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 of Stafford, to communicate with the Birmingham and Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, at or near the town of Wolverhampton, in the said county; and also, certain collateral Cuts therein described, from the said Canal,'  the following tonnage rates are secured to the proprietors of the Birmingham Canal

TONNAGE RATES.
The Warwick and Birmingham Canal Act, of 33rd George III. enables the proprietors to connect their navigation with the Digbeth Branch of the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, upon payment to the latter company of the following tonnage rates, in lieu of dues, between Farmer's Bridge and the said communication.

TONNAGE RATES.
The Birmingham Canal Navigations, connected as they are with the Coventry, the Grand Trunk, the Worcester and Birmingham, the Dudley, the Warwick and Birmingham, the Wyrley and Essington, the Staffordshire and Worcestershire, and the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canals, present a very important feature in the map of inland navigation, as by these, a communication is opened with the most important towns in England and Wales.

The populous towns of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Bilstone, Wednesbury and Walsall, are on its banks, and it affords the greatest facilities to the transit of the produce of the most valuable mineral district in the world. Some estimate of the trade upon this navigation may be formed by the following amount of tonnage received by the company from the years 1818 to 1823, inclusive.