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 Charles Bathurst shall be allowed the Use and Benefit of the Outer Harbour, Basin and Canal, for the conveying of any Coal, Lime-stone, Iron-stone, Iron Metals or any Goods whatever, to and from their Collieries and Iron Works, for the Use thereof or for Sale therefrom, free from all Tolls or Rates; and should there be any obstruction in the Creek or Basin, shall use the Railways by the Sides of the Creek and Basin with like Exemption from Tolls.

Boats of less than Twenty Tons Burthen to pay the same as those of Twenty Tons, except the contrary be allowed by the Company or their principal Agent.

The same Rate of Wharfage to be taken as in former Act.

The rates of the company to be a security to Mr. Bathurst for the £500 per annum guaranteed to him for wharfage rates, and they are also to pay him 10s. per annum for a piece of land of 70 feet in length and forty yards in breadth, on the basin, for a wharf for his tenants, Messrs. Pidcock and Company. The rates for warehouse-room to be the same as those taken upon the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, at Stourport, in Worcestershire.

In consideration of the company (by consent of the Surveyor General of his Majesty's Woods and Forests) deviating about five hundred yards from their original line, near Daniel Moor Ditches, they are to pay £10 a year, in addition to the £300 per annum provided to be paid in the former act.

The act of parliament obtained by the company in 1811 states that they have expended the £35,000, their original capital, with £15,600, part of the £20,000 which they were empowered to raise in addition thereto by the former act, and authorizes them to raise a further sum of £30,000, either by creation of new shares, or by borrowing it on optional notes. It likewise removes the exemption from tolls of those vessels entering into or going from the canal or basin with coal or other commodities, which have been already carried on and paid the tolls of the railroad, and these vessels are in future to pay the same tolls as others, but it continues the exemption in favor of the tenants of the collieries and iron works of Mr. Bathurst.

In 1814 the company obtained another act of parliament, authorizing them to raise a further sum of £30,000 in the same manner as in the preceding act.

The last act of parliament respecting this company was passed in 1822, and provides a compensation to Mr. Bathurst, who had built wharfs and warehouses and appropriated land for them, under the authority of the acts of parliament passed herein, but in consequence of the extension of the railway beyond his land to the