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 £46,000, in four hundred and sixty shares, of £100 each, and an additional sum of £20,000, if necessary, either among themselves, or on mortgage of the undertaking.

TONNAGE RATES.
Fractions to be paid as for a full Mile, and as for a Quarter of a Ton.

EXEMPTION FROM RATES.
Small Rubbish or Waste Stones, Paving or other Stones. Gravel and Sand for the repairs of Roads, in any Township through which the Canal passes; Dung, Soil, Marl, Ashes of Coal and Turf, and all other Manure, (except Lime used for the Improvement of Lands, in any Township through which the Canal is made, and carried only at such Times as when the Water is running over the Lock Weirs.)

By a Clause in 29th George III. the Erewash Canal Company agree to take only One-half of the Rates they were authorized to take by the 17th George III. for all Goods (except Coke or Coal) which shall pass along the said Canal out of the Cromford CanaL

The Cromford Canal Company are entitled to Wharfage for any Article laying longer than Six Months.

For the Purposes of this Act Fifty Cubic Feet of Round, or Forty Feet of Square Oak, Ash, Elm, or Beech Timber, or Fifty Feet of Fir, or Deal, Balk, Poplar, or other Timber Wood, shall be deemed One Ton.

Nine Score Pounds Avoirdupois of Limestone; and Six Score Pounds of Unwrought Stone, Coal, and other Articles, shall be deemed a Hundred Weight.

Proprietors of estates may make railways and cuts to communicate with this canal, on payment of damages done by crossing the lands of other persons; they may also erect warehouses and wharfs, but the charges for the latter are limited by the act as follows.

RATES ON PRIVATE WHARFS.
Provided that they do not remain more than Six Days (except Coal, Iron, and Iron-stone which may remain Six Months,) and Timber, Clay, Lime, Iron-stone, Stone, Brick, Tile, Slate, or Gravel, may remain Thirty Days. If any Articles remain for the Space of Ten Days over the several Periods as above, One Penny per Ton per Day for every Day such Ten Days, as above-mentioned, are exceeded.