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TONNAGE RATES.
Fractions to be taken as for a Quarter of a Ton and as for a Quarter of a Mile.

The proprietors are further empowered to collect a pontage, at the proposed bridge over the Tweed, for carriages, foot passengers, &amp;c. but as these are without the limits of our publication, we omit them.

This railway was calculated to be of great advantage to the country through which it passed, but it has been abandoned by its original promoters, and though the act does not limit the company to any given time for the execution of the works, yet it is thought that it will never be completed under its provisions. 

BEVERLEY BECK.
13 George I. Cap. 4, Royal Assent 24th March, 1726.

18 George II. Cap. 13, Royal Assent 19th March, 1744.

THIS canal, or creek, (called Beverley Beck), commences from the navigable River Hull, nearly opposite the village of Weel, in Holderness, and extends to the town of Beverley. Though the first act of parliament, relating to this creek, bears a very early date, yet it had long before been used as a navigation, and kept in repair by the corporation of Beverley, out of the funds of the town; but as these were insufficient for the proper maintenance of it as a navigation, an act was obtained by the mayor, aldermen, and capital burgesses of Beverley, in the 13th George I. entitled,  'An Act for cleansing,, deepening, and widening a Creek, called Beverley Beck, running into the River Hull, and for repairing the Staiths, near the said Beck; and for amending the Roads leading from the said River, to the town of Beverley, in the East Riding of the county of York, and for cleansing the