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TONNAGE RATES.
For every Vessel continuing in the Basin or Dock more than Four Days after the Cargo is discharged, One Penny per Ton per Week, to be computed from the Register of the Vessel.

For Goods remaining on Wharfs longer than Twenty-four Hours, such Rate as may be agreed on.

A junction may be formed between this and the Lancaster Canal, and coal, culm and cinders carried from the Lancaster into the Ulverstone Canal, are not liable to the sea duty.

Mr. John Rennie was the engineer employed on this canal, which was completed in 1797. It is 65 feet wide at top, 30 feet at bottom, and 15 feet deep; at the lowest neap tides there is a depth of 9 feet water at the gates of the lock, and at spring-tides, of 20 feet. A public swing bridge is erected over the canal at Hammerside.

This canal has fully answered the purposes for which it was undertaken, and is of great benefit to the town of Ulverstone, being most convenient for the iron works established in its neighbourhood.

URE RIVER.
7 George III. Cap. 93, Royal Assent 15th April, 1767.

1 George IV. Cap. 35, Royal Assent 23rd June, 1820.

THE portion of the River Ure made navigable under authority of the above acts of parliament, is that which, commencing at its junction with the Swale, and running in a westerly course, passing Boroughbridge and Newby Hall, terminates at Ripon.

The act of 1767, entitled,' An Act for making navigable the River Ure from its Junction with the River Swale, to the borough of Ripon, in the county of York,' appoints certain commissioners to carry into effect the purposes of the act, with powers to borrow such sums of money as they may find necessary for completing the undertaking, upon the credit of the tolls, and to take the following tonnage rates.