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 '' 'Navigation of the River Loyne, otherwise called Lune, &amp;c. &amp;c. in the county palatine of Lancaster.' ''By this act the rates of the former act were confirmed, with power to the commissioners or trustees, of lowering them when expedient to half the original sums; the other clauses, merely confirming the former act, need not be quoted.

The next application to parliament was made in 1789, when a third act was obtained under title of'' 'An Act to explain, amend, and render more effectual several Acts, made in the Twenty-third of George the Second, and Twelfth of his present Majesty, for improving the Navigation of the River Loyne, otherwise called Lune, &amp;c. &amp;c. and for other Purposes therein mentioned.' ''By this act it is stated that the commissioners have borrowed £6,000 under authority of the former acts, and have expended the same on the works, as directed, and particularly on the making of a wet dock at Glasson, and other improvements of the said river, in doing which a debt of £1,560 has been contracted; and since it will be advantageous to build a stone land-mark in place of the present wood one at Rossall Point, as well as one or more light-houses near Lancaster Bay, it is by this act provided that the rates levied under the former acts shall be collected, together with the following

ADDITIONAL RATES.
These additional rates to cease when the sum of £2,500, which this act directs to be borrowed, shall have been paid off, and the old debt reduced to £4,000. One penny per ton is to be paid by every vessel as a light-house duty, which sum shall be applied to the maintenance of the said light-house; the overplus, if any, to be employed in reducing the debt. By this act it is