making navigable the River Dun, in the county of York, and for the better perfecting and maintaining the said Navigation, and for uniting the several Proprietors thereof into one Company.
It was accordingly divided into one hundred and fifty shares, being at the rate of £115 per share on the amount expended. The proprietors of the upper part consisted of forty-nine persons, besides the cutlers' company; and the ownership of the lower part was vested in the corporation of Doncaster, and twenty other persons. These several parties are therefore incorporated in one company, by the name of "The Company of Proprietors of the Navigation of the River Dun ;" and the several tonnage rates, and other duties, hitherto received by either party, is hereafter to form one fund, (except the duty of one penny a fodder for lead, and two-pence a ton for other goods and merchandize, except lime and limestone to be converted into lime,) which the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Doncaster, are empowered to take, by virtue of the act of 12th of George I. in lieu of an ancient toll. Of the one hundred and fifty shares of which the navigation consists, ten are, by this act, appropriated to the corporation of Doncaster, six to the cutlers' company, ten to seven persons as trustees to the town of Sheffield, and the remainder among private individuals.
ADDITIONAL TONNAGE RATES.
| For any Goods or Merchandize which shall be landed or loaded from off or upon any Wharf or Place on the South Side of the River Dun, or Cheswould, between Holmstile and Fryers Bridge, which shall not pass, or shall not have passed, the Lock at Doncaster Mill | 2d per Ton, of 2,500 lbs. |
The navigation is directed to be made to the farthest part of the township of Tinsley, westward, for vessels of twenty tons burthen; and if not done within the space of two years from the passing of this act, the cutlers' company are authorized to do it at their own expense, and to collect, for their own use, all the duties which may arise upon any part of the river between Mexbrough and Tinsley. The navigation company have, by this act, jurisdiction only as far down the river as Wilsick House; below that place to New Bridge it is subject to the commissioners of the level of Hatfield Chase; and the New or Dutch River, to the mayor and commonalty of the city of York, as conservators of the Ouze.
