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 Ministers of Edinburgh are entitled to a Duty or Custom of Thirteen Shillings and Four-pence Scots, upon each Ton or Pack of Goods imported to Edinburgh, Leith, or Newhaven. The Company are therefore directed to pay the same on all Goods which may be imported by this Navigation. They are also bound to indemnify the Edinburgh Road Trustees, the Bathgate, and another Trust, in any Diminution of Tolls arising from these Turnpike Roads, which may be affected by their Canal.

The act of the 59th George III. entitled, An Act for altering and amending an Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal from the Lothian Road, near the city of Edinburgh, to join the Forth and Clyde Navigation near Falkirk, in the county of Stirling, was obtained chiefly for the purpose of making some alterations in the line in the parishes of Ratho, Kirkliston, and Falkirk. The company are, however, by this act enabled to anticipate two calls of ten per cent, each, by borrowing the sum, which amounts to £48,100, and which was rendered necessary by the works proceeding with greater rapidity than they were calculated to do at the outset.

The royal assent was given to a third act on the 23rd June, 1821, which is entitled, An Act for amending certain Acts for making and maintaining a navigable Canal from the Lothian Road, near the city of Edinburgh, to join the Forth and Clyde Navigation near Falkirk, in the county of Stirling, and giving Power to borrow a further Sum of Money on the Credit of the Tolls granted by the said Acts; by which power is given to raise the further sum of £50,000, either by the creation of new shares, or on the credit of the undertaking. In the preamble it is stated, that the whole of the monies they were authorized to raise under the preceding acts, had been expended, besides the sum of £50,000, which the Commissioners for issuing Exchequer Bills, under the authority of two acts of the 57th George III. and 1st George IV. had advanced to this company on the 1st of June, 1820.

In the preamble of an act of the 12th of May, 1823, entitled, An Act to enable the Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal Company to borrow a further Sum of Money, after reciting the previous acts, and stating that the whole of the sums granted had been expended on the works, it is stated, that a further sum was required in consequence of claims for extra work and awards of arbitrators, &amp;c.; they are, therefore, empowered to raise a further sum of £60,000, either by the creation of new shares, or by