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The Stratford-upon-Avon Canal Company not to erect wharfs, &amp;c. on the intended cut, without leave of the Warwick and Birmingham Canal Company; but Thomas Fetherston may erect such wharfs, &amp;c. on his land at Lapworth, without such permission; and Mr. Fetherston, or the occupier of his wharfs, are to pay for the carriage of coal, coke, iron, ironstone and other goods and things (except limestone) on this canal, 1½d. per ton per mile; and for limestone ½d. per ton per mile only.

Lords of manors and owners of land may erect wharfs on this navigation, and on their refusing, the company may do it, and all coal, merchandize and other things which shall be sold and shipped from such wharfs, between the place where the intended cut joins the Warwick and Birmingham Canal and Preston Mill (over and above two hundred tons in each year) shall pay the tonnage rate of 11½d. per ton to the proprietors of the Warwick and Birmingham Canal, whether it passes on their canal or not.

In 1809 another act was obtained, entitled, 'An Act to amend and enlarge the Powers of the several Acts relating to the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal Navigation;' which, after stating that the money raised was not sufficient for the purposes of the undertaking, empowers the company to raise a further sum of £90,000, either amongst themselves or by creation of new shares, the number of such new shares not to exceed three thousand, and to be of £30 or £40 value, as the company may deem expedient; or the above sum may be raised by mortgage of the tolls; and should this amount prove insufficient, they may raise an additional sum of £30,000 in either of the ways above stated, but the number of new shares created for raising this £30,000 not to exceed seven hundred and fifty.

The act of 1815, entitled, 'An Act to amend several Acts of his present Majesty, for making the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal Navigation,' authorizes the company of proprietors to make reservoirs at Earl's Wood, and (with consent of the owners of land) to divert streams and use the flood-waters which overflow the lands at Earl's Wood.

In 1817 the company obtained another act, entitled, 'An Act to enable the Company of Proprietors of the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal Navigation to raise Money, to discharge their Debts, and to