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The commissioners are empowered to borrow such sum of money as may be necessary for the completion of the work, by mortgage of the tolls, &amp;c.

The next act of parliament, passed in 1783, and entitled, 'An Act for empowering Persons navigating Vessels upon the River Trent, between a Place called Wilden Ferry, in tile counties of Derby and Leicester, or one of them, and the town of Burton-upon-Trent, in the county of Stafford, to hale the same with Horses,' repeals that part of a former act which provides that the barges, &amp;c. on this navigation shall be haled by men only, and allows horses to he used.

This act was followed by another in the same year, entitled, 'An Act for improving the Navigation of the River Trent, from a Place called Wilden Ferry, in the counties of Derby and Leicester, or one of them, to Gainsborough, in the county of Lincoln; and for empowering Persons navigating Vessels thereon, to hale the same with Horses;' which appointed commissioners to carry the purposes of the act into execution, and who are authorized to take the following

TONNAGE RATES.
The act also repeals that portion of a former act which limited the haling of barges and other vessels to men only.

The last act of parliament relating to the navigation of this river was passed in 1794, and is entitled, 'An Act to alter and amend an Act of the Twenty-third Year of his present Majesty, for improving the Navigation of the River Trent, and for making and maintaining a navigable Canal from the said River, in the parish of Beeston, to join the Nottingham Canal, in the parish of Lenton, in the county of Nottingham; and also certain Cuts on the Side of the said River.'  The canal cut under the authority of this act of parliament, commences in the parish of Beeston, and running northerly joins the Nottingham Canal, in the parish of Lenton.