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TONNAGE AND DOCKAGE RATES AND DOCKAGE RATES CONTINUED.
The last Column is the Rent to be paid while stored on the Company's Premises.

Mr. Ralph Dodd was the engineer for this undertaking, and his estimate amounted to £80,220, 3s. 7d. The sum originally subscribed by the shareholders was £45,200; but by the different acts the company have had authority to raise above £300,000. The work has not yet remunerated the proprietors for their outlay, not more than two and a half per cent. annual interest having yet been received on each £100 share. The loan of course has had regular interest paid upon it, according to the provisions of the act, But as the profits of this concern, as originally intended, would partly depend upon dockage, this source of expected revenue will