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WHARFAGE RATES CONTINUED.
If lords of manors, &amp;c. omit to erect wharfs or warehouses, when required so to do, the company may erect them and collect the rates stated above.

The whole money required to be subscribed before the commencement of the work, which is to be completed in five years.

In 1823 the company obtained a second act of parliament, entitled, 'An Act to enable the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company to vary and alter the Line of their Railway, and also the Line or Lines of some of the Branches therefrom, and for altering and enlarging the Powers of the Act passed for making and maintaining the said Railway;' which empowered them to make some alterations in the line of their railway, and an additional branch therefrom, commencing near Hill House in Darlington Bondgate, and terminating at the east end of Croft Bridge, in the parish of Hurworth.

By a plan and estimate made by Mr. George Stevenson, in February, 1823, it appears that the alterations in the line would considerably lessen the distance of the railway, which would be as follows;-