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Barnsley Canal. 
This canal joins the river Calder below the town of 
"Wakefield, and pafles Crofton, Felkirk, and Royficr., and 
-atrives at Barnfley, whence it makes a bend to Barnby- 
bridge, near the town of Cawthorn, tlie length about four¬ 
teen miles. There are fevetal rail-ways to the canal from 
Barnfley., and others front Barnby-bridge. Tlie fall from 
the junction with the 'Dearire and Dove canal, is 120 feet to 
the riverCalder. The rates of tonnage are : For every quar¬ 
ter of wheat, fnel'led-beans, peafe, vetches, and lentils, 
rape, line, cole, muftara-feed, apples, pears, onions, and 
potatoes, carried the whole length of the canal, and in the 
iante proportion for any lefs didance, fix-pence. For every 
quarter of barley, carried the whole length of the canal, 
and Join proportion, five-pence. For every quarter of oats 
or malt, carried the whole length of the canal, and fo in pro¬ 
portion, four-pence. For every pack or flieet of wool, dried 
pelts, or fpetches, fix-pence. For every ton of coal, fleck, 
cinders, culm, and charcoal, per mile, one penny. For 
every ton of lime, per mile, one penny ; lime-flone, 
three-farthings. But if it (hould happen that boats or vef- 
fels which carry tip either of the two laft articles, viz. 
lime or lime-flone, return loaded with coals, or any other 
articles, amounting to thirty tons or more in each boat or 
vcO'cl, then fuch boat to be rated or charged, lime, per 
ton, per mile, three-farthings; lime-flone, per ton per mile, 
one-halfpenny. For every ton of flone, iron-ftone, flag 
•paving-flone, and flate, per mile, one-penny. But, in cale 
the boats and. veflels which carry up thele articles come 
down loaded as thofe mentioned carrying up lime and lime- 
llone, then to be charged, per ton permile, three-farthings. 
For every ton of old or pig iron, permile, three-halfpence. 
For every ton of cafl-ir.eral goods, ready for the purpofe for 
vi hich they are intended, and bar-iron, per mile, two-pence. 
I'oreveiy ton of oak, elm, a(h, fir, deals, and battens, per 
mile, three-halfpence. And for every ton of groceries of 
all kinds, linen and woollen yarn, cotton, flax, hemp, ma¬ 
nufactured goods of all fens, with every other kind of 
goods, wares, merchandife, commodities, and things 
whatsoever, per mile, two-pence. For every ton of coals, 
See. carried on the rail-ways, three-pence per mile. For 
every ton of coals, &c. carried on any (lotted road, three- 
halfpence per mile. Owners and occupiers of adjoining 
lands are not liable to pay rates for their neceflary and cuf- 
tomary palling on the roads. Exemption, all dung, foil, 
marie, afliesof coal, and turf,-and all other manure (ex¬ 
cept lime) for the improvement only of adjoining lands. 
Ail materials for making and repairing publicxir private 
roads, (except flag-flones, ettrb-flones, or caufeway-flones,) 
under the ufuul reflections. Whatever veflels (hall pafs 
from the Dearne and Dove canal into this canal empty, 
not intending to return with a lading, the fame tliall be 
charged three-halfpence per ton, tor thirty tons, for the 
whole diftance from the junction to the Calder; and the 
fame if coming from the Calder empty, &c. 
Brecknock Canal. 
This joins the Monmouthfhire canal, eight miles and a 
half from Newport, and about one from Pontipool; it crof- 
fes the Avon, where it caffes the high ground by means of 
a tunnel, 220 yards l.ong, and, inclining towards the river 
Ufk, pafles Abergavenny ; it then runs parallel with the 
U(k to the town of Brecknock ; making a courfe of near 
thirty-three miles, with fixty-eighb feet life to Brecon. 
