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The act empowers the company to raise amongst themselves, £13,000 in shares of £50 each, and if necessary, a further sum of £10,000, by mortgage of the tolls, &amp;c. and to take the following

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

Only Half the above Rates to be paid for Coal, Plaster and Lime, upon any Part of this Navigation, except for Vessels navigating between Gainsborough and Dunham Shoal, and navigating no higher up the River.

Only a Half-penny per Ton to be paid on Coal, Plaster, Lime or other Goods, Wares, &amp;c. carried on this River to Dunham Shoal and no further up, and so proportionably in case such Coal, &amp;c. shall not be conveyed the whole Distance from Gainsborough to Dunham Shoal; and no Tonnage of any Kind to be paid for Coal, &amp;c. conveyed down the River from Dunham Shoal to Gainsborough, or from any intermediate Place, and not brought from any Place higher up this River than Dunham Shoal.

The annual rent of £5 paid to this company by the proprietors of the Soar Navigation and Erewash Canal to cease, and in lieu thereof, every laden boat, crossing the Trent at such place, to pay sixpence.

No rates to be taken until the sum of £13,000 be expended for the purposes of the act. The profits on this navigation are not to exceed seven per cent.

The same rates to be taken on the cut as those allowed by former acts on the river.

The length of this river from Burton-upon-Trent, where it becomes navigable, to the Humber, is about one hundred and seventeen miles, and the fall to low-water-mark is 118 feet.

This river, connecting the port of Hull with a wide extent of agricultural, milling and manufacturing country, by means of the various rivers and canals which communicate with it, affords an easy means of export for the manufactures of a large district in Lancashire; the salt from Cheshire; the produce of the potteries in Staffordshire; the coal from Derbyshire; and the agricultural produce of Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire. It also opens a communication with the sea by way of Lincoln and Boston; through which channels, as well as the Humber, the