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WHARFAGE.
For any Goods which shall remain more than One Month on the Wharf, a reasonable Satisfaction to be made.

For Goods which shall be carried Into or out of the Grand Trunk or Trent or Mersey Canal, and navigated along that part of the Derby Canal which connects the River Trent and the Grand Trunk, the last-mentioned Company are entitled to One Shilling per Ton.

EXEMPTION FROM THE ABOVE TOLL.
Coal, Coke, Lime, Lime-stone, and Unwrought Stone, brought along the Derby Canal from its Northern Extremity, or from any of the Villages on the Line; or gotten in any of the Parishes of Melborne, Stanton-by-Bridge, and Castle Donnington; and such Goods, Wares, and Merchandize to be used by Persons residing between the Trent and Mersey Canal and the River Trent, within the Parish of Swarkstone.

The Trent and Mersey Canal Company are also authorized to charge, for all Goods carried along or crossing the Canal, the same Amount of Toll as though they had navigated a full Mile; also for all Goods (except Bricks manufactured in the Parishes of Barrow, Twyford, Stenson, Findern, and Willington, and not passing any Lock of this Canal,) which shall be carried from the Westward of Swarkstone, and along the Derby Canal, and down the Derby Canal to Swarkstone, and from thence Westward on the Trent and Mersey Canal, such Tonnage Rates as the said Trent and Mersey Canal Company would have been entitled to, had such Goods been conveyed along their Canal from Swarkstone to Shardlow.

The Derby Canal Company are bound by this Act to make a Cut at Weston Cliff, to join the River Trent with the Grand Trunk Canal, (which is close on its Northern Bank,) whenever the Proprietors of Breedon Lime-stone Quarries shall require it, but not until a Canal or Railway be made between the Trent, at Weston Cliff and the Works above-mentioned.

The Company have also engaged to make good to the Trustees of the Mansfield Road any Reduction on the Toll on Coal, which the making of their Canal may have occasioned; that is, if such Reduction is below Four per Cent.

As this canal would greatly injure the revenue derived from the navigation of the River Derwent, which runs through Derby, this company were required to purchase it, which they did for the sum of £3,996.

For the use of the poor of Derby, five thousand tons of coal are annually permitted to pass, toll free, on this navigation, the distribution of which is under a committee of three members of the corporation of Derby, and the same number of proprietors of this undertaking.

This canal was finished in 1794, and it was made chiefly with the view of better supplying the populous town of Derby with coal, by means of its connection with the Erewash and Cromford Canals, and by the railways which extend to the collieries north of the town.