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TONNAGE RATES.
For all Lime, Lime-stone, Stooe and Bricks for Building, Half the Rates for Coal.

It is also provided, that whenever the Leicester and Melton Mowbray Canal Company shall reduce their additional rates, the additional rates on this canal shall have a corresponding reduction.

This canal is fifteen miles in length; commencing in the town of Oakham, in the county of Rutland, it pursues a course nearly due north, by Burley Hall to Greetham, a little beyond which it makes a turn to the west and enters the county of Leicester, near Edmonthorpe Hall, having, from Oakham to this place, traversed a distance of six miles and a half, on a level; from Edmonthorpe it verges to the north-west, leaving Stapleford Park on the east; it then turns toward the west, which direction it pursues to its junction with the Melton Mowbray Navigation in Mill Close on the west of that town, having, from Edmonthorpe to its termination, passed a distance of eight miles and a half, parallel to the River Wreak, and with a fall of 126 feet from the level at Edmonthorpe.

This work, by its connection with Melton Mowbray, opens an easy and cheap passage for the produce of the country situate both north and south of Oakham and of the adjacent country, and consequently is attended with much advantage to the district through which it is carried.

OUSE RIVER, SUSSEX.
30 Geo. III. C. 52, R. A. 28th April, 1790.

31 Geo. III. Cap. 76, R. A. 6th June, 1791.

40 Geo. III. C. 54, R. A. 20th June, 1800.

46 Geo. III. Cap. 122, R. A. 12th July, 1806.

54 Geo. III. C. 176, R. A. 28th June, 1814.

THIS river has its source in Slaugham, in Sussex, and running easterly, passes through the parish of Cuckfield-by-Paxhill; thence it runs nearly south by Buckham Hall, Newick Place, Isfield Place, Coombe Park, and Landport, to Lewes; and thence continues in a southerly course to the sea at Newhaven Harbour.

The first act of parliament for improving this navigation was passed in 1790, and is entitled, 'An Act for improving, continuing