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Birmingham Canal, received the royal assent on the 17th June, 1793; it is entitled, An Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal from the Dudley Canal, in the county of Worcester, to the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, now making at or near Selly Oak, in the said county; and also certain collateral Cuts to communicate therewith. The new subscribers to this extension are incorporated and made part of the Dudley Canal Company, who are hereby empowered to raise £90,000, in nine hundred shares of £100 each, and an additional sum of £40,000, if necessary.
TONNAGE RATES.
| Coal or Coke passing through the Lapal Tunnel, towards the Birmingham and Worcester Canal, but which shall not pass along the last-mentioned Canal, towards Birmingham, nor have paid any of the Rates or Duties payable to them under the Act of the 25th of his present Majesty | 2s 0d per Ton. |
| For the same Articles which shall have passed in the Direction above-mentioned, and which have paid any of the Rates and Dues under the said Act of 25th George III | 1s 9d ditto. |
| For all Coal and Coke conveyed in the Direction above-described, and which shall have passed towards the Town of Birmingham, along that part of the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, and none other, nor have paid any of the Duties under the Act above recited | 2s 0d ditto. |
| For the same Articles passing in the above Direction towards Birmingham, and which shall have paid the Dues authorized to be demanded under the Act above-mentioned | 1s 9d ditto. |
| Coal, Coke, and Iron-stone carried between the present Dudley Canal and the Lapel Tunnel, and which shall not pass into or through the Tunnel, or into the present Dudley Canal | 0s 2d per Ton, per Mile. |
| The above Articles carried between the Lapal Tunnel, and which shall pass out of this Canal, and into the present Dudley Canal, without having passed into or out of the said Tunnel | 0s 6d per Ton. |
| For all Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, (except Coal, Coke, Lime, and Lime-stone,) which shalt pass into or through Lapel Tunnel, and which shall not have paid any of the Duties liable under the Act of 25th George III. | 2s 0d ditto. |
| For the above Articles which shall pass into or through) the Tunnel above-mentioned, and which shall have paid the Charges under the above-recited Act | 1s 6d ditto. |
| For all Goods, Wares, and other Merchandize (except Coal, Coke, Iron-stone, Lime and Lime-stone,) carried between the present Dudley Canal and Lapal Tunnel, without passing into or through such Tunnel | 0s 2d per Ton, per Mile. |
| For all Goods, Wares, Merchandise, Lime, Lime-stone, and other Commodities, carried between the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, and the East End of Lapal Tunnel, and which shall not have passed through such Tunnel | 0s 3d per Ton. |
| Lime and Lime-stone, which shall have paid the Tonnage imposed by the Act of 25th George III. upon Lime and Lime-stone, passing out of the South End of the Dudley Tunnel, and which shall not pass through the Gosty Hill Tunnel | 0s 1d per Ton, per Mile. |
