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Small Parcels, not exceeding Fitty-six Pounds in Weight, are to be charged according to the Determination of the Proprietors of the Road.

Fractions of a Ton and of a Mile to pay for the Quarters therein, and of a Quarter as a Quarter.

Wharfs and quays may be made either by the proprietors or the owners of land on the line, for which they are authorized to demand the following

WHARFAGE RATES.
If any Articles remain above Twenty-one Days - for the first Ten Days after that Time, they are to pay an additional Rate of One Penny per Ton; and One Half-penny per Ton for every Day afterwards.

The work having been put in execution, it appeared advantageous to the traffic on the line, and to the trade of the town of Plymouth, that a branch should be made from the lime-works at Catsdown and Sutton Pool, in the parish of Charles, to communicate with the road at Crabtree; accordingly a second act was passed in 1820, entitled, 'An Act for making a Branch Railway, or Tramroad, from a Place called Crabtree, in the parish of Egg Buckland, to certain Limeworks at a Place called Catsdown, and from thence to Sutton Pool in the parish of Charles, all in the county of Devon, to communicate with the Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway, at Crabtree aforesaid.' By this act the company are authorized to raise for the new branch £7,200, making, with the former sum granted to be raised, the total of £34,983, which this act provides shall be raised by shares, or by borrowing of the Commissioners of Public Works, or by other means; the whole to be subscribed before the works are commenced. Tolls to be subject to the same regulations as those of the former act.

Having made considerable progress in the work, the proprietors found that the line might be improved by an alteration in a certain part thereof, they accordingly applied to parliament for a third act, entitled, 'An Act to authorize the Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway Company to vary the Line of a certain Part of the said Railway, and to amend the Acts passed for making the said Railway.' By this act they are empowered to vary the line between a place called Jump, in the parish of Bickleigh and Crabtree, and Leighain Mill, which deviation was nine thousand nine hundred yards, the estimated cost of which, by Mr. Roger Hopkins,