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 entitled, An Act for extending the Dudley Canal to the Birmingham Canal, at or near Tipton Green, in the county of Stafford; and by which the Dudley Canal Company are empowered to incorporate a certain number of new subscribers, to enable them to raise the sum of £22,000, and an additional £5,000, if necessary, for the purpose of carrying into execution the works proposed; and the following are the additional rates allowed to be taken on this canal.

ADDITIONAL TONNAGE RATES.
The original shares in the Dudley Canal were sixty-five; and they may, by this act, be increased to one hundred and thirty.

In consideration of the permission granted to the Dudley Canal to connect with the Birmingham Canal, the proprietors of the last-mentioned navigation have had secured to them certain tonnage rates; for particulars of which, see Birmingham Canal Navigation, [PNRC0079.htm#PNRC068 p. 68].

By another act which received the royal sanction on the 7th of May, 1790, entitled., An Act for effectually carrying into Execution Two Acts passed in the Sixteenth and Twenty-fifth Years of the Reign of his present Majesty, for making and maintaining a navigable Canal from the Stourbridge Navigation to the Birmingham and Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Navigation, in the counties of Worcester and Stafford, the company are authorized to raise among themselves, for the purposes set forth in the title of the act, the sum of £10,100, to be divided into new shares. They may also, if necessary, borrow the further sum of £10,000, on mortgage of the undertaking.

The act of the 33rd George III. enabling the Dudley Canal Company to connect their navigation with the Worcester and