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TONNAGE RATES CONTINUED.
Fractions of a Quarter of a Ton to be considered as a Quarter, but all Fractions of a Mile as a Mile.

Lords of manors and owners of land on the railway may erect wharfs and warehouses, and on their refusing to do so when required, the company may erect them, and may receive such reasonable rates and allowance on all goods lying on or in them more than twenty-four hours, as the commissioners appointed under this act shall deem sufficient.

The act provides that nothing contained in it shall prejudice the rights of the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the city of London, as conservators of the River Thames; and that the company shall pay to the said Lord Mayor and Corporation the sum of 21s. as a fine or acknowledgment for opening a communication between the basin and the River Thames, and an annual rent of £10 as a compensation for the diminution of any tolls or rates which may be caused by this undertaking.

A second act of parliament was obtained in 1805 by this company, entitled, 'An Act to enable the Company of Proprietors of the Surrey Iron Railway to raise a further Sum of Money, for completing the said Railway, and the Works thereunto belonging,' which empowered them to raise an additional sum of £10,000 for the completion of the work, either amongst themselves, by the creation of new shares, or by mortgage of the tolls and rates.

The railway is double throughout, and at the north-west end of Croydon is but about three-eighths of a mile from the Croydon Canal. Its principal object is to facilitate the conveyance of lime, chalk, flint, fullers' earth and agricultural products from its neighbourhood to London; and in return to take from thence coals and manure for the supply of the country through which it passes.

SWALE RIVER.
(SEE [[/Ouse River, York|OUSE RIVER, YORK].)