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 mooring buoys, chains and capsterns, and the company are to build wharfs, warehouses and other works necessary for the purposes of the act. The following are to be taken as

DOCK, WHARFAGE, WAREHOUSING AND TONNAGE RATES.
The Rates of small Parcels, not weighing more than Five Hundred Weight, are to be regulated by the Company.

Fractions of a Ton and a Mile to be taken as the Quarters therein, and of a Quarter as a Quarter.

All Vessels belonging to his Majesty, or conveying Soldiers, Arms and Baggage, or belonging the Ordnance, Customs, Excise or Post-Office, are exempted from these Rates; as are also Owners of Lands on the Line and their Servants and Cattle.

The length of the railway is two miles and three hundred yards, in which distance there is a rise of 68 feet above high-water-mark; the dock is two hundred yards by fifty-five at the bottom, calculated to hold twenty-one vessels of three hundred tons as mentioned above; the depth is 16 feet below high-water-mark of the highest spring tides, and the flood-gates at the entrance are 36 feet wide. Mr. F. Foster estimated the whole at £11,736, 3s. 4d. including £8,074, l0s. the cost of the dock and other conveniences. The engineer's estimate was subscribed for in equal portions by Messrs. D. T. Shears, J. H. Shears, T. Margrave and W. Ellwood, Jun.

The work is completed and is found useful for the intended objects of its protection.

LLANLLYFIN AND CARNARVON RAILWAY.
(SEE NANTLLE RAILWAY.)