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Lords of manors or the company may erect wharfs and warehouses on the line, for using which they shall charge the following

But if the same shall remain on any Wharf or in any Warehouse for a longer Time than Forty-eight Hours, then the Proprietors may charge, in addition, One Penny per Ton for Wharfage and Three-pence per Ton for Warehousing, for the next Ten Days, and the same Sums respectively for every Day the said Goods shall remain on the Wharfs or in the Warehouses.

There are other clauses, but of no general interest. Mr. William Crossley made the estimate of this railroad in 1810, and stated that a single railroad would cost £13,390, 12s. and a double one £17,862. The length of the road is eleven thousand six hundred and six yards, and the money originally subscribed £15,400.

LONDON AND CAMBRIDGE JUNCTION CANAL.
52 George III. Cap. 141, Royal Assent 9th June, 1812.

54 George III. Cap. 168, Royal Assent 20th June, 1814.

As far back as the year 1778 Mr. Whitworth pointed out to the Common Council of the City of London, the public advantage which would accrue by making a canal from Bishop's Stortford to Cambridge; and that body gave him orders, as their engineer, to make a survey of the country between those places, which he did in the years 1779 and 1780. He reported this line to be very practicable; the length whereof by his survey was twenty-eight miles and a quarter, with a rise from Bishop's Stortford to the head level at Elsenham of 84 feet, and a fall from thence to the River Cam at the low end of Cambridge of 141 feet 2 inches. This scheme has lain dormant till the present proprietors saw the great advantage the public would derive by accomplishing an easy communication between the metropolis and the various towns and districts in the line of this projected canal down to Lynn and the Isle of Ely; and for the purpose of putting into execution so important a work, they applied and obtained an act in 1812, under the title of 'An Act for making and maintaining a navigable