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WHARFAGE RATES.
If the above remain on Wharfs or in Warehouses above Forty-eight Hours, then there shall be paid in addition for the first Seven Days, One Penny per Ton for Wharfage and Two-pence for Warehousing, and the like Sums respectively for every further Seven Days.

Abounding as this country does with such abundance of mineral, the traffic upon this railway will amply repay the spirited proprietors who have embarked so large a capital in the construction of the work.

SAINT COLUMB CANAL.
13 George III. Cap. 93, Royal Assent 1st April, 1773.

THIS canal was executed under the authority of the above act of parliament, which is entitled, 'An Act for making or continuing a navigable Cut or Canal from Maugan Porth, through the several parishes of Maugan, Saint Columb Major, Little Colan and Saint Columb Minor, to Lower Saint Columb Porth, in the county of Cornwall,' and which authorizes John Edyvean, of Saint Austell, in the county of Cornwall, gentleman, and his executors, administrators and assigns to make and complete this canal, and to levy thereon the following

TONNAGE RATES.
It is stated that this canal will afford the means of improving many thousand acres of barren and unprofitable ground within and near the several parishes through which it passes; and it is enacted that it shall be exempted from the payment of any taxes, rates or assessments whatsoever.

For supplying this canal with water, power is given, by the act of parliament, to take all streams within three miles of the same; and also to make reservoirs within the same distance.