of four miles of canal from the said basin to the Camberwell Road, and that they had paid off part of the mortgage debt due from them, the act empowers them to make a collateral cut, from the canal opposite the Commercial Docks in Rotherhithe, along the east side of the canal, and parallel thereto, to communicate with the basin aforesaid, at the lower end thereof, near the Thames; whereby vessels, using the canal or its cuts, might go into the Thames without passing through the basin; for this purpose, and that of liquidating their debts, they are empowered to raise no less a sum than £150,000, in addition to the money already subscribed, in shares of £100 each, or by promissory notes, or by mortgage, or by annuities. By this act also, certain privileges are secured to the Croydon Canal Company, the Commercial Dock Company, the Kent Water Works' Company, and the city of London. Some of the former tolls are repealed, and the following is declared to be the scale of the future tonnage and dockage rates.
TONNAGE AND DOCKAGE RATES.
| Description of Goods, &c. | . | Rent per Quarter. |
| Dockage on all light Vessels on entering the Basin, per Register, Ton | £0 0s 6d | . |
| Ditto, for the Privilege of receiving or discharging a Cargo additional, per Register Ton | £0 0s 6d | . |
| For which Charges, Vessels may continue in the Basin as follows, viz. | . | . |
| Vessels of from Thirty Tons to One Hundred Tons, Ten Days. | . | . |
| Ditto, from One Hundred Tons to One Hundred and Fifty Tons, Fourteen Days. | . | . |
| Ditto, from One Hundred and Fifty Tons to Two Hundred Tons, Eighteen Days. | . | . |
| Ditto, from Two Hundred Tons to Two Hundred and Fifty Tons, Twenty-one Days. | . | . |
| Ditto, from Two Hundred and Fifty Tons to Three Hundred Tons, Twenty-four Days. | . | . |
| Ditto, from Three Hundred Tons to Three Hundred and Fifty Tons, Twenty-seven Days. | . | . |
| Ditto, from Three Hundred and Fifty Tons to Four Hundred Tons, Thirty Days. | . | . |
| After which Time all Vessels may be charged a Weekly Rate as follows, viz. | . | . |
| From Thirty Tons to One Hundred Tons | £0 8s 0d | . |
| From One Hundred ditto to One Hundred and Fifty ditto | £0 10s 0d | . |
| From One Hundred and Fifty ditto to Two Hundred ditto | £0 12s 0d | . |
| From Two Hundred ditto to Two Hundred and Fifty ditto | £0 14s 0d | . |
| From Two Hundred and Fifty ditto to Three Hundred ditto | £0 16s 0d | . |
| From Three Hundred ditto to Three Hundred and Fifty ditto | £0 18s 0d | . |
