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TONNAGE RATES CONTINUED.
Tillage, Dung, Soil, Marl, Coal Ashes, Turf, and all other Manure, except Lime, to be used on Lands near the Line, are free from Tolls.

Goods passing into or out of this Canal, or out of or into the Cromford, are to pay the same Rates as are paid for Goods passing to or from the Erewash from or into the said Cromford Canal.

The company may divide £8 per cent. per annum on the sums subscribed, and the surplus is to be funded to answer the deficiencies of any succeeding year; and when there is no deficiency for three successive years, then the rates are to be reduced. The Trent Undertakers may make a cut or communication into the canal at Sneinton Meadow, and boats may pass thereon, paying the rates as above.

This canal is about fifteen miles in length, its direction being nearly north-west, at no great elevation in any part. It was completed in 1802, and has a large reservoir at Amsworth, with a self-regulating sluice, whereby 3,000 cubic feet of water are let out per hour, for the purpose of supplying the Erewash Canal and certain mills on the line.

As affording a ready way for the export of farming produce and coal, and for importing timber, deals and other articles of home consumption, this is an useful work.

NUTBROOK OR SHIPLEY CANAL.
33 George III. Cap. 115, Royal Assent, 3rd June, 1793.

THIS canal commences at the collieries belonging to Sir Henry Hunloke, Bart. and E. M. Mundy, Esq. which collieries are situate in the township of Shipley, whence proceeding in a southerly direction, leaving Ilkestone on the east and Kirk Hallam on the west, it falls into the Erewash Canal in the parish of Stanton-by-Dale, not far from Trowen, traversing a distance of about four miles and a half.

The act for this work was made in the year 1793, under the title of 'An Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal from the Collieries at Shipley and West Hallam, in the county of Derby, to the Erewash Canal in the parish of Stanton-by-Dale, in the said county.' By this act the following are directed to be received as tonnage rates.