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 "Navigation," and empowers them to raise amongst themselves, for the purposes of the act, the sum of £100,000, in one thousand shares of £100 each, and if necessary, a further sum of £30,000.

The course prescribed by this act was soon found to be inconvenient, the company of proprietors therefore obtained a second act of parliament in 1796, entitled,' An Act for authorizing the Company of Proprietors of time Warwick and Braunston Canal Navigation to vary the Course of a certain Part of the said Canal, and for amending and altering the Act made in the Thirty-fourth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty for making the said Canal,' which authorized them to adopt the present line of the canal, and change the name of the company to that of "The Company of Proprietors of the Warwick and Napton Navigation ;" and to take the following

TONNAGE RATES.
Lime and Lime-stone only half the said Tonnage.

Fractions of a Mile to be taken as a Mile, and of a Quarter of a Ton as a Quarter.

Only Two-pence per Ton per Mile to be taken on Goods carried on this Canal, not exceeding Five Miles from the Warwick and Birmingham Navigation; nor more than Three Half-pence per Ton per Mile for Free-stone, nor any Tonnage on empty Boats passing for the purpose of fetching Free-stone, or Boats laden with Manure for the Lands of Persons whose Ground has been taken for the Canal.

The first act of parliament contained certain clauses of tonnage rates in favour of the Oxford Canal Company, which by this act are repealed, and in lieu thereof, it is enacted :-

"That time proprietors of the Oxford Canal shall receive, over and above the rate of tonnage they are entitled to, on coal, goods, &amp;c. passing on their canal by virtue of any act now in force, the following