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TONNAGE RATES.
And so in proportion for any greater or less Quantity than a Ton, and to pay but once a Voyage, notwithstanding they may have lading both inward and outward.

For the Purposes of this Act the Tonnage of Vessels is directed to be ascertained in the following Manner- the Length of the Keel to be multiplied by the Breadth between Planks on the Midship Beam, and that Product again by Half the Breadth for the Depth, and the Whole divided by 94; the Quotient, under this Operation, to be deemed the Number of Tons Burthen of such Ship. Skins or Wool to be charged by Weight, and not by the Burthen of the Ship. Vessels loaded within any Dock, to pay, according to the Burthen of the Ship, Sixpence per Ton,

Of the Sum of £10,000, invested in the South Sea Annuity Stock, the Sum remaining, amounting to £7,180, 3s. 6d. was, by the Act, transferred to the Company; and it is also enacted, that unless the River Dee is maintained a Fifteen Feet Navigation at moderate springs, that the Rates and Duties are entirely to cease, until it is restored to that Depth.

By an act of the 26th George II. entitled, '' 'An Act for confirming an Agreement entered into between the Company of Proprietors of the Undertaking for recovering and preserving the Navigation of the River Dee, and Sir John Glynne, Bart. Lord of the Manor of Hawarden, and several Freeholders and Occupiers of Land within the said Manor; and for explaining and amending Three several Acts of Parliament of the Sixth, Fourteenth, and Seventeenth Year: of his present Majesty's Reign,for recovering and preserving the Navigation of the River Dee,' '' we learn that the works belonging to the navigation had cost the