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TONNAGE RATES OF 12 GEORGE I.
In addition to these, is a Toll of One Penny for every customary Ton of Goods carried upwards or downwards through the Township of Tinsley, to be applied to the making and repairing of the Road between Tinsley and Sheffield.

There is also another Toll of One Penny for every customary Ton of Twenty-five Hundred Weight, which shall be brought to, or carried from, any Wharf at or near Tinsley, to be carried up or down the said River.

The year following the passing of the above-recited act, the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Doncaster, obtained an act, entitled, An Act for improving the Navigation of the River Dun, from a place called Holmstile, in the township of Doncaster, in the county of York, to Wilsick House, in the township of Barmby Dun, in the said county, by which they are appointed undertakers of this part of the navigation.

In addition to the tonnage rates granted for the lower part of this navigation, certain duties are directed to be paid to the corporation of Doncaster, as a remuneration for the expenses they are at in maintaining three draw bridges over the Dutch River, which are by this act granted to them, besides the annual sum of £20, payable by the participants and owners of lands in the level of Hatfield Chase.

Under the powers of the above-recited acts, the two navigation companies together expended, in the necessary works, the sum of £17,250, but on finding it would be to their common advantage to unite into one company, an act was obtained in the 6th George II. for this purpose, which is entitled, 'An Act to explain and amend Two Acts of Parliament, one made in the Twelfth and the other in the Thirteenth Years of his late Majesty's Reign, for