550 C< 28. Anno decimo feptimo Ge org ii II. A. D. 1744* 6 Undertakers ; and as a Teftimonial thereof, a Pile was in the Year one thoufand feven hundred and 4 thirty-eight, drove and fixed in the faid River, near the faid ten Gate Sluice, on which the faid Hiight
- of nine Foot from the Bottom Floor or Apron of the faid Ten Gate Sluice, was marked and fet as and
' for the Standard Height of the Water at a moderate Spring Tide; and the fame has fince been com- 4 nionly called the Standard : And whereas the faid Undertakers finifhed the faid Undertaking, in making 4 the faid River navigable, according to the Intent and true Meaning of the faid recited Act of the fixth
- Year of his Majefty's Reign, before the twenty-fifth Day of March one thoufand feven hundred and
' forty, and have fince that Time been at very great Charges and Expences in preferving and keeping c the fame navigable, according to the Intent and true Meaning of the faid Act : And whereas the jfoint ' Stock of the faid Undertaking having been laid out as aforefaid, and proving infufficient for preferving ' and fecuring the Works of Navigation, and inclofing and improving the Sands and Grounds veiled by
- the faid Aft in the faid Undertakers, at a General Meeting of the faid Undertakers held the eleventh
4 Day of December one thoufand feven hundred and forty, they did agree, that the faid Joint Stock fliould 'be increafed to fifty-two thoufand Pounds, and that Application fliould be made to Parliament to incor- 14 Geo. 2. c. S. ' porate the faid Undertakers : And whereas by one other Act of Parliament made in the fourteenth Year
- of his Majefty's Reign, intituled, An Ail for incorporating the Undertaken of the Navigation of the River
4 Dee, It was amongll other Things enacted, That William Allix, and the feveral other Perfons therein ' named, Proprietors of the Undertaking for recovering and preferving the Navigation of the faid River ' Dee, and the Reprefentatives of fuch of the Subfcribers to the faid Indenture or Deeds-poll as were ' dead, their feveral and refpective Succeflbrs, Heirs, and Affigns, fliould be erected into one Company 4 for the Purpofes aforefaid, and be incorporated, by the Name of The Company of Proprietors of the Undtr- 4 taihtg for recovering and preferving the Navigation of the River Dee, and have perpetual Succeflion, and 4 a common Seal, and have Power to do all (uch Acts as the faid Nathaniel Kinderley, his Heirs, Affigns, ' or Nominees, might have done, or were impowered to do, by virtue of the faid Act of the fixth Year ' of his prefent Majefty ; and to take and receive all fuch Duties, Tonnage Dues, and Payments whatfo- ever, as the faid Nathaniel Kinderley, his Heirs, Affigns, or Nominees, were impowered to do by the ' faid Act ; and to embank, inclofe, improve, and apply to the Ufe of the faid Company, the White ' Sands, Soil, and Ground, and other Lands whatfoever, by the faid Act veiled in the faid Nathaniel 4 Kinderley, his Heirs, Affigns, and Nominees, upon the Terms and Conditions in the faid Act mention- 4 ed, in the fame Manner as the faid Nathaniel Kinderley, his Heirs, Affigns, or Nominees, might have 4 done ; and to execute all the Powers and Authorities veiled in the faid Nathaniel Kinderley, his Heirs, 4 Affigns, and Nominees, by the faid Act, and in fuch Manner as the faid Nathaniel Kinderley, his Heirs, 4 Affigns, or Nominees, might have executed the fame, by virtue of the faid Act, fubject to the Limi- 4 tations, Conditions, and Reftrictions in the faid Act mentioned ; as in and by the faid Act of Parlia- 4 ment of the fourteenth Year of his prefent Majefty will more fully appear ; And whereas the Tonnage 4 Rates and Duties, which by the faid Act of Parliament of the fixth Year of his prefent Majefty, are
- charged and made payable for all Goods, Wares, Merchandizes, and other Commodities, brought
4 into or loaded in the faid River, are by Experience found to be too high, and to be a Difcourage- 4 ment to the Trade of the faid City ; and the Mayor and Citizens of Chefter, and the Merchants and 4 Traders of Chefter have therefore requefted the faid Company of Proprietors of the Undertaking for 4 recovering and preferving the Navigation of the River Dee, to confent that the fame may be repealed,
- and that, in lieu thereof, other and eafier Tonnage or Keelage Duties may be appointed to be paid
4 to the faid Company which the faid Company have confented to; the doing whereof will be an En- 4 couragement to Trade, and it will be for the common Good of the faid Undertaking, that the faid 4 Acts of Parliament of the fixth and fourteenth Years of his prefent Majefty fliould be explained and
- amended in the feveral other Particulars hereafter mentioned ; and the faid Company, and the Mayor
4 and Citizens, and Merchants and Traders of Chejler, have accordingly applied for fuch an Act to be 4 palled: And whereas it is reafonable and juft:, that an Act of Parliament fliould pafs for the Purpofes 4 aforefaid ;' May it therefore pleafe your moft Excellent Majefty, at the humble Petition of the Com- pany of Proprietors of the Undertaking for recovering and preferving the Navigation of the River Dee, and of the Mayor and Citizens, and Merchants and Traders of the faid City of Chejler, That it may be enacted, &c. " Repeal of the former Rates of Tonnage. New Rates appointed, viz. For every Ship or VefTel coming 44 to or going from Chefter, or any other Place between Chejler and Parigate, on the North Side of the 44 River, and between Cbcjier and Flint on the South Side, to or from any Part of Great Britain or Wales, 44 between the faid City and Saint David's Head, or Car life, for every Ton 2d. and for every Ship, isV. 44 going to or coming from any Place between Saint David's Head and the Land's End, or beyond Car- 44 life to any Part in or on this Side the Shetlands, or to and from the Ifle of Man, for every Ton 3 d. •" and for every Ship, &c. going to or coming from Ireland, for every Ton d. and for every Ship, c?V, " going to or coming from any Place up the King's Channel, beyond the Land's End, or beyond the 44 Shetlands, for every Ton 4 d. and for every Ship, c3V. going to or coming from Norway, Denmark, " Holftein, Holland, Hamburgh, Flanders, or any Part of France without the Streights of Gibraltar, or the " Iflands of J erf ey or Guernjey, for every Ton 8 d. and for every Ship, &c. going to or coming from 44 Newfoundland, Greenland, Kujjia, and within the Baltick, Portugal, and Spain without the Streights, ii Canaries, Madeiras, Weftern Ifles, Azores, for every Ton 12 d. and for every Ship, &c. going to or t " coming from the Weft Indies, Virginia, or any other Part of America, Africa, Eurote, or Afia within " the Streights, Africa without the StreightSy or Cape de Verd Ifles, for every Ton 1 s. d, and for ever? I VeiFel
