navigable communication between the Calder, at Horbury Pasture, and the Barnsley Canal, at Barugh Mill, the length of which would be six miles, and the estimate, amounting to £72,115, was made by the late Mr. Jessop, Mr. Elias Wright, and Mr. Gott, the engineers employed on the Barnsley Canal; but no part of this canal has ever been executed.
THE RATES OF TONNAGE ALLOWED UNDER THIS ACT.
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| Wheat, Shelling, Beans, Peas, Vetches and Lentils, Rape, Line, Cole and Mustard Seed, Apples, Pears, Onions and Potatoes | 6 | per Quarter for the whole Length. |
| Barley | 5 | ditto, ditto. |
| Oats and Malt | 4 | ditto, ditto. |
| Pack or Sheet of Wool, Dried Pelts or Spetches | 6 | per 312lbs. ditto. |
| Coal, Slack, Cinders, Culm, Charcoal and Lime | 1 | per Ton, per Mile. |
| Limestone | ¾ | ditto. ditto. |
| Stone, Iron-stone, Flag, Paving-stone and Slate | 1 | ditto, ditto. |
| Pig or Old Iron | 1½ | ditto. ditto. |
| Cast Metal Goods and Bar Iron | 2 | ditto, ditto. |
| English Oak, Timber and Planks | 1½ | per Forty Cubical Feet, per Mile. |
| Elm, Oak and other English Timber | 1½ | per Fifty Cubical Feet, per Mile. |
| Fir, and all other kinds of Foreign Timber | 1½ | ditto, ditto. |
| Deals and Battens, equal to Thirty Deals, of 12 feet long, 3 inches thick, and from 9 to 12 inches broad | 1½ | per Mile. |
| All other things not before enumerated | 2 | per Ton, per Mile. |
That Ten superficial Yards of Flag Paving-stone, from One Inch to Two Inches and three-quarters in Thickness, or Sixteen Cubical Feet of Stone, to be deemed a Ton.
The only railway belonging to this company, made under the authority of the before-mentioned act, is from Barnby Basin to Norcroft Bridge, near the Silkstone Collieries, and is one mile and a quarter in length.
TONNAGE RATES ON THE RAILWAY.
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| Coal and other Minerals | 3 per Ton, per Mile. |
From the preamble of a second act, passed in the 48th George III. and entitled, 'An Act for amending and enlarging the Powers of an Act of his present Majesty, for making and maintaining the Barnsley Canal Navigation, and certain Railways and other Roads to communicate therewith; and for increasing the Rates, Tolls, and Duties, thereby granted,' it appears that the company had expended the sum of £97,000, authorized to be raised under the preceding act, in the canal alone, and had incurred sundry debts; they, therefore, obtained power to raise the further sum of £43,200, by a call of £60 on every shareholder of £100 each,
