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

These rates the company may from time to time reduce and raise again as occasion may require.

This railroad is not to interfere with or impede the military defence of Portland Castle ; and no building is to be erected within two hundred yards of the said castle. If the work is not finished in three years, this act is to be void and of none effect, as far as regards the parts uncompleted. The length is two miles and four chains, and was designed by Mr. James Brown, civil engineer, who estimated the cost at £5,689, 12s.

PORTSMOUTH AND ARUNDEL CANAL.
57 George III. C. 63, R. A. 7th July, 1817.

59 George III. C. 104, R. A. 21st June, 1819.

2 George IV. C. 62, R. A. 28th May, 1821.

9 George IV. C. 57, R. A. 23rd May, 1828.

THIS canal commences from the tideway in the River Arun, at the village of Ford, three miles from the sea at Arundel Harbour, and two miles and three quarters from the town of Arundel, and proceeds westward close to the villages of Yapton, Barnham and Merston, to half a mile from North Mundham, where the Chichester Branch leaves; from thence it proceeds by Donnington to Chichester Harbour, where the principal line of canal terminates, being in length, from the River Arun, eleven miles, seven furlongs and eight chains. Upon this line are four locks. From the bed of the Arun to high water, spring tides, is 15 feet, and a lock of 5 feet above high-water-mark on the bank of the river; one furlong and one chain further on the canal is another lock of 7 feet; from this lock it is level ten miles, five furlongs and three chains, where there is a lock down 7 feet; and at the end of the canal, in Chichester Harbour, is another of 5 feet to high-water-mark, spring tides.