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CROMER.
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Order for the Construction, Maintenance, and Regulation of a Pier and Harbour at Cromer, in the County of Norfolk.
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Incorporation of Company.
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1. The following persons, namely, Henry Peter Andrews, John Hawthorne Lydall, John Beastall Jerram, and all other persons and corporations subscribing to the Undertaking authorized by this Order, and their executors, administrators, successors, and assigns respectively, shall be and are hereby constituted into a Company, for the purpose of making, maintaining, and regulating the Harbour and Works authorized by this Order, and for those purposes shall be and are hereby incorporated by the name, of “The Cromer Pier Company,” and by that name shall be one body corporate, with perpetual succession and a common seal, and with power to purchase, take, hold, and dispose of lands and other property for the purposes, but subject to the restrictions, of this Order.
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Undertakers.
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2. The Cromer Pier Company, in this Order called the Company, shall be the undertakers of the Works authorized by this Order.
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Incorporation of Clauses Act.
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3. “The Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845,” Part I. of “The Companies Clauses Act, 1863,” “The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845,” except so much as relates to the purchase or taking of lands otherwise than by agreement, and “The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act Amendment Act, 1860,” shall respectively be incorporated with this Order.
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Capital.
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4. The Capital of the Company shall be ten thousand pounds, in one thousand shares of ten pounds each.
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Shares not to be issued until one-fifth paid up.
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5. The Company shall not issue any share created under the authority of this Order, nor shall any such share vest in the person accepting the same, unless and until a sum, not being less than one-fifth part of the amount of such share, has been paid in respect thereof.
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Calls.
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6. No call shall exceed two pounds a share, or be made payable within three months of a previous call.
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Power to create preference shares.
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7. The Company, with the sanction of at least three-fifths in value of the votes of the Shareholders present in person or by proxy at a general meeting, specially convened for that purpose, may attach to all or any of the then unissued shares, not exceeding one-third part of the capital, dividend at a rate not exceeding five pounds per centum per annum, in priority to the dividend on the other shares of the capital.
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Borrowing on mortgage.
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8. The Company, from time to time, may borrow on mortgage, at interest, any sum or sums of money, not exceeding in the whole three thousand three hundred and thirty-three pounds, but no money shall be so borrowed until the whole of the capital of ten thousand pounds is subscribed for or taken, and one-half thereof is paid up, and the Company satisfy the Justice who certifies under Section 40 of “The Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845,” before he so certifies, that the whole of the capital has been issued and accepted, and that one-half thereof has been paid up, and that not less than one-fifth part of the amount of each separate share has been paid on account thereof before or at the time of the issue or acceptance thereof, and that the capital was issued bonâ fide, and is held by registered holders thereof, legally liable for so much thereof as is not paid up (of which satisfaction the certificate shall be conclusive evidence).
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Receiver.
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9. The Mortgagees of the Company may enforce the payment of the arrears of interest, or of principal and interest, due on their respective mortgages, by the appointment of a Receiver, and the amount to authorize a requisition for a Receiver is five hundred pounds.
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No interest or dividend on calls.
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10. The Company shall not, out of any money raised by calls or borrowing, pay interest or dividend to any Shareholder on the amount called up in respect of shares held by him, but this provision shall not prevent the Company paying to any Shareholder interest on any money advanced by him beyond the amount of calls actually made, as may be in conformity with “The Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845.”
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Money not to be used for deposit, under Standing Orders, &c.
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11. The Company shall not, out of any money so raised, pay or deposit any money required to be paid or deposited in relation to any application to Parliament or the Board of Trade.
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Money to be applied for purposes of Order.
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12. Every part of the money so raised shall be applied only for the purposes authorized by this Order.
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First general meeting.
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13. The first general meeting of the Company shall be held within twelve months after the passing of an Act of Parliament confirming this Order, at such time and place as the Directors determine.
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Number of Directors.
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14. The number of Directors shall not be more than nine nor less than five.
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Quorum of Directors.
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15. The quorum of a meeting of Directors shall be three.
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First Directors.
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16. Henry Peter Andrews, John Hawthorne Lydall, John Beastall Jerram, with such other Shareholders (if any) as they add to their number, shall be the first Directors; and the first Directors shall continue in office till the first general meeting of the Company, when they shall retire from office, and Directors shall be elected by the meeting, the retiring Directors being eligible for re-election.
