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Rh navigable communication between the Calder, at Horbury Pasture, and the Barnsley Canal, at Barugh Mill, the length of which would be six miles, and the estimate, amounting to £72,115, was made by the late Mr. Jessop, Mr. Elias Wright, and Mr. Gott, the engineers employed on the Barnsley Canal; but no part of this canal has ever been executed.

THE RATES OF TONNAGE ALLOWED UNDER THIS ACT.
The only railway belonging to this company, made under the authority of the before-mentioned act, is from Barnby Basin to Norcroft Bridge, near the Silkstone Collieries, and is one mile and a quarter in length.

TONNAGE RATES ON THE RAILWAY.
From the preamble of a second act, passed in the 48th George III. and entitled,  'An Act for amending and enlarging the Powers of an Act of his present Majesty, for making and maintaining the Barnsley Canal Navigation, and certain Railways and other Roads to communicate therewith; and for increasing the Rates, Tolls, and Duties, thereby granted,'  it appears that the company had expended the sum of £97,000, authorized to be raised under the preceding act, in the canal alone, and had incurred sundry debts; they, therefore, obtained power to raise the further sum of £43,200, by a call of £60 on every shareholder of £100 each,