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The Honourable Charles Bathurst is to allot sufficient land for wharfs on the Severn, and the company are to guarantee the wharfage to him from 1st January, 1813, to be not less than £500 per annum, they making up the deficiency, if any.

The next act of parliament obtained by this company is entitled, 'An Act to alter and amend the Lydney and Lidbrook Railway Act; to vary certain Parts of the said Railway, and to extend the same from Lydbrook to Bishop's Wood, and from the Lower Forge to the Cross Pill; and for making a Basin and Canal to communicate with the River Severn at Nass Point.' This act alters the title of the company to that of "The Severn and Wye Railway and Canal Company," as it stands in the heading of this article, and authorizes them to continue the main line from Lidbrook to Bishop's Wood Furnace on the Wye, and from the Lower Forge in two branches, one on each side of a basin to be cut by the company to a creek called Cross Pill; and they are also to cut a basin at forty yards distance from and above the creek called Cross Pill, to be two hundred yards in length, fifty yards in breadth, and 21 feet deep; and a canal of 21 feet deep, eight yards in width at the bottom and twenty-eight yards at the top, to extend from the basin to the River Severn at Nass Point; they are also to make a lock between the canal and outer harbour, 21 feet wide and 90 feet long, and an outer harbour 28 feet deep, eighty yards long and twenty-six yards wide at the bottom, with a pair of gates or a lock to open into the Severn with the tide; they are also required to divert the waters of a creek called Lidney Pill into this basin and canal, and to stop up the present course of the creek. The company are authorized to take the following rates on the canal.

TONNAGE RATES.
Fractions to be taken as for a Quarter of a Ton.

EXEMPTIONS.
Vessels conveying Coal or other Commodities which have been carried on the Railway, and paid the Tolls authorized to be taken thereon, are exempted from these Rates; and a special Clause provides that Messrs. Pidcock and Co. the now Tenants, and any future Tenants, of the Collieries and Iron Works of the