terminates. The length of that part lying between the Eastern Hollows and Cardiff Moors, (called The Entrance Ship Canal) is one mile, three furlongs and eight chains in length; the surface water of which is to be maintained at an elevation of 41 feet above the level of low-water-mark, spring tides, in Cardiff Harbour, which here averages 39 feet, by means of a sea lock and flood gates to be erected at its southern extremity; the depth of water in the canal is to be 33 feet. The