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No Waggon or other Carrisge shall be permitted to carry at one Time, including the weight of such Carriage, more than Four Tons Weight, except in any one Piece of Timber, Block or Stone, Boiler, Cylinder, Bob or single Piece of Machinery, or other single Article which nevertheless shall not exceed Eight Tons, and for which the Company may claim Sixpence per Ton per Mile. And no Piece of Timber. &amp;c. weighing Eight Tons, including the Carriage, shall pass without the special Licence of the Company.

If the works are not completed in seven years, the powers of the act are to cease, except as to such parts as may have been executed.

In this act there is a clause for preserving the rights of his Majesty, of the Mersey and Irwell Navigation Company, of the Liverpool Corporation and Dock Trustees, and of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company.

By the execution of this railway, an expeditious mode will be afforded of conveying coals from the extensive coal field of St. Helen's, Wirdle, Parr and Sutton, to the port of Liverpool, and the Cheshire Salt Works; and aided by the dock, quays and other works near Runcorn Gap, will give great facility to the re-shipping of merchandize.

SALISBURY AND SOUTHAMPTON CANAL.
35 George III. Cap. 51, Royal Assent 30th April, 1795.

40 George III. Cap. 108, Royal Assent 9th July, 1800.

THE first act of parliament respecting this undertaking was passed in 1795, and is entitled, 'An Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal from the town and county of Southampton, to the city of New Sarum, in the county of Wilts, with a collateral Branch to Northam, within the Liberties of the town of Southampton.' This was followed in 1800 by a second act, entitled, 'An Act for altering and amending an Act made in the Thirty-fifth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, entitled, An Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal from the town and county of Southampton, to the city of New Sarum, in the county of Wilts, with a collateral Branch to Northam, within the liberties of the town of Southampton.'  The canal contemplated by these acts of parliament has been in part only made, that portion of it only between Southampton