There is a rail-read from Abergavenny to the canal, one 
mile long; and from the.canal at Cwtn Clydack to the coal 
and iron works at Wain Dew, which is four miles and 
three-quarters. There is alfo a rail road from the canal to 
Llangrciney, which erodes the river Ufk, and is in length 
one mile and a quarter. The rates for the canal and rail¬ 
ways arc: For all iron-ftone, iron-ote, lead-ore, coals, 
culm, coaks, cinders, and charcoal, two-pence per ton per 
mile. For all lime, lime-flone, tiles, (late, bricks, flag- 
flones, and other (tones, clay, (and, hay, (haw, and corn in 
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the ft:aw, all materials for the repairs of roads, and 
all kinds of manure, one penny per ton per mile. For 
all cattle, (keep, (wine, and other beads, four-pence per 
ton per mile. For all iron and lead, three-pence per 
ton per mile. For all timber, goods, wares, merchandife, 
&c. four-pence per ton per mile. Fractions to be divided 
into a quarter of a ton, and half a mile.—For travelling on 
the rail-roads : For every horfe, mule, or afs, one penny 
each. For all cows and other cattle, one halfpenny each. 
For all (heep, fwine, and calves, five-pence per fcore. And 
tor goods remaining on wharfs more than forty-emht hours 
a reaionable latisfaftion (hall be made. 
Caistor Canal. 
This canal joins the river Ancholme, in the parifn of 
South Ivelfey ; and proceeds in a diredt courfe to the town 
of Caiftor, being a diftance of about nine miles. The fol¬ 
lowing are the rates of tonnage : For every quarter of 
wheat, rye, (helled-beans, peafe, vetches, lintels, apples, 
pears, onions, and potatoes, three-halfpence per mile. For 
every quarter of barley, malt, and oats, one penny per 
mile. For every pack or flieet of wool, dried pelts, or 
fpetches, three-halfpence per mile. For coal, fleck, cin¬ 
ders, culm, and charcoal, four-pence per ton per mile. 
For lime, three-pence per ton per mile. For bricks and 
tiles, two-pence per ton per mile. For (tone-flag, paving- 
flone, and (late, three-pence per ton per mile. Forcaft- 
metal goods, ready for life, except cleaning and putting 
together ; bar and other iron ; fix-pence per ton per mile” 
For timber, Engliflt or foreign, deals, &c. four-pence per 
ton per mile. For all groceries, linen and woollen yarn, 
cotton, flax, hemp, manufactured goods, wares, merchant 
dife, Sec. eight-pence per ton per mile. Exemptions: 
officers, or foldters on their march, with their horfes, arms', 
baggage, See. timber or (lores for the ufe of his majefty! 
All gravel, (and, &c. for making or repairing public roads ; 
alio dung, marie, foil, &c. for the purpofe of manure, and 
belonging to owners of adjoining lands; the (ante not to 
pafs any lock, unlefs the water (hall flow over the wade 
weir, See. 
Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation. 
'1 he fiver Chelmer is made navigable, with new cuts 
where neceflary, as far as Beeley-mill, nearMaldon; where, 
by means of a cut, the navigation leaves the Chelmer, and 
erodes into the.river Blackwater, down which it goes about 
three-quarters of a mile to Hey-bridge, from whence a new 
cut continues the navigation about one mile and a half into 
the Blackwater at Colliers-reach, below Maldon; there is a 
branch to. Maldon, with a bafon. The total length of this 
navigation is thirteen miles and five furlongs, in which 
there is preferved of the old channel very near ten miles. 
The fall from Chelmsford is feventy-nine feet and a half. 
The following are the rates of tonnage : For coals, two¬ 
pence per chaldron per mile. For (lone, one penny per ton 
per mile. For lime, chalk, dung, and other manure, to be 
tifed only for the improvement of land, one penny per ton 
per mile. For wheat, barley, rye, peafe, beans, and tares, 
one halfpenny per quarter per mile. For oats, malt, and all 
other forts of grain and feeds, not before mentioned, one 
farthing per quarter per mile. For every fack of meal, or 
flour, containing five bufhels, one farthing per fack per 
mile. For all other goods, wares, See. two-pence halfpenny 
per ton per mile. Exemptions: flone, gravel, and (and, to 
be employed only in making or repairing public or private 
roads, nor being turnpike, in any townflup, village, or ham¬ 
let, through which the faid navigation (hall be made, and 
which (hall not be carried more than live miles upon the 
fame ; but not to pafs any lock, unlefs the water (hall flow 
over the wafte weir. No wharfage to be demanded at any 
of the company’s wharfs, for goods, &c. provided the fame 
do not lie more than twenty-four hours. And for chalk, 
lime, and other manure, not more than three-pence per ton; 
and for other goods, or merchandife, one fhilhng per ton, 
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