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WAREHOUSING RATES.

For every Package not exceeding 56lbs. Weight 2d per Ton. Which does not lay on the Quay or Wharf, or remain in the Warehouses more than Six Days.
Ditto, above 300lbs. and not exceeding 600lbs 4d ditto.
Ditto exceeding l000lbs 6d ditto.
If longer than the above Time, then for Wharfage 1d ditto. For the next Seven Days.
And for Warehousing 2d ditto.

And the like Sum of One Penny and Two-pence, respectively, per Ton, for every further Seven Days so remaining on Wharf or in Warehouse.

In 1827, the company again applied to parliament and obtained an act, entitled, An Act to authorize the Company of Proprietors of the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway, to vary the Line of the Railway, to raise a further Sum of Money for completing their Works, and to alter and enlarge the Powers of the Act passed for making and maintaining the said Railway, in the preamble of which it is stated, that this measure was necessary in consequence of the unexpected cost of a tunnel, and the insufficiency of the sum appropriated by the original estimate for the purchase of the land required. By this act power is given to alter the line of the railway, so that instead of terminating at St. Dunstan's, nearly three quarters of a mile from Canterbury, it now comes directly to the North Lane, adjoining the River Stour, on the north side of the city. The deviation line is three quarters of a mile in length, on one inclined plane, with 92 feet fall, and the estimate for making it amounts to £5,000. It is fifteen chains longer than the part abandoned, so that the total length of the line will be now six miles, two furlongs and eight chains. The company also obtained power to make two short branch railways or cart roads; one to St. Dunstan's Street, and the other across the Stour, to Pond Lane and St. Peter's Lane, in the city.

ADDITIONAL RATES,

To be taken for the Use of the Quays, &c. are granted by this Act, as follows:-

For all Goods, Wares and Merchandize, imported or exported from the Piers, Wharfs, Landing Places, Quays, and other Works 0s 1d per Cwt.
For any Parcel less than One Hundred Weight 0s ½d
For every Person landed upon or embarked from the said Piers 1s 0d

The Commissioners for Paving and Lighting the City of Canterbury have, under the Powers of an Act of the 27th George III, a Claim of One Shilling per Chaldron or Ton on all Coke, Coal, or Cinders brought into or within Three Miles of the said City; a Clause is, therefore, inserted in this Act, securing to them the same Tonnage on all the ahove-mentioned Articles brought by means of this Railroad, to cease, however, when the Sum of £4,000, which was borrowed to carry the Act of the 27th George III. into Execution, is paid off.