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In 1795 the company obtained another act, entitled, 'An Act for making a navigable Cut from the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, in the parish of Lapworth, unto the Warwick and Birmingham Canal, in the manor of Kingswood, in the county of Warwick,' which empowered them to raise a further sum of £10,000, by mortgage of the tolls, &amp;c. and to take on the intended new cut the following

TONNAGE RATES.
And so in proportion for a less Quantity than a Ton.

The act provides that the following rates shall be paid to the Warwick and Birmingham Canal Company, over and above the rates allowed them by the act for making their canal, by way of compensation for any injury they may sustain by the intended cut.

TONNAGE RATES.
No higher Rate than Three Half-pence per Ton to be taken by the Proprietors of the Warwick and Birmingham Canal, for passing upon that Canal between the Place where it is to be joined by the intended Cut and the Town of Warwick, on any Coal, Goods or other Things subject to the Payment hereinbefore made payable to that Company, of the Rate of Eleven-pence per Ton.