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Lords of manors and owners of land may erect wharfs and warehouses on the canal, and take the above wharfage rates; if they refuse to do so, the company may erect them.

In 1798 a second act of parliament was obtained, entitled, 'An Act for amending and enlarging the Powers of an Act, passed in the Thirty-third Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for making and maintaining a navigable Canal from the River Dun Navigation Cut, at or near Stainforth, in the West Riding of the county of York, to join and communicate with the River Trent, at or near Keadby, in the county of Lincoln; and also a collateral Cut from the said Canal, to join the said River Dun, in the parish of Thorne, in the said Riding,' which repealed that part of the former act authorizing the company to raise the additional sum of £12,100, and empowered the proprietors to raise amongst themselves, in addition to their original capital, the sum of £20,000; and, if necessary, a further sum of £10,000, by mortgage of the tolls, &amp;c.

The last act of parliament relating to this canal was obtained in 1809, and is entitled, 'An Act to enable the Company of Proprietors of the Stainforth and Keadby Canal Navigation, to raise a further Sum of Money for the Discharge of their Debts, and to finish and complete the said Canal Navigation; and for amending the several Acts passed relative thereto.' It states that the company of proprietors had raised amongst themselves, nearly the whole of the two sums of £24,200 and £20,000 provided to be raised by the former acts; repeals that clause of the last act authorizing them to raise £10,000 by mortgage of the tolls, &amp;c. and empowers them to raise that sum amongst themselves.

This canal passes through a very flat part of the country, for there is only one lock of 5 feet fall near Thorne, exclusive of the tide-lock where it falls into the Trent at Keadby.

By connecting the Rivers Dun and Trent, it avoids the shoals in the lower part of the former river, and affords a better line of communication with Lincolnshire, the East Riding of York and the port of Hull.