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 The cuts made under the powers of this act are, one from the town of Buckingham, to join the branch canal at Old Stratford; a second from Aylesbury, to unite with the canal at Marsworth, two miles above Tring; and a third from Wendover, meeting the canal at Bulbourne, at the summit level. This last is a feeder rendered navigable.

The original line of canal authorized by the first act obtained by the company, having been found capable of improvement in the parishes of Abbot's Langley, &amp;c. in Hertfordshire, another act received the royal assent in March, 1795, entitled, An Act for authorizing the Company of the Grand Junction Canal to vary the Course of a certain Part of the said Canal, in the county of Hertford, so as to render the Navigation thereof more safe and convenient, and for making some other Amendments and Alterations in an Act made in the Thirty-third Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for making the said Canal. The rates of tonnage payable on the old line are hereby made payable on the new; but it is enacted that no articles, the respective rates of tonnage and wharfage whereof were, by the first act, fixed at a less sum than one penny per ton per mile, should be permitted to pass any lock when the water does not flow over the waste weir above such lock, without consent, unless the person conducting such articles shall pay the company an additional rate; which rate, together with the rates made payable on the said articles by the first act, shall not amount to more than one penny per ton per mile; and, in consequence of the safer and speedier conveyance by the projected deviation, the company are empowered to receive, over and above the former rates of tonnage and wharfage, the following

RATE.
By this act, the clause of 33rd George III. restraining persons from conveying coal, culm, or cinders nearer to the city of London than Langley Bar, is repealed, and these articles are now to be conveyed not nearer to London than the north-west end of Grove Park, under forfeiture of vessel and cargo.