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TONNAGE RATES.
And in proportion for any greater or less Distance or Quantity.

Any Goods remaining on any Wharf longer than Twenty-four Hours, to pay such Rate as may be agreed upon with the Parties, and in case of Dispute, to be settled by the Commissioners appointed under the Act.

The act provides that certain rates shall be taken by the company of proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation, on goods passing from their canal into the Thames and Severn Canal, which rates will be found in our article on the Stroudwater Navigation; and it also directs that on goods passing from, the said Stroudwater Navigation into this canal, the company shall take the following

TONNAGE RATES.
For Coal going more than One Hundred and Fifty Yards above the said Road, the usual Tonnage Rates taken on the Canal.

And passing more than One Hundred and Fifty Yards above the said Road the usual Tonnage Rates.

If this Company reduce their Tonnage Rates on Coal to One Penny per Ton per Mile, the Stroudwater Navigation to reduce theirs also to that Sum, on all Coal carried from their Canal to this, and to more than One Hundred and Fifty Yards above the Road at Brimseombe, and all Materials for making or repairing either of these Canals, to pass free on each of them.

Vessels of less than Six Tons to pay a Lock Due of Sixpence at each Lock, for Waste of Water, and in addition to pay for Six Tons of Lading.

In 1791 the company obtained another act of parliament, entitled, 'An Act to enable the Company of Proprietors of the Thames and Severn Canal Navigation, to borrow a further Sum of Money to complete the said Navigation,' which empowered them th borrow an additional sum of £60,000, by mortgage of the tolls and rates.