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TONNAGE RATES.
Where the Rates do not amount to Sixpence per Ton, by reason of passing a short Distance only, the Proprietors have authority to demand it.

TOLLS.
Fractions to be taken as for a Quarter of a Mile and Quarter of a Ton.

COMPANY'S CHARGE FOR CARRYING UPON THE RAILWAY, INCLUDING TONNAGE AND TOLLS.
And for any Distance short of the whole Length of the Railway, a rateable Proportion of such several Sums, according to the Distance.

For Persons, Cattle and other Animals, such reasonable Charge as shall from Time to Time he determined by the Company.

For the Carriage of small Parcels not exceeding Five Hundred Pounds Weight, the Company have power to fix the Charge at any general Meeting.

For aseertaining the Weight of Tonnage, One Hundred and Twelve Pounds is deemed a Hundred Weight, and Twenty Hundred Weight a Ton; Fourteen Cubic Feet of Stone, Forty Cubic Feet of Oak, Mahogany, Beech and Ash, and Fifty Cubic Feet of all other Timber, shall be deemed a Ton Weight.