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WHARFAGE AND WAREHOUSING RATES AT CHELTENHAM.
The act of the 55th George III. was obtained for the purpose of enabling the proprietors to borrow the further sum of £15,000, to enable them to complete the railway, and to pay off the debt which had been incurred. It is entitled, An Act for enabling the Gloucester and Cheltenham Railway Company to raise a further Sum of Money for the completion of their Works. The sum above-mentioned may be obtained by the creation of new shares, or in the mode prescribed by the preceding act.

This railway was originally projected with the two-fold purpose of relieving the roads between Gloucester and Cheltenham from the carriage of heavy articles, and for bringing coal to the highly celebrated and improving town of Cheltenham; the importance of which to the inhabitants of that place has been abundantly felt by the great reduction in the price of coal that immediately took place on completing the railway.

GRAND JUNCTION CANAL.
33 Geo. III. C. 80, R. A. 30th Apr. 1793.

34 Geo. III. C. 24, R. A. 28th Mar. 1794.

35 Geo. III. C. 8, R. A. 5th Mar. 1795.

35 Geo. III. C. 43, R. A. 28th Apr. 1795.

35 Geo. III. C. 85, R. A. 2nd June, 1795.

36 Geo. III. C. 25, R. A. 24th Dec. 1795.

38 Geo. III. C. 33, R. A. 26th May, 1798.

41 Geo. III. C. 71, R. A. 20th June, 1801.

43 Geo. III. C. 8, R. A. 24th Mar. 1803.

45 Geo. III. C. 68, R. A. 27th June, 1805.

52 Geo. III. C. 140, R. A. 9th June, 1812.

58 Geo. III. C. 16, R. A. 17th Mar. 1818.

59 Geo. III. C. 111, R. A. 22nd June, 1819.

THIS stupendous and most useful line of navigation begins at Braunston, in the county of Northampton, where it unites with the Oxford Canal, bordering upon the county of Warwick.. Its course from Braunston is between Welton and Daventry, with a cut one mile and a half to the latter place; leaving Long Breckby to the left, it proceeds to Gayton, where a cut goes off five miles to Northampton. From Gayton it passes Blisworth, and through a tunnel to Stoke, Grafton and Cosgrove, near which last place there is a branch to Stoney-Stratford; below this, the canal joins the River Ouse, which it crosses; thence, passing