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TONNAGE RATES CONTINUED.
This last-mentioned Toll upon the Inclined Planes is not to be levied, If the other Rates produce £10,000 per Annum.

TOLL FOR COACHES OR OTHER CARRIAGES,
Fractions to be taken as for a Quarter of a Mile and Quarter of a Ton.

The Company are not compelled to receive less than Sixpence per Ton for short Distances, and have power to regulate and fix the Prices of small Parcels of less than Five Hundred Pounds Weight.

WHARFAGE RATES.
And the like Sum of One Penny and Sixpence per Ton respectively, for every further and subsequent Week such Articles shall remain upon the said Wharfs or Warehouses.

CRANAGE TOLL.
And so progressively advancing Sixpence per Ton.

Lords of manors and others may erect wharfs, and charge the same rates as the company of proprietors. The railway to be completed in five years or the powers to cease.

The object sought by the execution of this railway and branches, is a cheap and expeditious conveyance of the coal, lime and other minerals which abound at the upper portion of the railway, to the town of Leicester, and thence by the canals and navigable rivers with which it will immediately communicate to other districts.