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TONNAGE RATES.
And so in proportion for any greater or less Weight.

For any Goods, Wares, or Merchandize carried to or from the Village of Brigham, (which is situate Three Quarters of a Mile from Fisholme Clough,) a Moiety only of the above Tolls is to be demanded.

Pleasure Boats to pay for passing through each Lock the Sum of Sixpence.

A Public Wharf with Cranes is directed to be made at Great Driffield; the Rates and Duties payable thereat, to be settled by the Commissioners, or any Seven of them.

In the preamble of another act, passed in the 41st of George III. entitled, An Act to amend an Act, passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, entitled, An Act for improving the Navigation of the River Hull and Frodingham Beck, from Aike Beck Mouth to the Clough, on the East Corner of Fisholme, and for extending the said Navigation,from the said Clough, into or near the town of Great Driffield, in the East Riding of the county of York, and to extend and improve the said Navigation, it is stated, that the commissioners had made considerable improvements in the navigation, but it was still very imperfect; they, therefore, obtain power to make cuts for avoiding considerable bends, particularly one from opposite Goodall Clough to Seven Hills; another from Emmotland to Corps Landing, situate on the West Beck; and to widen and make navigable the beck to Frodingham Bridge; also to take down and rebuild, within six years, Hull Bridge, near Beverley, and to maintain a towing path from that bridge to Fisholme.

In addition to the tolls granted by the preceding act, the following may be demanded for every article passing on any of the cuts.