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TONNAGE RATES CONTINUED.
No less Fraction than Half a Mile or a Quarter of a Ton to be paid, and Wharfage to be charged if Goods remain longer than Forty-eight Hours,

Lords of manors and occupiers of land may erect wharfs and quays, but if they refuse, the company have power to do so, charging rates according to their own discretion.

This work is highly beneficial to the district through which it passes, by affording a communication with Great Yarmouth and London, and thus connecting with most parts of the kingdom.

NORTH WILTS CANAL.
53 George III. Cap. 182, Royal Assent 2nd July, 1813.

THIS canal is marked in our map a branch of the Wilts and Berks Canal; having been made under the authority of a distinct act of parliament, we shall here only describe its course, and state the sum to be raised for the execution of the work.

It commences in the WiIts and Berks Canal, near Swindon, 345⅓ feet above the level of the sea, and proceeding in a pretty direct line towards the north-west, terminates in the Thames and Severn Canal at Weymoor Bridge, having passed the town of Cricklade in its way. The length is eight miles and three furlongs, and falls, from the Wilts and Berks Canal to the Thames and Severn, 58 feet 8 inches. The act obtained for making it is entitled, 'An Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal from the Wilts and Berks Canal, in the parish of Swindon, in the county of Wilts, to communicate with the Thames and Severn Canal in the parish of Latton, in the same county;' whereby the proprietors, who are styled "The Company of Proprietors of the North Wilts Canal Navigation," are empowered to make and complete the same. They are to raise £60,000, in shares of £25 each; but the sum of £44,000, being five-sixths of the estimate, is to be subscribed before the work commences. If the said £60,000 should not be sufficient, they may raise a further sum of