'Collieries in the parish of Old and New Monkland, to the city of Glasgow.' By this act the proprietors are incorporated as "The Company of Proprietors of the Monkland Navigation," and are empowered to raise £10,000, in shares of £100 each; and in case this should prove inadequate to the completion of the work, then the further sum of £5,000 may be subscribed. The following are the authorized
TONNAGE AND WHARFAGE RATES.
| For all Coals, Stones, Timber, Dung, Fuel, and all other Goods, Wares and Merchandize whatever, conveyed on the Canal | 1d per Ton, per Mile. |
| For ditto on the Waggon Way | 1d ditto, ditto. |
| Limestone | ½d ditto, ditto. |
| Ironstone | ½d ditto, ditto. |
Gravel, Paving-stones and other Materials, except Limestone for repairs of Roads, and Dung, Soil, Marl and all Sorts of Manure for improving Lands and Grounds, are exempted from the Rates.
The Monkland Canal begins at Old Monkland Coal Works, about 290 feet above the level of the sea, and proceeds in a course nearly direct from east to west, to Glasgow, where it communicates with a branch of the Forth and Clyde Canal, 156½ feet above the sea level. In its course it receives the Monkland and Kirkintilloch, Garnkirk and Glasgow, and Airdrie Railroads, thus opening an easy way for the transit of coals and the import of other goods into the interior.
The intent of this work, as the preamble of the act declares, is to facilitate the conveyance of coal, &c. from the interior parts of the country, and to make a better communication between the collieries in the parishes of Old and New Monkland to the city of Glasgow, and it has answered the original intention and fully proved the utility of the work.
