TONNAGE RATES
For all Corn and other Grain, Hops, Timber and other Things, (except Coal, Coke, Iron, Iron-stone, Lime, Lime-stone, Rock-stone and other Minerals)
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2d per Ton, per Mile. |
For the above excepted Articles
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9d ditto. |
Boats of less than Twenty Tons passing any Lock to pay for Twenty Tons.
No Vessels to pass to or from this canal into the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, unless the Water in this Canal shall be at least Six Inches higher than that in the Birmingham and Fazeley, at the Junction of the Canals, and all surplus Water is to pass into the Birmingham Canal, the Proprietors of which may take the Water used in Lockage upon certain Parts of this Canal.
The proprietors of the Birmingham Canal may take, for all goods which are carried from this into their canal, the following
TONNAGE RATES.
| For all Goods which shall be landed within One Mile of the First Lock leading towards Autherly | 2d per Ton. |
| For ditto carried towards the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, and which shall pass through any Lock | 6d ditto. |
The act passed in 1794, entitled, 'An Act for extending the Wyrley and Essington Canal,' empowers the company to raise amongst theniselves, for the purpose of extending this canal as stated in the first part of this article, the sum of £75,000, and, if necessary, the further sum of £40,000, to be divided into shares of the same value as those in the first act, and authorizes their taking the following
TONNAGE RATES.
| For all Coal, (except Slack or Coal used for burning Lime-stone or Bricks) Iron and other Minerals, and except such Coal as has passed on the Wyrley and Essington Canal. and has paid Nine-pence per Ton, and shall not pass through any Lock | 0s 9d per Ton. |
| For such of the above Goods as shall have paid Nine-pence upon the Wyrley and Essington Canal or upon this Canal, and shall afterwards pass through the Lock at Cats Hill | 1s 3d ditto. |
| For such of the above Goods as shall be produced from Ground situated below the Lock near Cats Hill, and shall be conveyed between Cats Hill and Huddlesford | 2s 0d ditto. |
| For all Slack or inferior Coal for burning Lime-stone and Brick, Lime-stone and Lime, not passing a Lock | 0s 6d ditto. |
| For such as shall have passed on the Wyrley and Essington Canal, and shall pass a Lock | 0s 9d ditto. |
The act directs that the company shall purchase the shares of such proprietors as shall not be satisfied with the extension.
Mr. W. Pitt was the engineer employed on this canal, which is twenty-four miles in length from the Coventry Canal to its junction with the Birmingham Canal. In the first eight miles of
