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 For the Purposes of the Act, Twenty-one Hundred Weight shall be deemed a Ton.

HARBOUR DUES.
The Burthen to be ascertained and charged according to the Custom-House Register.

Lords of manors or owners of lands may erect wharfs, but they are restricted to the following

WHARFAGE RATES.
The above Rates to be paid if the Goods remain on the Wharfs more than Two Calendar Months; but should such Articles continue above that Time, there shall be paid the further Sum of One Penny per Ton for Wharfage and Two.pence per Ton for the Warehousing for the next Seven Days; and the like Sum of One Penny and Two-pence respectively, per Ton, for every further Seven Days which such Articles shall remain upon such Quays, Wharfs, or Warehouses.

In 1829 the proprietors again applied for another act, entitled, An Act to alter, amend, and enlarge the Powers of an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for making and maintaining the Duffryn Llynvi and Porth Cawl Railway, and other Works connected therewith, in the preamble of which we learn, that the sum of £40,000 (being the amount of the estimate,) had been expended, and also the sum of £8,000, which last sum was all the money the company were enabled to raise of the £20,000 which the act of 6th George IV. empowered them to borrow by way of mortgage.

This last act is, therefore, chiefly obtained for the purpose of raising the remainder of the last-mentioned sum of £20,000, and to enable the company to admit mortgagees to become proprietors, to the amount of their respective claims upon the company.

The object of this railway is to open the extensive limestone and freestone quarries, and the numerous mines of iron-ore and coal, which abound in the immediate vicinity of its course.