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The rights of the corporation of London, as conservators of the Thames, are to be preserved, and the company is to pay them an annuity of £450, as a compensation for the diminution of tolls. A stop or pound lock is to be made for regulating the quantity of water to be taken from the Grand Junction, and to restrain the company from introducing more than a certain quantity of water into the cut at Paddiugton. This is a very long act, containing a vast number of clauses for protecting the rights of public bodies and private individuals, but we have given above those parts only which are of general interest.

A second act was obtained by the company in 1813, under the title of 'An Act to amend an Act of the last Session of Parliament, for making and maintaining a navigable Canal from the Grand Junction Canal, in the parish of Paddington, to the River Thames, in the parish of Limehouse, with a collateral Cut, in the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, in the county of Middlesex;' whereby the former act was amended, as far as regarded that part of the work intended to pass through Regent's Park, and an addition thereto towards the south-eastern extremity of the said park is hereby directed to be made, for repaying the extra cost of which, the following is to be demanded from every vessel using this intended cut, as an additional

TONNAGE RATE.
Fractions of a Ton to pay for the Quarters therein.

A third act was obtained in 1816, entitled, 'An Act for altering and amending an Act made in the Fifty-second of his present Majesty, for making a Canal from the Grand Junction Canal, in the parish of Paddington, to the River Thames, in the parish of Limehouse.' By this act the company is allowed to raise an additional sum of £200,000 for the completion of the works, either by subscription amongst the present subscribers, or by creating new shares and half shares, or by mortgage, or by granting annuities, or by bonds of £100, each bearing interest of £5 per cent, per annum, payable out of the tolls. This act contains a clause to explain which is the proper line through certain grounds belonging William Agar, Esq. at Pancras; and another