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Saving of rights specifically reserved to canal companies and others by existing Acts of Parliament.
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4. Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall be deemed or construed to deprive any canal or navigation company, or the commissioners, trustees, undertakers, or proprietors of any canal, river, or navigation, or the owners, lessees, or occupiers of any lands, collieries, quarries, or other hereditaments adjoining or near to any of such canals or navigations, or the overseers or surveyors of the roads of an y parish, township, or hamlet, through which any such canal or navigation may pass, of any powers, rights, privileges, exemptions, or advantages specifically and expressly secured to them by any existing Act of Parliament: Provided also, that where by any canal or navigation Act or Acts now passed the tolls, rates, or duties (whether tolls per mile or tolls in gross) upon any description of goods, animals, articles, or things, or upon any boats, barges, or other vessels, which shall be navigated, carried, or conveyed along any canal or navigation, or any portion thereof, and which shall pass into, out of, or along any such canal or navigation, or any portion thereof, from, into, or along any other canal or navigation, canals or navigations, adjoining or communicating therewith, or any portion thereof, or from or to the junction or junctions with any such adjoining or communicating canal or navigation, canals or navigations, are or shall be specially fixed, determined, or limited, either absolutely, or with reference to the tolls, rates, or duties to be levied or received from time to time on goods, animals, articles, or things, boats, barges, or other vessels, passing into, out of, or along such canal or navigation, or any portion or portions thereof respectively, from, into, or along any other adjoining or communicating canal or navigation, canals or navigations, or from or to the junction or junctions with such other adjoining or communicating canal or navigation, canals or navigations, or where in any such Act or Acts any special enactment or provision shall have been inserted for securing a rateable reduction or advance of the respective tolls, rates, or duties to be levied or received from time to time on goods, animals, articles, or things, boats, barges, or other vessels, or on goods, animals, articles, or things of the same description, passing over, along, into, or from any canal or navigation, or several and distinct portions of any canal or navigation, into or along two or more adjoining or communicating canals or navigations, or from or to the respective junctions of two or more adjoining or communicating canals or navigations, no alteration or variation of the tolls, rates, and duties, so specially fixed, determined, or limited, or any or either of them, other than such alterations or variations as are respectively authorized to be made under the several Acts for regulating such canals or navigations, shall be made under the authority of this Act without the previous consent in writing of the proprietors, trastees, undertakers, or commissioners of the canal or navigation, or of all the several canals or navigations, who are expressly mentioned in such special enactments or provisions, or of the committee, directors, or managers of the company, trustees, undertakers, or commissioners, or respective companies, trustees, undertakers, or commissioners of such canal or navigation, canals or navigations, which consents such companies, trustees, undertakers, and commissioners, or their respective committees, directors, or managers, are hereby authorized to give, either under their common seals respectively, or under the hand of their respective clerks or secretaries, although any such companies, trustees, or undertakers so consenting may not have adopted the other powers of this Act.
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