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TONNAGE RATES CONTINUED.
The Tolls taken by the Duke of Beaufort, on that Part of the Canal belonging to him, to be the same as those taken by the Company.

No Boat under Fifteen Tons to pass any Lock when the Water does not flow over the Waste Weir; nor any Boat under Ten Tons to pass when it does so flow, without leave or paying the Tonnage respectively.

Mr. Thomas Sheasby was the engineer employed in this canal, which was completed and opened in October, 1798. The principal objects for which it was executed are the export of coals, ironstone, &amp;c. with which the country abounds, and the convevyance of lime to the intermediate works and country, and of copper and other ores and minerals to the extensive foundries about Swansea.

TAMAR MANURE NAVIGATION.
36 George III. Cap. 67, Royal Assent 26th April, 1796.

THE River Tamar, under authority of this act of parliament, is made navigable from Morwelham Quay, near Calstock, (where the Tavistock Canal begins) up to Boat Pool, from whence a canal has been made, which runs in a course a little to the west of north, by Launceston, Milton Abbott, Bradstone, Lifton, Warrington, Northcott and Tetcott, to Tamerton Bridge, a distance of about twenty-two miles. There is a collateral cut near Poulson Bridge, to Launceston.

The act is entitled, 'An Act for making and maintaining a Navigation from Morwelham Quay, in the parish of Tavistock, in the county of Devon, to Tamerton Bridge, in the parish of North Tamerton, in the county of Cornwall; and also a certain collateral Cut from Poulson Bridge, in the parish of Lifton, in the said county of Devon, to Richgrove Mill, in the parish of St. Stephen, near to the borough of Launceston, in the said county of Cornwall.' It empowers the company of proprietors to raise amongst