ADDITIONAL RATES.
| For all Lime, Lime-stone, Ironstone, Flint, and other Stone; all Bricks, Tiles, Slate, Coal and Manure | ½d per Ton, per Mile. |
| All other Goods, Wares, Merchandize and Things whatsoever | ½d ditto. ditto. |
The proprietors of the Warwick and Braunston Canal having obtained legal sanction for varying the course of a certain part of that canal, to unite with the Oxford Canal at Napton instead of Braunston, which might injure the Oxford Canal Company, it was inserted in a clause of their act that the Oxford Company should claim the following
TONNAGE RATES.
| For all Coal navigated out of the said intended Canal into the said Oxford Canal, and along the same into the Grand Junction Canal | 2s 9d per Ton. |
| For all Goods, Wares and Merchandize, except Coals, Lime, Lime-stone and Manure, which shall be bone fide navigated out of said intended Canal into said Oxford Canal, and along the same into the said Grand Junction Canal, or vice versa | 4s 4d ditto. |
And in proportion for a less Quantity than One Ton.
Inasmuch as, by the first act for making the Grand Junction Canal, certain rates were secured and granted to the Oxford Canal, of which, if the annual receipts did not amount respectively to £5,000 and £10,000, the Grand Junction were to make good the deficiency, it is by this act provided, that the rates or dues then granted to the Oxford Canal Company, shall now be deemed part of the aforesaid sums, and the Company of the Oxford Canal may lessen their rates, but not so as to lessen the said sums, without consent of the Grand Junction Company; and in case the reduction should lessen the said sums, then the said Oxford Canal Company shall again advance the same, if requested by the Grand Junction Canal Company.
And the Grand Junction Canal Company, to obviate any injury from the intended deviation, are empowered to collect, on coal and all other goods and things except lime and limestone, passing from or out of said Warwick and Napton Canal, as it is now called, into the Oxford Canal, and navigated on the same, and vice versa, an additional rate of sixpence per ton, and so on, in proportion, for less quantities. And for collecting the same, and preventing evasion, the Grand Junction are authorized to cause a bar or stop-gate, with a toll-house, to be placed upon or across the said
