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And in proportion for greater or less Quantities.

Lime and Lime-stone are to pay Two-thirds of the above Rates only.

Paving-stones, Gravel, Sand and other Materials for Roads; and Dung, Soil and other Manure (except Lime and Lime-stone) for the Grounds of Persons whose Lands have been taken for the Canal, and provided they do not pass any Lock unless the Water shall flow over the Waste Weir, are exempted from these Rates.

Wharfage on Goods remaining more than Twenty-four Hours, is to be such Sum as the Parties may agree on.

The act grants to the Birmingham Canal Company certain tonnages for the permission to join their canal, which will be found under the head of the "Birmingham Canal Navigations," in this work.

The act of parliament obtained by the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal Company, to connect their canal with the Warwick and Birmingham Canal, by the Lapworth Cut, also directs certain rates to be paid by them to the proprietors of the Warwick and Birmingham Canal, which will be found in the account of the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, as the clause is contained in that canal act.

The length of this canal is twenty-two miles and a half; the first half mile from its commencement at Saltisford, to near Budbrook, is level; thence to Hatton, two miles and a half, is a rise of 146 feet by twenty locks; thence to the Stratford Branch, about four miles, is level; thence to Knowle Common, about four miles and a quarter, is level; thence to Knowle Wharf, a quarter of a mile, is a rise of 42 feet by seven locks; thence to near Deritend, about ten miles, is level; and thence to the Digbeth Branch of the Birmingham Canal, about a mile, is a fall of 42 feet by five locks. At the termination at Digbeth a stop-lock is erected, which the Birmingham and Fazeley Company may fasten up, whenever the water in this canal is of less depth than 4 feet at this lock.

At Haseley this canal passes through a tunnel of three hundred yards in length; and there is another tunnel at Rowington; at Henwood Wharf it crosses the Blythe River, by an aqueduct; near Flint Green it passes over the Cole River in the same manner; and there is a third aqueduct over the Rea River near its termination at Digbeth.

A second act of parliament was obtained by this company in 1796, entitled,' An Act for enabling the Company of Proprietors of the Warwick and Birmingham Canal Navigation, to finish