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Boats of less than Twenty Tons passing any Lock to pay for Twenty Tons.

No Vessels to pass to or from this canal into the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, unless the Water in this Canal shall be at least Six Inches higher than that in the Birmingham and Fazeley, at the Junction of the Canals, and all surplus Water is to pass into the Birmingham Canal, the Proprietors of which may take the Water used in Lockage upon certain Parts of this Canal.

The proprietors of the Birmingham Canal may take, for all goods which are carried from this into their canal, the following

TONNAGE RATES.
The act passed in 1794, entitled, 'An Act for extending the Wyrley and Essington Canal,' empowers the company to raise amongst theniselves, for the purpose of extending this canal as stated in the first part of this article, the sum of £75,000, and, if necessary, the further sum of £40,000, to be divided into shares of the same value as those in the first act, and authorizes their taking the following

TONNAGE RATES.
The act directs that the company shall purchase the shares of such proprietors as shall not be satisfied with the extension.

Mr. W. Pitt was the engineer employed on this canal, which is twenty-four miles in length from the Coventry Canal to its junction with the Birmingham Canal. In the first eight miles of