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WHARFAGE.
Coal, Iron and Lime-stone may remain Six Weeks; Timber, Clay, Iron-stone, Lime, Brick, Tile, Stone, Slate or Gravel, Three Weeks; all other Goods, Six Days. One Penny per Ton per Day to be paid in addition for every Day after the respective Times above quoted have expired.

Stone for Roads and Manure, Dung, Soil, Marl, Ashes of Coal and Turf for improving Lands in any Parish on the Line, are free from Tonnage Rates.

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

A second act was applied for and obtained in 1800, under the title of 'An Act for better enabling the Company of Proprietors of the Rochdale Canal to raise Money for completing the said Canal, and to vary the Line of the said Canal, and to alter, explain and amend the Act passed in the Thirty-fourth of his present Majesty, for making the said Canal;' which, having stated that the company, under the sanction of the former act, had expended the £291,900 they were thereby empowered to raise, and had also incurred considerable debts in the prosecution of the works, goes on to empower the proprietors to increase the rates of tonnage and to raise the sum of £100,000, which the former act empowered them to borrow, in the following manner, viz, to such of the present proprietors as are willing to advance £30 per cent, on their respective shares, promissory notes may be issued payable at the end of eight years, and bearing interest at £5 per cent. per annum, such interest to be paid half yearly; if not paid at the end of eight years, the sums advanced may, if the owners wish, be made capital stock in the undertaking; or the company may borrow money on annuities to be secured on the rates. For meeting the increased expenditure, this act authorizes the demand of the following

ADDITIONAL TONNAGE RATES.
The Company may fix the Rates for Parcels under One Ton, which Ton is to contain Twenty Hundred of One Hundred and Twelve Pounds each.