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WHARFAGE RATES.

 * More than 24 Hours, and not more than Six Days. + Six Days, but less than One Month. ± One Month, but less than Six Weeks. § Six Weeks, but less than Two Months. II Two Months, but less than Ten Weeks.

Sixteen Cubic Feet of Stone, Ten Superficial Yards of Flag Paving-stone, (from One to Two Inches and Three Quarters Thick,) Ten Yards of Lineal Curb Stone, (from Eleven to Thirteen Inches Wide and from Five to Seven Inches Thick,) Forty Cubic Feet of English Oak Timber, Fifty Cubic Feet of Elm, Ash, and other English Timber, Fifty Cubic Feet of Fir, and all other Foreign Timber, Thirty Deals of Battens, (Twelve Feet Long, Three Inches Thick, and from Nine to Twelve Inches Broad,) shall be respectively deemed One Ton for the Purposes of this Act.

EXEMPTION FROM TONNAGE RATES.
Dung, Soil, Marl, Ashes of Coal and Turf and all other Manure, except Lime, for the Improvement of Lands through which the Canal is intended to pass; all Materials for the repairs of Roads, (except Flag, Curb, and Paving-stones,) provided they do not pass a Lock, except at such Times as when the Water flows over the Waste Weir.

Vessels of less Burthen than Thirty Tons not to pass through Locks without leave, unless they pay Tonnage for the same as for a Boat of Thirty Tons, laden with Coal.

The company are restricted from taking, for the supply of the canals and branches, any water from Blacker Brook or Hollin Well Spring, in the township of Worsbrough; or from the River Dove or Dodworth Brook, except for the purpose of filling the reservoir in Stainbro' Valley, at a time of flood water.

This act authorizes proprietors of lands to make railways to any mines within one thousand yards of the canal; but in the parish of Wath, they may extend them two thousand yards. The