rates, there shall be demanded according to the following list, for goods, &c. conveyed on the canal from the Humber to and above the lock, called the Basin Lock, as in the first column of the list, and for all goods, &c. conveyed a less distance, as in the second column of the said list.
LIST OF TONNAGE RATES BEFORE REFERRED TO.
| For all Sugar, Molasses, Plums, Currants, Raisins and Figs | 4s 0d | 4d per Ton, per Mile. |
| For all Slate, Timber, Deals and Free-stone | 2s 8d | 3d ditto. ditto. |
| For every Chaldron of Coals of Forty-eight Bushels Imperial Measure | 2s 8d | 3d per Mile. |
| For every Forty Bushels of Cinders, Coke or Culm | 1s 4d | 1½d ditto. |
| For every Eighty Tods of Wool, Twenty-eight Pounds each Tod | 2s 8d | 3d ditto. |
| For every Thousand of Stock Bricks, Paving Bricks, Floor Bricks or Pantiles | 2s 8d | 3d ditto. |
| For every Thousand Common Bricks | 1s 4d | 1½d ditto. |
| For every Quarter of Rye Grass Seed and Hay Seed | 0s 2d | . |
| For every Four Quarters of ditto | . | 1d ditto. |
| For every Twelve Bunches of Plaster Laths | 0s 4d | . |
| For every Fifteen ditto | . | ½d ditto. |
| For every Quarter of Wheat, Beans, Peas, Rye, Lentils, Barley, Malt, Oats, Rapeseed or Linseed | 0s 6d | ½d ditto. |
| For all other Goods, Wares, &c. whatsoever | 2s 8d | 3d per Ton, per Mile. |
And so in Proportion for a greater or less Quantity than above.
if Goods remain on the Wharfs or in the Warehouses for more than Twenty-four Hours and not exceeding Six Days, the Company may charge the Owners Three-pence per Ton, over and above the Tonnage Rates for the same.
Provision is also made for keeping the water of the River Ludd at a certain level, and for protecting the low lands between Tetney Haven and Alvington Out Fen. After the debt charged upon the work shall have been paid off, the commissioners and their successors, named and appointed in the act, may invest any part of the surplus monies, not exceeding £3,000 in each year, in the Public Funds or Exchequer Bills, as a fund for repairs.
There are other clauses for the protection of private property, which being such as are usually inserted, it is needless here to enumerate.
This, as far as it extends, is an useful work, and highly beneficial to the town of Louth, and the adjoining district.
