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, consisting of six persons, were incorporated as "The Polloc and Govan Railway Company," and empowered to raise amongst themselves the sum of £10,000 in four hundred shares of £25 each, and may borrow, if necessary, the further sum of £5,000 on assignment of the rates as a security.

TONNAGE RATES.
For the use of any Waggon, Machinery, Engine or Power belonging to the Company, such additional Sum as they may from Time to Time require.

Fractions to be taken as for a Quarter of a Ton.

The chief object of this railway is to open a better communication between the river of Clyde and the Govan Colliery, and rich mineral estate of Sir John Maxwell, of Polloc, Bart. A further advantage will accrue to the inhabitants of Tradestown, by the conveniences to be constructed at the harbour of Broomielaw, for the shipping, unshipping and warehousing of every description of merchandize.

PORTLAND RAILWAY.
6 George IV. Cap. 121, Royal Assent 10th June, 1825.

THE act for forming this useful work was passed in the year 1825, and is entitled, 'An Act for making and maintaining a Railway or Tramroad in the parish of St. George, in the Island of Portland, in the county of Dorset;' by which act certain persons are incorporated as "The Portland Railway Company," with powers to make a railway from the Priory Lands in Portland Island, to the Stone Piers at Portland Castle; they are also to raise £5,000, in shares of £50 each, for the payment of expenses incurred in the execution of the same; and should the above prove insufficient, they may borrow £2,000 on mortgage of the works. They are authorized to demand the following tonnage rates.