obtained for this purpose, bearing date in 1792, is entitled, 'An Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal, from Kirkby Kendal in the county of Westmoreland, to West Houghton in the county palatine of Lancaster, and also a navigable Branch from the said intended Canal at or near Barwick, to or near Warton Cragg, and also another navigable Branch, from, at or near, Galemoss, by Chorley, to or near Duxbury in the said county palatine of Lancaster.' It incorporates the proprietors under the style of "The Company of Proprietors of the Lancaster Canal Navigation," and gives them power to cut the line as we have described to West Houghton, with branches from Barwick Hall to Warton Cragg, and from Galemoss in the parish of Crofton, to or near Duxbury in the parish of Standish. The part to West Houghton was rendered unnecessary as we before stated, and the Duxbury Branch has also been left unexeeuted.
By this act the proprietors were empowered to raise £414,100, in £100 shares, £60,000 thereof to be applied solely to complete the Westmoreland part of the canal, with a power of raising by further subscription amongst themselves, or by mortgage, the additional sum of £200,000, if required. This act also established the following rates.
TONNAGE AND WHARFAGE RATES.
| For Coals navigated on the Canal | 0s 1½d per Ton, per Mile. |
| For Lime-stone, Slate, Salt-ores, Salt-rock, Bricks, Stone, Flags, Iron-stone, Coal-sleek, Black-bass, Iron-Cinders, Gravel, Sand, Clay, Marl and Manure | 0s ½d ditto. ditto. |
| For Lime, Pig-iron, Cast-iron, and Bar-Iron | 0s 1d ditto. ditto. |
| For Timber, Dying-woods, and all other Goods, Wares, Merchandize and Conimodities not before-enumerated | 0s 2d ditto. ditto. |
| For Coals passing the Locks on the South Side of the River Ribble, if they do not pass more than Eighteen Miles North of Chorley on this Canal | 2s 3d per Ton. |
| For the Wharfage of Coal, Lime, Lime-stone, Clay, Iron, Iron-atone, Timber, Stone, Brick, Tiles, Slate or Gravel | 0s 1d ditto. |
| For all other Goods or Things whatever | 0s 3d ditto. |
Coal, Iron and Lime-stone may remain on tbe Wharfs Twenty-one Days; Timber, Clay, Lime, Iron-stone, Stone, Bricks, Tiles, Slate and Gravel, Thirty Days all other Goods Six Days; an additional Charge of one Penny per Ton for every Ten Days after this Period.
And so on in Proportion for more or lees than a Ton or a Mile.
Forty Feet of Round, or Fifty Feet of Square Oak, Ash or Elm Timber, and Fifty Feet of Fir or Deal, Balk, Poplar, Beech or Birch cut into Scantlings, and Forty Feet of Light Goods to be deemed One Ton.
