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, Esquires, had undertaken to make and continue navigable the said river, provided an act of parliament could be obtained authorizing them to do so, and to collect certain tolls and rates thereon; the act, therefore, empowers them to complete this undertaking, and to collect the following

TONNAGE RATES.
And so in proportion for any lees Quantity.

Boats returning with a back Lading of Oil-cake, Malt-dust, Pigeon Dung or any other Kind of Manure, which have passed up or down the River immediately before, and paid the Tolls or Rates on their Cargoes, shall be exempted from Tonnage Rate on such Manure.

The tolls, rates and duties on this navigation to be exempted from all taxes and rates whatsoever.

Lords of manors and owners of land on this navigation may build warehouses; and on their refusing to do so, the undertakers may build them. Five years are allowed to the undertakers to complete the navigation.

The part of the river made navigable under authority of these acts, is about ten miles in length, in a southerly and westerly course. It joins the Lea Navigation about a mile and a half from Hoddesden, thus affording a means for the conveyance of corn, malt and other agricultural produce to London.

STOURBRIDGE CANAL.
16 George III. Cap. 28, Royal Assent 2nd April, 1776.

22 George III. Cap. 14, Royal Assent 25th March, 1782.

THIS canal commences at or near Stourbridge, in the county of Worcester, and proceeds parallel with the River Stour to Wordesley Brook, where it crosses the river, and pursues its course to the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, which it joins at a place called Stewponey, near Stourton. It has also two collateral cuts, one from the fens upon Pensnet Chase to its