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 such parts of the canal as shall pass his estate at Hagg's Bank; mines are reserved to lords of manors, but these are not to be worked to the prejudice of the navigation. For executing this work the proprietors are empowered to raise £90,000, in shares of £100 and in case this should prove insufficient, they may borrow a further sum of £60,000, on mortgage of the rates. For paying interest of capital and other contingencies, they may demand the following

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

The Sum of Three-pence per Ton is charged for Wharfage for any Time under Ten Days, and the further Sum of One Half-penny per Ton per Day, for any greater length of Time than Ten Days.

No Boat under Fifteen Tons Burthen, when the water does not, or under Ten Tons when the Water does, flow over the Weirs of any of the Locks, shall pass through any Lock without Consent in Writing, or unless the Owner or Navigator of such Boat shall pay Tonnage equal to Fifteen Tons or Ten Tons respectively as aforesaid.

Proprietors of mines of coal, stone, furnace, or other works are empowered to make branch railways of not more than two thousand yards in length, and branch cuts or canals of not more than four miles in length, to communicate with the said canal or railway, under certain limitations.

Immediately after the act was obtained this work was commenced, but after five years the funds were completely exhausted, and application was therefore made to parliament for a second act, which was granted in 1800, under the title of 'An Act for altering and amending an Act passed in the Thirty-fourth Year of his present Majesty, for making and maintaining the Peak Forest Canal, and for granting to the Company of Proprietors of the said Canal further and other Powers.' By this act it is stated, that of the £90,000 directed to be raised by the first act, £80,600 only had been subscribed, and only part of the subscription paid, whilst of the £60,000 directed to be borrowed, only £36,540 had