per acre in others is ordered to be collected. Towing-paths are to be made and maintained by the said commissioners. They are also to charge as
BANKAGE RATES.
For every Horse, Mule, Ass or other Beast | 0s 3d each. |
For every Drove of Neat Cattle | 1s 0d per Score. |
For every Drove of Calves, Sheep or Lambs, Hogs or Pigs | 0s 8d ditto. |
The following are directed to be paid by all vessels and rafts navigated on the Ouse between Littleport Bridge and Upware Sluice, or on the Larke between Littleport Bridge and Prick Willow, as
TONNAGE RATES.
For Coals or Cinders | 0s 6d per Chaldron. |
For Deal Boards or Battens | 3s 0d per Hundred. |
For Poles | 1s 6d ditto. |
For Timber | 0s 8d per Load or Ton. |
For Wheat, Beans, Peas or Rye | 1s 0d per Last. |
For Oats, Barley or Malt | 1s 0d ditto. |
For Bricks and Tiles | 0s 4d per Thousand. |
For Sedge | 0s 1d per Hundred. |
For Stones or Pebbles | 0s 8d per Ton. |
For Turves | 0s 1d per Thousand. |
For Hay | 0s 4d per Load or 20 Cwt. |
For Seeds | 1s 6d per Last. |
For Clay or Sand | 0s 4d per Ton. |
For Salt Fish | 0s 8d per Cwt. |
For Iron or Lead | 1s 6d per Ton. |
For Salt | 0s 8d ditto. |
For Wine or Cider | 3s 0d per Tun. |
For Oil, Vinegar, Pitch, Tar or Soap | 0s 8d per Ton. |
For Butter or Cheese | 0s 8d ditto. |
For Faggots or Billets | 0s 1d per Hundred. |
For Hops | 0s 4d per Pocket. |
For Pales, Barrel or Hogshead Staves | 0s 1d per Hundred. |
For Passage Boats | 0s 1d each Passenger. |
For all other Goods, Wares or Mercbandize whatsoever, not herein-before mentioned | 0s 8d per Ton. |
For every Barge, Lighter, Vessel or Boat, either empty or carrying less than a Ton, and whether haled or not | 0s 2d each. |
Commissioners may borrow money on mortgage of the rates. From the end of the cut to Littleport, this river is joined by the Little Ouse at Brandon Bridge, and at Creek Ferry by the Wissey or Stoke River, and proceeding to Denver Sluice where the New Bedford River connects with it. Leaving Downham Market to the east it passes on to Wiggen Hall, where that immense cut lately finished by Sir Edward Banks, called the Eau Brink Cut, conducts the waters down to Lynn. The Eau Brink Cut is 300 feet wide and nearly three miles long; the ordinary tides rise 15 feet.