should be charged according to their real Weight. One Hundred and Twelve Pounds Avoirdupois, being deemed and taken for One Hundred Weight with respect to all Timber and other Goods whatever.
By this act it is provided, that a certain part of the money to be raised by its authority shall be appropriated solely to the making and completing of a collateral branch from the canal at Gayton, to join the Nen Navigation at Northampton, and that such collateral branch should be completed on or before the 25th March, 1805, for all purposes stated in the act.
Parliamentary assistance was again sought in the year 1805, when another act was obtained, entitled, An Act for altering, amending, and enlarging the Powers of certain Acts for making and maintaining the Grand Junction Canal. By this act the company, in addition to their other charges, are enabled to demand the following
TONNAGE RATES.
| For all Goods, Wares, Merchandize, and Things navigated and conveyed on or through the said Canal and collateral Cuts, or any Part of them, excepting Timber, Coal, Coke, Lime, Lime-stone, Flints, Ashes, Breeze, Manure, Clay, Bricks, Tiles, Slate, Stone, Fuller's-earth, Iron-stone, Pig-iron, Bar, Rolled and Rod Iron, Nails, all Articles of Cast Iron, Pig-lead, and every Article of Wrought Iron, not before specifled, provided such Wrought Iron Articles shall exceed the Weight of Fifty-six Pounds | ½d per Ton, per Mile. |
No Tonnage, however, is to be charged in Addition for any Goods, Merchandize, or Things conveyed along or over the Railroad or collateral Communication, or any Part thereof, leading from the said Canal to join the River Nice or Nen, at or near the Town of Northampton, so long as the said Railroad or any Part of the same, should be made use of as a collateral Communication for the Conveyance of Goods, until the said Company shall have completed the Water Communication for the whole Length.
This Act further allows an additional Rate of Sixpence per Ton on all Goods, &c. conveyed through any Lock on the Canal and its collateral Cuts, or any of them, except any Lock between Brentford Bridge and the Thames, a less Distance than Eight Miles, or paying for a Distance of Eight Miles; and it is further provided, that the additional Rate of Sixpence per Ton shall not be paid by Owners and Occupiers of certain Brick Fields in the Parish of lsleworth, on the side of the Canal and Towing-path there, for Bricks or Tiles manufactured there, or for the Coals, Ashes, and Breeze, Sand, &c. used in making them.
The Clause of the first Act, regarding the Conveyance of Timber and Stores for his Majesty's Service is repealed; and the Company are empowered to demand Rates for these as for all other Goods, subject, however, to a drawback of the whole Amount of each Year, provided the Tonnage does not exceed One Thousand Tons; but if more, the drawback shall only be demanded for such Articles, amounting to One Thousand Tons, as shall have been first navigated on the Canal in the preceding Year. By another Act of the same Year, Has, Fifty Thousand Tons of Coal are allowed to be conveyed for One Year, from 1st August, 1805, on the said Canal to London, paying a Rate of 10s. 9Ÿd. per Ton.
