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 to and through a place called The Bank, near the town of Cardiff, in the county of Glamorgan. The subscribers to this canal, at the time the above act was obtained, were seventy-seven in number, (amongst whom were Lord Cardiff and Count de Redin,) who were incorporated by the name of "The Company of Proprietors of the Glamorganshire Canal Navigation," with power to raise among themselves the sum of £60,000, in six hundred shares of £100 each, and a further sum of £30,000, should it be deemed necessary, by mortgage of the undertaking.

TONNAGE RATES.
Fractions as for a Quarter of a Mile, and as for a Quarter of a Ton.

Ships or other Vessels, whether laden or unladen, passing through the Lock at the Bank into or out of the Dock or Basin, shall be subject to the Payment of One Penny per Ton, according to the registered Admeasurement of such Ship or Vessel.

The company are restricted to divide no more than eight per cent. Proprietors of any mines lying within four miles of any part of this canal, may make collateral cuts or railways across the grounds of other persons, on payment of damages. Owners of lands may make wharfs and charge the following rates.

WHARFAGE RATES.
The above Rates are payable if they remain upon the Wharfs for the Space of Six Days, except for Coal, Iron and Lime-stone, which may continue at the above Rate Six Calendar Months; and Timber, Clay, Lime, Iron-stone, Stone, Brick, Tile, Slate, or Gravel, may remain Thirty Days. If any Goods lie on the Wharfs or Quays for the Space of Ten Days beyond the respective Periods above prescribed, One Penny per Ton shall be paid for such Ten Days; and One Penny per Ton per Day for every Day beyond such Period. It is further enacted, that all Ships or other Vessels, passing from the Sea or the River into any Dock or Basin belonging to this Company, shall pay the same Duties, in Addition to the Rates which the Bailiffs, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Town of Cardiff, have hitherto received as Port Dues.

The act of 36th George III. which received the royal assent on the 26th April, 1796, and is entitled, 'An Act to amend an Act of the Thirtieth Year of his present Majesty, for making and maintaining a navigable Canal from Merthyr Tidvile, to and through a place called The Bank, near the town of Cardiff, in the county of Glamorgan, and for extending the said Canal to a place