"Navigation," and empowers them to raise amongst themselves, for the purposes of the act, the sum of £100,000, in one thousand shares of £100 each, and if necessary, a further sum of £30,000.
The course prescribed by this act was soon found to be inconvenient, the company of proprietors therefore obtained a second act of parliament in 1796, entitled,' An Act for authorizing the Company of Proprietors of time Warwick and Braunston Canal Navigation to vary the Course of a certain Part of the said Canal, and for amending and altering the Act made in the Thirty-fourth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty for making the said Canal,' which authorized them to adopt the present line of the canal, and change the name of the company to that of "The Company of Proprietors of the Warwick and Napton Navigation ;" and to take the following
TONNAGE RATES.
| For all Coal and other Goods navigated less than Six Miles, and passing any Lock or Locks | 1s 0d per Ton. |
| From Six and not exceeding Eight Miles | 0s 2d ditto, per Mile. |
| From Eight and not exceeding Thirteen Miles, for the first Eight Miles | 0s 2d ditto. ditto. |
| After the Eighth Mile | 0s 1d ditto. ditto. |
| For all Coal or other Goods navigated along the whole of the Canal or any part thereof more than Thirteen Miles | 0s 1½d ditto. ditto. |
| If such Goods do not pass a Lock | 0s 1½d ditto. ditto. |
Lime and Lime-stone only half the said Tonnage.
Fractions of a Mile to be taken as a Mile, and of a Quarter of a Ton as a Quarter.
Only Two-pence per Ton per Mile to be taken on Goods carried on this Canal, not exceeding Five Miles from the Warwick and Birmingham Navigation; nor more than Three Half-pence per Ton per Mile for Free-stone, nor any Tonnage on empty Boats passing for the purpose of fetching Free-stone, or Boats laden with Manure for the Lands of Persons whose Ground has been taken for the Canal.
The first act of parliament contained certain clauses of tonnage rates in favour of the Oxford Canal Company, which by this act are repealed, and in lieu thereof, it is enacted :-
"That time proprietors of the Oxford Canal shall receive, over and above the rate of tonnage they are entitled to, on coal, goods, &c. passing on their canal by virtue of any act now in force, the following
RATES.
| For all Coals navigated out of this Canal into the Oxford Canal (except such as shall be navigated into the Grand Junction Canal) | 3s 4d per Ton. |
| For all Goods navigated out of this Canal into the Oxford Canal, or out of the Oxford into this Canal, except such as shall be navigated into or out of the Grand Junction Canal, or from the Coventry Canal, or from any intermediate Place between the said Coventry Canal and this Canal, and also except Lime, Lime-stone and Manure | 5s 2½d ditto. |