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Qualification.
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17. The qualification of a Director elected by the Shareholders, or nominated as aforesaid, shall be the holding, in his own right, of shares in the capital of the Company to the aggregate nominal amount of at least one hundred pounds.
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Remuneration.
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18. The remuneration of the Directors shall, from time to time, be fixed by a general meeting, and shall be divided among the Directors as they determine.
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Power to take lands by agreement.
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19. For the purposes of the works authorized by this Order, the Company may, from time to time, by agreement, enter on, take, and use all or such parts of the lands shown on the plans deposited for the purposes of this Order, as they think requisite for the purposes of the proposed Pier and Works, and the conveniences connected therewith.
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Lands for extraordinary purposes.
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20. The Company may purchase and hold, for extraordinary purposes, any land not exceeding in the whole three acres.
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Power to make works.
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21. Subject to the provisions of this Order, and subject also to such alterations (if any) in the deposited plans, as the Board of Trade require, from time to time, before the completion of the Works, in order to prevent injury to navigation, the Company may, on the lands taken by them under this Order, in the lines and according to the levels shown on the deposited plans and sections (so far as the same are shown thereon), and within the limits of deviation shown on those plans, make and maintain the Pier and Works authorized by this Order.
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Description of works authorized.
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22. The works authorized comprise the following:-
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A Pier, Jetty, and Landing Place, with all proper works, approaches, and other conveniences for the embarking and landing of passengers, fish, goods, and merchandise, and other purposes, in the parish of Cromer, in the county of Norfolk, commencing at a point upon the esplanade or sea wall opposite the end of Jetty Street, thirty-three feet or thereabouts to the east of the existing jetty, and extending thence seawards in a north-north east direction seven hundred and fifty feet, or thereabouts, the whole of the landward portion of which said Pier, Jetty, Landing Place, works, and approaches will be situate in, or abut upon, the said parish of Cromer, in the county of Norfolk.
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Power to take rate in schedule.
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23. The Company may, for the use of the Pier and Works, demand and take, in respect of the vessels, persons, fish, animals, and goods in the Schedule hereto specified, any sums not exceeding the rates in that Schedule specified.
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Certain fishing vessels under stress of weather exempt from rates.
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24. Fishing vessels belonging to countries with which, for the time being, treaties exist exempting from duties and port charges such vessels when forced by stress of weather to seek shelter in the ports or on the coasts of the United Kingdom, shall when forced by stress of weather to make use of the Pier authorized by this Order and not breaking bulk while making use thereof, be exempt from rates leviable under this Order.
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Pass tickets for use of pier.
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Pass tickets not transferable.
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25. The Company may grant to passengers, promenaders, and other persons, pass tickets for the use of the Pier and Works, at such rates, on such terms, and for such periods not exceeding one year, as may be agreed upon. Such pass ticket granted by the Company shall not be transferable, and shall not be used by any person other than the person to or for whom it is granted, or by any person after the period limited for its use. If any person acts in any way in contravention of this provision, or uses, or attempts to use, any false or counterfeit pass ticket, he shall, for every such offence, be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty shillings, recoverable and applicable as penalties arc recoverable and applicable under “The Harbours, Docks, and Piers Clauses Act, 1847,” for all the purposes of which Act this Order shall be deemed the Special Act.
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Exemption of Custom House Officers from rates.
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26. Officers of Customs, being in the execution of their duty, shall at all times have free ingress, passage, and egress on, to, and over the Pier and Works, by land and with their vessels, without payment.
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Steam engines, lighters, &c.
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27. The Company may provide and use such steam engines, steam vessels, piling engines, diving bells, ballast lighters, rubbish lighters, barges, boats, cranes, buoys, mooring posts, mooring craft, weighing machines, tackle, and other machinery, vessels, apparatus, and conveniences, as they think proper, for carrying on the business of the Company, or for any of the purposes of this Order, and may demand and take such sums for the use thereof as they think reasonable.
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Meters and weighers.
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28. The Company shall have the appointment of Meters and Weighers on, or in connexion with, the Pier.
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Restriction on use of pier.
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29. Nothing in this Order shall entitle any person, with any vessel or boat, to ship or unship at the Pier or Jetty authorized by this Order any sheep, cattle, or merchandise, or to ship or unship there anything which, in the judgment of the Company, might in any manner interfere with, the use of the Pier or Jetty for recreation, or for the embarking or landing of passengers.
