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TONNAGE RATES.
Fractions of a Ton and a Mile to be reckoned as the Quarters therein, and of a Quarter as a Quarter.

Coal brought up the Lines of the Lydney and Lidbrook Company to pay only Three-fourths of the above Rates, except those carried from Redbrook to Pool Dee.

Several clauses are inserted for preservation of the timber in the forest, and for securing his Majesty's rights to shares of the mines. Inspectors are to be appointed by the King's Surveyor General for searching suspicious persons and their carriages, for the maintenance of which inspectors and for the enjoyment of certain privileges, the proprietors are to pay certain annual and weekly rentals or allowances. Wharfs, &amp;c. may be erected by the company, who are to receive according to the annexed scale of wharfage rates.

WHARFAGE RATES.
None but the that enumerated Articles may remain on the Wharfs above Six Days, but these may lie thereon for One Month on the Payment of Sixpence per Ton. After the other Articles have remained Ten Days more than the Six before-mentioned, they shall pay One Penny per Ton, and One Penny per Ton for every further Day.