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The company may provide carriages for the conveyance of passengers, and charge for each person so conveyed a rate of 4d. per mile; or they may license carriages for the same purpose, subject to the payment of an annual rent to be agreed upon between the company and the owners thereof. Locomotive engines may be used on the railway, and steam engines may be erected for the inclined planes.

Owners of land may erect wharfs, warehouses and cranes on the line, and if they refuse the company may do so, charging for the use thereof the following

RATES.
If the work is not finished in five years, then the powers of this act are to cease.

WITHAM RIVER.
22 &amp; 23 Char. II. C. 25, R. A. 22nd April, 1671.

2 Geo. III. C. 32, R. A. 2nd June, 1762.

48 Geo. III. C. 108, R. A. 18th June, 1808.

52 Geo. III. C. 108, R. A. 20th May, 1812.

7 Geo. IV. C. 2, R. A. 22nd Mar. 1826.

10 Geo. IV. C. 123, R. A. 4th June, 1829.

THIS river has its source on the confines of Rutlandshire, whence it runs northwardly by Grantham to the city of Lincoln, where, at its junction with the Fossdike Navigation, it becomes navigable. Hence its course is south-easterly by the town of Tattershall, where the Horncastle Navigation effects a junction with it; and three miles further south it is joined by the Sleaford Canal; it then passes through the fens by the town of Boston, five miles below which place it empties itself into The Wash. The length of navigation is about thirty-eight miles, viz, from the city of Lincoln to the Horncastle Navigation, nineteen miles; thence to the Sleaford Canal, three miles; thence to Boston eleven miles; and to the sea a further distance of five miles.