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TONNAGE RATES.
And so in Proportion for a greater or less Quantity than a Ton.

Vessels passing between Lewes Bridge and Southerham Corner, and Newhaven Bridge and Lock Hole, to be exempted from Tolls.

The land in the neighbourhood of this navigation is divided into five districts, which may be taxed to pay the expense of the drainage, in the following proportions, viz.-

And in the same Proportion for each District

The trustees are not to reduce the tolls or tonnage rates, without reducing in the same proportion the rates and assessments on the land, except the tonnage rates are more than double the amount of the drainage rates, and the tonnage must be reduced in the same proportion as the drainage rates, except when the latter exceeds half the amount of the former, nor shall the tonnage rates be reduced until the money borrowed does not exceed £6,000. The tolls of this navigation to be exempted from all taxes what ever; and the trustees may borrow money on the security of the tolls, rates and duties, and may also sell the old parts of the river, in lieu of which they have substituted new cuts.

By the 40th George III. which is entitled, 'An Act to alter, amend, and enlarge the Powers of an Act, passed in the Thirty-first Year of the Reign of his present Majesty King George the Third, for improving the Navigation of the River Ouse, between Newhaven Bridge and Lewes Bridge, in the county of Sussex, and for the better Draining of the Low Lands lying in Lewes and Laughton Levels, in the said county,' it is stated, that in consequence of the pressure of the drainage rates on the owners of the land in the level for the purposes of this act, it is expedient to increase the tonnage rates on the river; the former tolls are therefore repealed, and in lieu thereof may be taken the following tonnage rates.