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 outer harbour made by the company, he was likely to sustain considerable injury from a diminution of wharfage, by goods being deposited on the wharfs adjoining the outer harbour. The act therefore authorizes the company to pay to Mr. Bathurst, his heirs and assigns for ever, the following

RATES.
And on all Goods landed on the Company's Wharfs (except Coals to be shipped as above, and Materials for Repair of the Company's Works which shall be forwarded within Fourteen Days, or any Goods (not Coal) which shall be landed in transitu upon such Wharfs, and shall be transshipped within One Month) the same Wharfage Rate shall be paid to Mr. Bathurst, as would have been, had they been landed on his own Wharfs, and the Tolls of the Company to be a Security for the Payment of these Rates which are in Addition to, and not to affect the £500 per Annum guaranteed to Mr. Bathurst by the former Act.

This railway and canal, by its cosnmunication with the Rivers Severn and Wye, opens a channel for the transit of his Majesty's timber in the forest of Dean; and of the coal, stone and iron-ore which abound in the said forest, and which are raised by other parties.

SHEFFIELD CANAL.
55 George III. Cap. 65, Royal Assent 7th June, 1815.

THIS canal, which connects the town of Sheffield with the River Dunn, commences in the township of Tinsley, in a cut communicating with the River Dunn, and thence passes through the township of Attercliffe, in the parish of Rotherham, and, by an aqueduct, over the road from Worksop to Attercliffe, a distance of a little more than four miles, to Sheffield. There is likewise a side-cut of forty-seven chains in length, running by the side of Car Brook, to the township of Darnal, at the end of which is a reservoir called Darnal Reservoir; there are abo two other reservoirs covering in the whole about thirty-two acres and a half.