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 the Birmingham or the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, is more than 6 inches above the level of the other canal, the proprietors of such lowest canal shall pay to the other the sum of three shillings per every 4,000 cubic feet of water, expended in passing a vessel through the communication.

The Birmingham Canal Navigation Company are authorized by this act, in consideration of the amount of tolls they may be deprived of by consenting to the above communication, and the expense they will be put to in maintaining the locks at this junction, to receive the following tolls in addition to what they were before entitled to.

TONNAGE RATES.
And which Sum shall be in full Satisfaction for all Tolls payable between Farmer's Bridge and the said termination.

WHARFAGE RATES.
And this Sum shall be considered as part Payment of the Rates which the said Company are entitled to collect on this part of the Navigation.

The preamble of the act of 58th George III. entitled,  'An Act for altering, explaining and amending the several 'Acts of Parliament passed relating to the Birmingham Canal Navigations; and for improving the said Canal Navigations,'  states that the whole of the works authorized by the preceding acts have been executed and found of great utility.

In this act the company are empowered to contract with the owners and occupiers of coal mines and iron furnaces, to receive a gross annual sum for the conveyance of coal, coke, iron-stone, lime-stone and other raw material along the navigation, in lieu of the tonnage rates which the act authorizes them to demand,