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 than one vote for every eight shares he possesses, as far as ten votes; and no proprietor can be elected on the committee who has not at least forty such shares.

At the time of passing this act, it appears that an adjustment of accounts took place between the company and the corporation of London, and a balance of £1,562 being due from the former to the latter, an arrangement was made for liquidating this claim; and, in future, the company agreed to pay the corporation £600 per annum, in lieu of any deficiencies in the tolls due to the corporation, as recited in the first act; the said sum of £600 per annum to be paid clear of all parochial rates, or other deductions whatsoever.

Though so considerable a sum of money had been already raised, it was still found insufficient, and accordingly another act was obtained in 1803, designated, An Act for empowering the Company of Proprietors of the Grand Junction Canal, to raise a further Sum of Money to enable them to complete the Works authorized to be executed, in pursuance of the several Acts passed in the Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth, Thirty-eighth, and Forty-first Years of the Reign of his present Majesty; and for amending, altering, and enlarging the Powers and Provisions of the said Acts. By this the proprietors are enabled to raise a further sum of £400,000, or such parts thereof as they should deem necessary for completing the works; and to provide for the extra cost of making a tunnel at Blisworth, and an aqueduct over the Ouse at Wolverton, and for completing other works yet unfinished, they have power given them to collect the following additional rates.

TONNAGE RATES.
As the Rules established by the first Act for ascertaining the Weight of Timber and other Articles conveyed on the said Canal, had been found very uncertain, it is provided by this Act that the Tonnage for Timber and all other Goods whatever,