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CARRIAGE RATES CONTINUED.
All shorter Distances in Proportion.

For all Persons, Cattle and other Animals, such Rates as the Company may decide upon.

The Company are not, however, compelled to receive less than Two Shillings per Ton, for short Distances; they may also fix the Rates for Parcels not exceeding Five Hundred Weight, and may from time to time vary and repeal the said Rates.

This act, which is very long, comprising not less than two hundred clauses, contains nothing more of interest to general readers, the parts not mentioned being for the protection of private individuals.

In 1827 another act was obtained under the designation of 'An Act for amending and enlarging the Powers and Provisions of an Act, relating to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway;' by which the former act was amended and enlarged, and leave was given to the company to borrow £100,000 of the Exchequer Bill Commissioners, or of other persons; and it is provided that subscribers who do not pay their calls at the appointed time, shall pay interest on the sums due; it is also provided that the subscribers shall receive interest at five per cent, upon the amount of their subscriptions, besides the £10 per share dividend, without making any deduction from their maximum tonnage rates.

Another act was obtained in 1828, having for title, 'An Act to enable the Company of Proprietors of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway to alter the Line of the said Railway, and for amending and enlarging the Powers and Provisions of the several Acts relating thereto.' By this act alterations were made in the line of the railway originally laid down; one of the deviations is in the township of Sutton; another alteration from a field in that township to a field in Burtonwood; another in the townships of Newton and Culcheth; and the same was now directed to be made according to an amended plan, the details of which it is unnecessary to enter into.

However, the company still found that their line might be improved, for in the following year a fourth act was passed, as 'An Act for enabling the Liverpool and Manchester Railway