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WHARFAGE AND WAREHOUSING RATES.
The Column marked thus (*) are the Rates to be taken for Forty-eight Hours.

The Column marked thus (+) ditto, the next Ten Days.

The Column marked thus (±) ditto, every subsequent Day.

The act directs that the whole sum necessary for making this railway shall be subscribed before the work is commenced, and that it shall be completed in five years.

The management of the company's affairs to be conducted by a committee of five persons, who are to be under the control of the general assemblies of proprietors.

An estimate of the expense of laying down this railway, made in 1821, by Mr. Thomas Baylls, was £33,456, 16s. 8d.

In 1825 a second act of parliament was passed relating to this railway, entitled, 'An Act to amend an Act passed in the First and Second Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, entitled, An Act for making and maintaining a Railway or Tramroad from Stratford-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick, to Moreton-in-Marsh, in the county of Gloucester, with a Branch to Shipston-upon-Stour, in the county of Worcester; and for making further Provisions touching the same.' 

This act makes some alteration in the line of the branch to Shipston-upon-Stour, and states, that to carry on the work the company had borrowed the sum of £11,300 of different persons, proprietors of shares, and that £36,000 more would be wanted to complete the undertaking, and that Thomas Dudley, Esq. of Shutt End, near Dudley, had agreed to advance them £15,000 as a loan, provided he had a mortgage of the tolls and rates made to him as a security; and that £6,000 more would be raised by the proprietors amongst themselves. The act then authorizes the