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The company are to fix the Rate for Parcels not exceeding Five Hundred Weight.

The Railway is not to be used as a Passage for Horses or Cattle, except those crossing it to the Farms on its Line.

Wharfs and warehouses may be erected by owners of land or lords of manors, on their own lands; but if such erections are not made within three calendar months after notice given, then the said company may themselves erect them, and at such wharfs may be taken the following

WHARFAGE AND WAREHOUSING RATES.
All Articles remaining above Forty-eight Hours, shall pay in addition for the next Ten Days, for Wharfage, One Penny per Ton; for Warehousing, Three-pence per Ton; and the like Sums of One Penny and Three-pence for every Day after the Expiration of the said Ten Days.

A loan of Exchequer Bills is to be deemed equivalent to a subscription, as being provided for under the clauses of an act of the 57th George III. entitled, 'An Act to authorize the Issue of Exchequer Bills, and the Advance of Money out of the Consolidated Fund to a limited Amount, for the carrying on of Public Works and Fisheries in the United Kingdom, and Employment of the Poor in Great Britain.'  This railway is about fourteen miles long, in a direction from Burlinjob to Castle Weir, west, and from thence to the Hay Railway, south. It is 505½: feet above the level of the sea, and well calculated for the purposes for which it was projected.

KIRKINTILLOCH, OR MONKLAND AND KIRKINTILLOCH RAILWAY.
5 George IV. Cap. 49, Royal Assent 17th May, 1824.

THIS useful work was undertaken in the year 1824, under the authority of 'An Act for making a Railway from Palace Craig, in the parish of Old Monkland, in the county of Lanark, to the Forth and Clyde Canal, near Kirkintilloch, in the county of Dumbarton.' The design of the projectors was to open a communication between the iron works at Palace Craig, near Old