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0n all Coal carried from the said Cut on the Warwick and Birmingham Canal towards Birmingham, the same Rate shall be paid to that Company (instead of any other Rates under their or this Act) that would be payable to them on Coal passing from the Town of Birmingham, to the Place where their Canal is to be joined by the intended Cut; and on Coal passing from the said Cut on the Warwick and Birmingham Canal towards Warwick, which shall be unloaded at any Place between the said Cut and the Upper Lock below Hatton Hill, the same Rate shall be paid as would have been had it passed from Birmingham to such Place.

Only Five-pence HaIf-penny per Ton to be paid to the Worcester and Birmingham Canal Company for any Coal or Coke carried on any Part of their Canal, to the Northward of its Junction with the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, and which shall pass without being unladen from the Worcester and Birmingham Canal into the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, to be carried to the Warwick and Birmingham Canal; and Ten-pence Half-penny per Ton only to be paid to the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal Company, for Coal and Coke passing from the Worcester and Birmingham through their Canal to the Warwick and Birmingham Canal.

The next act relating to this canal was passed in 1799, and is entitled, 'An Act for authorizing the Company of Proprietors of the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal Navigation, to vary the Course of certain Parts of the said Canal, directed to be made by an Act, passed in the Thirty-third Year of the Reign of his present Majesty; and also to make a Branch out of the said Canal; and also to vary the Course of a navigable Cut directed to be made from the said Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, in the parish of Lapworth, into the Warwick and Birmingham Canal, in the manor of Kingswood, in the county of Warwick, by another Act passed in the Thirty-fifth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty; and for amending the said Acts.' It authorizes the company to make some alterations in the original line and a branch in the parish of Aston Cantlow; and also to raise a further sum of £35,000, (in addition to £10,000 which they are empowered to raise by the preceding act,) either amongst themselves, by the creation of new shares, or by mortgage of the tolls or granting annuities; if raised by subscription, it is to be divided into twelve hundred quarter shares of £37, 10s. each.

As a compensation to the Warwick and Birmingham Canal for any injury they may sustain by the alteration in the line of the Lapworth Cut, they are to receive ½d. per ton additional on all goods and in all cases in which they are authorized to receive 11d. per ton by the preceding act; and they are to take at the rate of 1½d. per ton per mile on all goods carried on their canal from the place where the intended cut will join it, and where the junction was proposed to be by the former act, which distance is to be taken as a quarter of a mile.