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 "Council of the Company of Proprietors of the Forth and Clyde Navigation," who have power to appoint a committee of three. The schedule of tolls granted in the former acts are hereby repealed; and the following tonnage rates are allowed in lieu thereof.

TONNAGE RATES.
And so in Proportion for any greater or less Time than a Month.

WHARFAGE RATES.
And so in Proportion.

Every Vessel coming into any of the said Harbours or Basins, a Duty of Sixpence sterling, on every Fifty Tons of the Burthen thereof, for Lighting the said Harbours and Basins

The act of 54th George III. is entitled, An Act to enlarge, alter, and amend the Powers of the several Acts for making and maintaining the Forth and Clyde Navigation; and by which the company of proprietors are empowered to purchase ground for extending the basin, and to make new wharfs at Port Dundas, near Glasgow, and to make the canal 10 feet deep. This act further directs that Lord Dundas shall be entitled to receive, for all vessels lying on the south side of the outer basin at Grangemouth, the same rates of wharfage which the company are empowered to collect under power of the 46th George III. In the act which authorizes the company to carry the above works into execution, a power is given to borrow the sum of £40,000, on security of the rates and duties.

In consideration of the expense the company will incur by maintaining a bank and towing paths from the harbour of Grangemouth to the mouth of the Carron River, they are empowered to demand, from all ships and other vessels coming from Grange-