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entitled, An Act for extending the Dudley Canal to the Birmingham Canal, at or near Tipton Green, in the county of Stafford; and by which the Dudley Canal Company are empowered to incorporate a certain number of new subscribers, to enable them to raise the sum of £22,000, and an additional £5,000, if necessary, for the purpose of carrying into execution the works proposed; and the following are the additional rates allowed to be taken on this canal.

ADDITIONAL TONNAGE RATES.

Coal, Coke, and Iron-stone, which shall have paid Tonnage to the Birmingham Canal 3d per Ton.
For the same Articles, for which no Rates shall have been paid to the said Canal, and which shall pass through any part of the Dudley Tunnel 3d ditto.
For the same Articles which pass between the South End of the Tunnel and the present Dudley Canal 3d ditto.
For the same Goods got or raised within a Mile of the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, and which shall pass into the said Birmingham Canal ½d ditto.
Lime and Lime-stone which shall pass out of the South End of the Tunnel 4½ d ditto.
For the same which shall pass into the Birmingham Canal ½d ditto.
For all Stone, Timber, and other Goods 6d ditto.

The original shares in the Dudley Canal were sixty-five; and they may, by this act, be increased to one hundred and thirty.

In consideration of the permission granted to the Dudley Canal to connect with the Birmingham Canal, the proprietors of the last-mentioned navigation have had secured to them certain tonnage rates; for particulars of which, see Birmingham Canal Navigation, [PNRC0079.htm#PNRC068 p. 68].

By another act which received the royal sanction on the 7th of May, 1790, entitled., An Act for effectually carrying into Execution Two Acts passed in the Sixteenth and Twenty-fifth Years of the Reign of his present Majesty, for making and maintaining a navigable Canal from the Stourbridge Navigation to the Birmingham and Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Navigation, in the counties of Worcester and Stafford, the company are authorized to raise among themselves, for the purposes set forth in the title of the act, the sum of £10,100, to be divided into new shares. They may also, if necessary, borrow the further sum of £10,000, on mortgage of the undertaking.

The act of the 33rd George III. enabling the Dudley Canal Company to connect their navigation with the Worcester and