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Small parcels not exceeding five hundred pounds in weight are to be charged according to rates to be determined by the company. The act also empowers them to charge the following

WHARFAGE, WAREHOUSING AND CRANAGE RATES.

For all Coals, Culm, Lime-stone and other Minerals, Timber, Stone, Clay, Bricks, Tiles, Slates, Goods, Merchandise or other Things, landed on the Company's Wharfs and not continuing thereon more than Seventy-two Hours 0s 1d per Ton.
For ditto above that Time in addition for Wharfage, for the first Week 0s 1d ditto.
For ditto for Warehousing, for the first Week 0s 6d ditto.

And for every succeeding Week the same Sums respectively for Wharfage and Warehousing.

For Cranage of any Weight not exceeding Two Tons at one Lift 0s 6d per Ton.
For Cranage of Two Tons and less than Three Tons at one Lift 1s 0d ditto.
For Cranage of three Tons and less than Four Tons at one Lift 1s 6d ditto.

And so on, advancing Sixpence per Ton on each additional Weight of One Ton, raised at one single Lift.

If the railway shall cross the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the same shall be made under the direction of that company's engineer, and the engines of this company shall by no means interrupt those of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway; and if the Sankey Brook Canal Company shall, under the powers of their own act, determine on making a canal from their present works to Warrington, so as to cross this railway, either under or over, the point and mode of such crossing shall be determined by two engineers appointed, one by each company, whose opinion shall, if necessary, be subject to the decision of a third engineer, appointed umpire between them.

This railway commences on the south side of the railway between Liverpool and Manchester, at Wargrave Lane, in Newton-within-Mackerfield, in the county palatine of Lancaster, and proceeds to Dallum Lane, in Warrington; with a collateral branch, commencing at the intersection of Jockey Lane and Dallum Lane in Warrington, to Cockhedge Field, in the said township of Warrington; and a second collateral branch commencing at the said intersection of Jockey Lane and Dallurn Lane, and terminating on the north side of the turnpike-road from Liverpool to Warrington, opposite Bankey or Bank Quay, all in the said county palatine of Lancaster. The length of the main line is about four miles and a quarter, and of the two branches little more than a mile. The line proceeds from Warrington, and is directly north, to Newton.