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TONNAGE RATES CONTINUED.
Fifty Feet of round or Forty Feet of square Oak, Ash or Elm Timber, and Fifty Feet of Fir or Deal, Balk, Poplar, and other Wood, shall be deemed a Ton; and One Hundred and Twenty Pounds shall be deemed a Hundred Weight, for the purposes of this Act.

Lime and Limestone, one-third of the above Rates.

EXEMPTION FROM TOLL.
Paving-stones, Gravel, Sand and Road Materials, (Limestone excepted) Dung, Soil, Marl, and all sorts of Manure, for the Improvement of Lands belonging to Persons whose Land has been taken for the use of the Canal, provided the same does not pass through any Lock, but at the time when the Water is running over the Lock Weirs.

In addition to these Rates, the Company are empowered to collect the Sum of One Penny per Ton for all Coal and Coke, which shall pass through the First Lock, from Farmer's Bridge, to be erected on this Canal, in consideration of repaying a Sum of Money, not exceeding £3,600, to the Subscribers to a Canal, which had been proposed to be made between the Wednesbury Coal Fields and the town of Birmingham, and from thence to Fazeley, as a reimbursement of Expenses they had been put to in an Application to Parliament, and this Toll is to exist until the Sum and Interest is paid off.

No Boats under Twenty Tons to pass a Lock without leave, unless there is not sufficient Water for greater Tonnage.

The proprietors have power to take water, for the supply of the canal, from mines situate within one thousand yards of the canal, provided that the produce of such mines be carried along any part of the canal.

In this act is recited the substance of an agreement entered into at a meeting of delegates from the Coventry, Oxford, Grand Trunk, and Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Companies, held the year preceding the passing of this act, by which the Grand Trunk Canal Company, and the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Company, agree to execute that part of the line of the Coventry Canal lying between Fazeley and Fradley Heath, at the joint expense of the two parties; the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Company allowing to the Grand Trunk Canal Company £500, for superintending and directing the execution of the same; and it was further agreed, that the tolls arising upon that half part of the said canal, commencing at Fazeley, should belong to the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Company, and the other half, terminating at Fradley, to the Grand Trunk or Trent and Mersey Canal Company.