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The river being made navigable, and the rates settled as above, the undertaking went forward with considerable success till the year 1810, when the two proprietors, in whom the work was now vested, petitioned parliament for an additional rate on coals; an act was accordingly passed in the following year, entitled, An Act for increasing the Rates on Coals conveyed on the River Itchin, in the county of Southampton, and for amending and rendering more effectual the several Acts relating thereto.

By this act the proprietors were empowered to take an additional toll of one halfpenny per chaldron per mile on all coal navigated on the river, over and above their former rates.

In 1820 Mr. Hollis, who had now becosne sole proprietor of the work, obtained a further advance by an act, entitled, An Act for increasing the Rates on Goods and Commodities conveyed on the River Itchin, in the county of Southampton. Under which act the following, over and above all former tolls, are directed to be paid as

TONNAGE RATES.
And so on in Proportion for a greater or less Quantity than a Chaldron or a Ton, and for a longer or shorter Distance than a Mile.

The advantages attendant upon this navigation, which is fourteen miles long, in a northerly direction from the tideway in Southampton Water to Winchester, at a small elevation above the sea, are the facility wherewith Winchester is supplied with deals, coal, timber, &amp;c. and the furnishing Southampton in return with flour, corn, and agricultural produce.

IVEL RIVER.
30 George II. Cap. 62, Royal Assent 17th May, l757.

THE Ivel River, which commences in the River Ouse, or Ouze, at Tempsford, in the county of Bedford, and proceeds for about eleven miles in a southerly direction, to the town of Shefford, in the same county, was made navigable under the powers of an act of the