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TONNAGE RATES.
For all Lime, Lime-stone and Stones to be used for Building, and Materials for paving and repairing Roads, Half of the Rates, Tolls and Duties hereinbefore authorized to be taken an Coals.

EXEMPTIONS.
No additional Tonnage Rates or Duties whatever shall be taken on any Goods, Wares or Merchandize, which shall pass from the Oakham Canal and shall be carried no further than the Public Basin at Melton Mowbray, nor on any Timber, Stone, Lime or other Material for the use of the Oakham Canal.

The length of this navigation, from its junction with the Leicester in Turnwater Meadow, to Melton, is eleven miles, in a north-west direction; the design of executing it is the same which induced the proprietors of the Leicester Navigation to undertake that work, and the benefits accruing to the various districts on the line of the work itself, and its communications, are of very considerable importance.

WYE AND LUGG RIVERS.
14 Char. II. C. 14, R. A. l9th May, 1662.

7 &amp; 8 Wil. III. C. 14, R. A. 7th March, 1695.

13 Geo. I. C. 34, R. A. 15th May, 1727.

49 Geo. III. C. 78, R. A. 20th May, 1809.

THIS delightful river has, like the Severn, its source in the mountains of Plynlimmon, which are at an elevation of 2,463 feet above the level of the sea, and separate the counties of Cardigan