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TONNAGE RATES.

For Lime to be used as Manure, Dung, Compost or other Manure, and for Materials for the repair of Roads 1d per Ton, per Mile.
For Coal, Lime, Lime-stone to be used otherwise than as Manure, Coke, Culm, Charcoal, Cinders, Stone, Sand, Clay, Fuller's-earth, Building, Pitching and Paving-stones, Flags, Bricks, Tiles and Slates, Pig-lead, and Pig and Old Iron 1½d ditto. ditto.
For Sugar, Corn, Grain, Flour, Dye Woods, Timber, Staves, Deals, Lead, Bar-iron, and other Metals 2½d ditto. ditto.
For Cotton and other Wool, Hides, Drugs, Manufactured Goods and for all other Wares, Merchandise, Articles, Matters and Things 3d ditto. ditto.

Where the Rates do not amount to Sixpence per Ton, by reason of passing a short Distance only, the Proprietors have authority to demand it.

TOLLS.

For every Person passing in or upon any Carriage for any Distance not exceeding Five Miles 0s 6d.
For ditto not exceeding Ten Miles 1s 0d.
For ditto exceeding Ten Miles 1s 6d.
For every Horse, Mule, Ass or other Beast of Draught or Burthen, and for every Ox, Cow, Bull or Neat Cattle, carried in or upon such Carriage for any Distance not exceeding Five Miles 0s 9d.
For ditto not exceeding Ten Miles 1s 6d.
For ditto exceeding Ten Miles 2s 6d.
For every Calf, Sheep, Lamb or Pig carried on the same any Distance 0s 6d.

Fractions to be taken as for a Quarter of a Mile and Quarter of a Ton.

COMPANY'S CHARGE FOR CARRYING UPON THE RAILWAY, INCLUDING TONNAGE AND TOLLS.

For Lime, Lime-stone, Dung, Compost and other Manure, and for Materials for the repair of Roads, Stone, Sand, Clay, Building, Pitcthing and Paving-stones, Tiles, Slates, Timber, Staves and Deals 6s 0d per Ton.
For Sugar, Corn, Grain, Flour, Dye Woods, Lead, Iron and other Metals 7s 0d ditto.
For Cotton and other wool, Hides, Drugs, Groceries, and Manufactured Goods 8s 0d ditto.
For Hops, Tea, Wines, Spirits, Vitriol, Glass and other hazardous Goods 10s 6d ditto.

And for any Distance short of the whole Length of the Railway, a rateable Proportion of such several Sums, according to the Distance.

For Coal, Coke, Culm, Charcoal and Cinders 2½d per Ton, per Mile.

For Persons, Cattle and other Animals, such reasonable Charge as shall from Time to Time he determined by the Company.

Company not compelled to receive less for short Distances than 9d per Ton, per Mile.

For the Carriage of small Parcels not exceeding Five Hundred Pounds Weight, the Company have power to fix the Charge at any general Meeting.

For aseertaining the Weight of Tonnage, One Hundred and Twelve Pounds is deemed a Hundred Weight, and Twenty Hundred Weight a Ton; Fourteen Cubic Feet of Stone, Forty Cubic Feet of Oak, Mahogany, Beech and Ash, and Fifty Cubic Feet of all other Timber, shall be deemed a Ton Weight.