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It was obtained by a company of two hundred and eleven persons, amongst whom were the Duke of Leeds, Earl Fitzwilliam, Sir L. Copley, Sir G. Wombwell, and Sir F. Wood, Baronets, who were incorporated by the name of "The Dearne and Dove Canal Company," and authorized to raise among themselves, for the purposes of this act, the sum of £60,000, in six hundred shares of £100 each, and, if necessary, a further sum of £30,000, or by mortgage, on assignment of the undertaking as a security.

TONNAGE RATES.

Wheat, Shelling, Beans, Peas, Vetches, and Lentils, Rape, Line, Coal, and Mustard Seed; Apples, Pears, Onions, and Potatoes 4d per Quarter of Eight Winchester Bushels. An so in Proportion for any shorter Distance than One Mile.
Barley 3d ditto, ditto.
Oats and Malt 2½d ditto, ditto.
Wool, Dried Pelts, or Spetches 4d per Pack, or Sheet, of 312lbs Avoirdupois.
Coal, Slack, Cinders, Culm, Charcoal, and Lime 1d per Ton, per Mile.
Limestone Ÿd ditto, ditto.
If any Boat, carrying up Lime, or Limestone, return with Coal or any other Article to the Amount of Thirty Tons, the Tonnage on the Lime shall be only Ÿd ditto, ditto.
And on the Limestone ½d ditto, ditto.
Stone, Iron-stone, Flag Paving-stone, and Slate 1d ditto. ditto.
If any Boats, carrying up the last-mentioned Articles, shall return laden with any other Article to the Amount of Thirty Tons, then they shall be charged only Ÿd ditto, ditto.
Cast Metal Goods and Bar-iron 2d ditto. ditto.
Old or Pig-iron 1d per Ton.
English Oak,Timber, and Plank 1½ per Ton of 40 Cubic Feet per Mile.
Elm, Ash, and other English Timber 1d per Ton of 50 Cubic Feet.
Fir, and other Kinds of Foreign Timber ½d per Ton of 50 Cubic Feet, per Mile.
Deals and Battens, equal to Thirty Deals of Twelve Feet in Length, Three Inches Thick, and from Nine to Twelve Inches Broad 1½d per Ton, per Mile.
Groceries, Linen and Woollen Yarn, Cotton, Flax, Hemp, Manufactured Goods, and any other Wares and Merchandize 2d ditto, ditto.

Vessels passing any one of the Locks of this Navigation shall pay for Six Miles, and the lading shall be charged as not less than Thirty Tons; and in case the lading be of Articles charged of various Rates, any Quantity that it is wanting of Thirty Tons shall be charged at the highest Rates; but if such Boat be going up, and return with Coal or other Matters, and shall pay the Rates for Thirty Tons or upwards in coming down, then such lading shall be charged Rates according to the Quantity and Distance carried.

Fractions of a Mile to be charged as a whole Mile, and Fractions of a Ton, according to the Number of Quarters.

As it was apprehended that the Barnsley Canal would he made to communicate with this Navigation, it was enacted that any light Vessel going up from Swinton, and through a Junction Lock, (directed to be made within One Hundred and Fifty Yards,) into the proposed Barnsley Canal, and not return loaded the same Way, shall pay the full Rates of Three-halfpence per Ton, per Mile, upon Thirty Tons; and if down the Canal light, and return loaded, the same Rates as before specified.