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Rh further power to raise a further sum of £40,000, if necessary. The affairs of the company are managed by twenty proprietors, who form a committee, and who are under the control of the general meetings of the company. {{c|

TONNAGE RATES.
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In this act, the proprietors of the navigation of the River Wey agree to receive only one shilling per ton for all descriptions of merchandize, &amp;c. passing on the Wey River, between this canal and the Thames; and they further agree to keep their locks of the length of 81 feet, and 14 feet wide.

By an act of the 33rd George III. entitled,  'An Act for effectually carrying into Execution an Act of Parliament of the Eighteenth Year of his present Majesty, for making a navigable Canal from the town of Basingstoke, in the county of Southampton, to communicate with the River Wey, in the parish of Chertsey, in the county of Surrey, and to the South-East Side of the Turnpike-Road, in the parish of Turgiss, in the said county of Southampton,'  it is stated that the sum of £126,000, authorized to be raised by the preceding act, is all expended; that their works are not completed, and that they have incurred some debt: they area therefore, empowered to raise, upon loans or annuities, on mortgage of the tolls, the further sum of £60,000, with which sum they were enabled to finish their works, which were opened in 1796.

The trade upon this canal consists chiefly of coals, deals, groceries, bale goods, &amp;c. from London; and the exports are timber, flour, malt, bark, and earthenware.