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Saving rights under Crown Lands Act, 1866.
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30. This Order shall not be taken as a consent to the surrender of any rights, interests, powers, authorities, or privileges transferred to the management of the Board of Trade, by “The Crown Lands Act, 1866,” nor shall any works under this Order be commenced within limits affected by any such rights, interests, powers, authorities, or privileges without the assent of the Board of Trade having been first obtained.
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Short Title.
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31. This Order may be cited as “The Cromer Pier Order, 1867,”
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SCHEDULE to which the foregoing Order refers.
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I.—RATES ON VESSELS USING THE PIER.
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s.
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d.
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For every vessel under the burden of 15 tons, per ton
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0
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4
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For every vessel of the burden of 15 tons and under 50 tons, per ton
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0
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6
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For every vessel of the burden of 50 tons and under 100 tons, per ton
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0
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8
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For every vessel of the burden of 100 tons and under 150 tons, per ton
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0
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10
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For every vessel of the burden of 150 tons and upwards, per ton
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1
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0
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All lighters for each trip, per ton
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0
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2
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All boats entirely open, landing or taking on board goods, each
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0
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6
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II.—RATES OF GOODS SHIPPED OK UNSHIPPED AT THE PIER.
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Ale, beer and porter, per hogshead
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0
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6
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Ale (bottled), per barrel
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0
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4
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Ditto, per dozen bottles
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0
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9
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Anchors, per cwt.
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0
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1
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Anchor stock, per foot run
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0
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2
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Bark, per ton
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2
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0
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Bedding, per bundle
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0
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3
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Beef or pork, per cwt.
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0
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3
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Ditto, per barrel
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0
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6
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Biscuit or bread, per cwt.
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0
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3
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Blubber, per ton of 252 gallons
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3
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0
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Bones and bone dust, per ton
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1
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6
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Bottles, per gross
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0
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9
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Bricks, per 1,000
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1
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6
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Butter and lard, per barrel
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0
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6
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Ditto, per firkin
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0
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3
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Cables, iron or hempen, per ton
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3
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0
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Canvas, per bolt
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0
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1
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Casks (empty), not being returned packages, per puncheon
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0
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3
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Other casks in proportion.
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Cattle:—
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Bulls, cows, and oxen, each
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3
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0
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Calves, each
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1
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0
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Horses, each
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4
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0
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Pigs, each
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0
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6
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Sheep, each
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1
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0
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Chalk, per ton
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1
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0
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Cheese, per cwt.
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0
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4
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Chimney pots, each
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0
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3
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Clay, per ton
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1
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0
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Cloth, haberdashery, &c., per package not exceeding cwt.
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0
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6
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Carriages:—
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Chaises and other four-wheeled carriages, each
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7
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6
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Gigs, carts, and other two-wheeled carriages, each
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5
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0
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Hand-carts and perambulators, each
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1
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0
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Coals, per ton
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1
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0
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Copper, per ton
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3
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0
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Cordage, per cwt.
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0
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3
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Cork, per cwt.
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0
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6
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Corpses, each
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20
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0
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Crystal, per box or package
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0
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6
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Dogs, each
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0
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6
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Drugs (in casks, hampers, or boxes), per foot
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0
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2
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Earthenware (in casks, hampers, or boxes), per foot
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0
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2
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Earthenware (in crates), per foot
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0
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1
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Eggs, per box
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0
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3
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Fish (dried and salted), per cwt.
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0
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3
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Ditto, fresh (not-enumerated), per cwt.
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0
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2
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Flax, per ton
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2
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0
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Flour and meal, per sack
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0
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4
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Ditto, per barrel
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0
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3
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Fruit, per bushel or sieve
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0
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4
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Furniture (household), per 5 cubic feet
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0
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4
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Glass, per large crate
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1
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6
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Ditto, per small crate or case
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1
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0
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Ditto, per box
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0
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6
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Grains and seeds, per quarter
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0
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6
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Groceries (not enumerated)
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0
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6
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Guano, per ton
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1
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6
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Gunpowder, per barrel or keg
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0
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6
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Hams, bacon, or tongues, per cwt.
