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TOLLS.
Small Parcels under Five Hundred Weight are to be paid for according to a Rate to be fixed by the Company.

The proprietors are empowered to raise £23,200 in shares of £100 each; and if need be, an additional sum of £12,000 by mortgage.

From an inspection of the communication with various parts of the kingdom, which will appear by referring to the map, it is evident that the execution of this railroad will prove of very great convenience to the owners of property on its line; the various productions of the particular district through which it is designed to be made, will thus have a ready conveyance, while, by the same means, the staple commodities of other places will be as easily conveyed to the towns in its vicinity.

HEREFORD AND GLOUCESTER CANAL.
31 George III. Cap. 89, Royal Assent 11th April, 1791.

33 George III. Cap. 119, Royal Assent 11th July, 1793.

THIS useful branch of inland navigation, which is about thirty-five miles and a half in length from its commencement at Hereford to the tideway of the Severn at Gloucester, was projected under the superintendence of Mr. Joseph Clowes, civil engineer, in the latter end of 1790; and the first act obtained for the execution of the work, was passed in the following year, under the title of An Act for making and maintaining a navigable Cut or Canal from the city of Hereford to the city of Gloucester, with a collateral Cut from the same to the town of Newent, in the county of Gloucester.

The act being obtained, the necessary works were soon after commenced; but it having been found necessary to vary the original line, and to make other alterations, a second act was obtained in 1793, entitled, 'An Act to vary and extend the Line of the Canal authorized to be made by an Act passed in the Thirty-first