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In consideration of the lockage water, which is derived from the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, by locking down from it, the proprietors of that canal are authorized to collect the following

TONNAGE RATES.
The last-mentioned rates are to be collected by the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal Company, at the expense of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Proprietors; and in order that no unnecessary waste of water may be made, the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal Company are required to construct on the sumit level, a regulation lock, consisting of four pairs of gates. The locks upon this navigation are 7 feet 6 inches in width, and 80 feet long.

The company had originally intended to make a branch from near the village of Cowley, to join the Donnington Wood, or Marquis of Stafford's Canal, at Pave Lane, which was subsequently abandoned. Its length was seven miles and three quarters, and level. The estimate for making it was made by Mr. W. A. Provis, under the direction of Mr. T. Telford, and amounted to the sum of £55,466, 17s. 1d. The estimate for the main line was also made by the same parties, and which amounted to the sum of £388,454, 1s. 6d.

In 1827, the company applied to parliament, and obtained another act, entitled,  'An Act to enable the Company of Proprietors of the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal Navigation, to alter the Line of the said Navigation, and to make certain Branches therefrom, in the counties of Stafford and Salop.' 

The deviations in the original line here contemplated are of little importance, as they consist merely of three alterations in the line between Connery Pool and Plardiwick, amounting, in length, to one mile and one thousand eight hundred and nineteen yards, while the parts abandoned are three hundred and forty-one yards longer; but this act gives power to make two branches from the