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TONNAGE RATES.
Fractions of a Mile to be taken as a whole Mile, and Vessels having on Board a less lading than Twenty Tons, shall pay for Twenty Tons.

The proprietors of the canal, lords of manors or others may erect wharfs and warehouses on the line; and for the accommodation thus afforded, rates shall be paid according to agreement between the company and the owners of goods. Owners and occupiers of land may convey corn and grain and manure, the actual produce of their lands, on the levels of the canal, free from tolls, provided they pass no lock; and they may carry back manure for their lands tonnage free.

In the year 1814 a second act was obtained, under the title of 'An Act to alter and amend an Act made in the Fifty-second of his present Majesty, for making a Canal from the Stort Navigation, at or near Bishop's Stortford, to the River Cam.' By this act it appears that the sum of £425,250 had not been subscribed, therefore the works were not commenced; but as an amount had been raised, nearly sufficient for making the part between Clayhithe Sluice and Saffron Walden, it is provided by this second act, that the clause, insisting on the amount above stated, should be repealed, and this part of the work, with the cut from the canal from Sawston to Great Shelford, should be commenced; but that part between Saffron Walden and the Stort Navigation shall not be commenced before three-fourths of the estimate for the whole work is subscribed. By this act also fifteen additional subscribers are to be elected into the committee, as directors, at the next general assembly of the company.

Commencing at the level of the Bishop's Stortford Canal, there is a rise of 72 feet to the summit of this canal, by twelve locks of 6 feet each, bringing the work to the west end of the summit level, near to the large tunnel, which is a mile and three hundred and forty yards in length. The distance from the commencement to the summit level has four of these locks in the first mile and a half; there is then a level of six furlongs and eight chains; in the remaining space of one mile and two furlongs there are the remaining eight locks; the summit level is four miles, six furlongs