TONNAGE RATES.
| For all Coal navigated from the Leicester Navigation to Eye Kettleby, Syannby or Melton Mowbray, and not so far as the Fifth Lock on the Oakham Canal | 1s 0d per Ton. |
| For all Coal navigated from the Leicester Navigation to the said Fifth Lock on the Oakham Canal | 0s 6d ditto. |
| For ditto navigated upon any Part of the said Navigation, and not navigated so far as Eye Kettleby, Sysonby or Melton Mowbray | 0s 1d ditto, per Mile. |
| For all Iron, Timber and other Goods, Wares and Merchandize (except as hereinafter is excepted) navigated from the Leicester Navigation to Eye Kettleby, Sysonby or Melton Mowbray and not carried so far as the maid Fifth Lock on the Oakham Canal | 1s 6d ditto. |
| For ditto (except as hereinafter excepted) navigated from the Oakham Canal, Melton Mowbray, Sysonby or Eye Kettleby, to the Leicester Navigation | 1s 6d ditto. |
| For ditto (except as hereinafter excepted) navigated more than Five Miles upon the said Navigation, and afterwards carried to the said Fifth Lock on the Oakham Canal | 0s 9d ditto. |
| For ditto (except as hereinafter excepted) navigated upon any Part of the said Navigation, and not carried so far as from the Leicester Navigation to Eye Kettleby, Sysonby or Melton Mowbray, or not so far as from the Oakham Canal, Melton Mowbray, Sysonby or Rye Kettleby, to the Leicester Navigation | 0s 1½d ditto. ditto. |
For all Lime, Lime-stone and Stones to be used for Building, and Materials for paving and repairing Roads, Half of the Rates, Tolls and Duties hereinbefore authorized to be taken an Coals.
EXEMPTIONS.
No additional Tonnage Rates or Duties whatever shall be taken on any Goods, Wares or Merchandize, which shall pass from the Oakham Canal and shall be carried no further than the Public Basin at Melton Mowbray, nor on any Timber, Stone, Lime or other Material for the use of the Oakham Canal.
The length of this navigation, from its junction with the Leicester in Turnwater Meadow, to Melton, is eleven miles, in a north-west direction; the design of executing it is the same which induced the proprietors of the Leicester Navigation to undertake that work, and the benefits accruing to the various districts on the line of the work itself, and its communications, are of very considerable importance.
WYE AND LUGG RIVERS.
14 Char. II. C. 14, R. A. l9th May, 1662.
7 & 8 Wil. III. C. 14, R. A. 7th March, 1695.
13 Geo. I. C. 34, R. A. 15th May, 1727.
49 Geo. III. C. 78, R. A. 20th May, 1809.
THIS delightful river has, like the Severn, its source in the mountains of Plynlimmon, which are at an elevation of 2,463 feet above the level of the sea, and separate the counties of Cardigan