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0
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4
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Hardware, per ton
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2
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6
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Hares and rabbits, per dozen
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0
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4
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Hay, per ton
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1
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6
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Ditto, per truss
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0
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2
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Hemp, per ton
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2
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0
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Herrings (fresh), per 1,000
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0
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3
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Ditto (cured), per barrel
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0
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3
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Hides:—
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Ox, cow, or horse (wet or dry), each
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0
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2
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Iron:—
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Bar, bolt, rod and shots, per ton
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1
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6
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Pig and old, per ton
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1
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0
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Manufactured, per ton
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2
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6
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Pots, each
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0
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1
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Kelp, per ton
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2
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0
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Lead, per ton
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2
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6
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Leather, tanned and dressed, per cwt.
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0
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3
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Lime, per 28 bushels
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1
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4
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Limestone, per ton
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1
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0
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Machinery, per ton
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2
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6
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Manure (not enumerated), per ton
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1
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0
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Masts and spars, 10 inches in diameter and upwards, each
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4
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6
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Ditto, under 10 inches
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3
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0
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Meat (fresh), per cwt.
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0
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6
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Milk, per gallon
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0
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0½
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Musical instruments, per cube foot
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0
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1
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Nets, per 5 cube feet
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0
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4
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Oakum, per cwt.
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0
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2
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Oils, per tun
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2
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0
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Oilcake, per ton
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2
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0
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Oranges and lemons, per box
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0
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6
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Ores, per ton
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1
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0
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Oysters, per bushel
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0
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3
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Paint, per cwt.
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0
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4
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Pitch and tar, per barrel
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0
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6
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Potatoes, per cwt.
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0
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2
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Poultry and game, per dozen
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0
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4
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Rags and old rope, per ton
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2
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0
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Sails, per cwt.
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0
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6
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Salt, per cwt.
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0
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1
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Sand, per ton
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1
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0
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Shrimp baskets, each
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2
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0
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Skins:—
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Calf, goat, sheep, lamb or dog, per dozen
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0
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6
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Slates, per ton, of 24 cubic feet
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2
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0
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Spirits (Foreign and British), per hogshead
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1
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0
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Ditto, ditto, per gallon
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0
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1
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Stones, per ton, of 16 cubic feet
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1
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6
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Steel, per ton
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3
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0
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Sugar, per cwt.
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0
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3
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Tallow, soap, and candles, per cwt.
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0
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3
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Tea, per chest
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1
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0
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Tiles, per 1,000
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1
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6
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Tin and zinc, per ton
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3
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0
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Tobacco, per cwt.
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0
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6
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Turbot, per score
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0
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3
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Turnips, per ton
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0
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6
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Turpentine and varnish, per barrel
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0
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6
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Turtle, each
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2
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6
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Vegetables (not enumerated), per cwt.
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0
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4
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Vinegar, per hogshead
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0
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6
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Vitriol, per carboy
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1
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0
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Water, per cask
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0
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3
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Wine, per hogshead
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1
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0
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Ditto, bottled, per dozen bottles
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0
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2
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Wood:—
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Fir, pine, and other-descriptions not enumerated, per load of 50 feet
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1
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6
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Oak or wainscot, per load of 50 feet
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2
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0
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Firewood, per 216 cubic feet fathom
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1
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6
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Laths and lathwood, per fathom of 216 cubic feet
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2
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6
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Handspikes, per 120
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3
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0
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Oars, per 120
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5
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0
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Spars, under 22 feet in length, above 2½ and under 4 inches in diameter, per 120
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5
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0
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Ditto, 2 ½ inches in diameter and under, per 120
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4
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0
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Ditto, 22 feet in length and upwards, and not exceeding 4 inches in diameter, per 120
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9
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0
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Ditto, above 4 and under 6 inches in diameter, per 120
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14
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0
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Spokes of wheels, not exceeding 2 feet in length, per 120
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2
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0
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Ditto, exceeding 2 feet in length, per 120
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3
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0
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Trenails, per 1,000
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2
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6
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Wedges, per 1,000
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2
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6
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Pine staves, and others in proportion, per 120
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2
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6
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Lignum vitæ, fustic, logwood, mahogany and rosewood, per ton
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2
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0
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Wool, per cwt.
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0
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4
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Yarn, per cwt.
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0
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2
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All other Goods not particularly enumerated above.
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Light goods, per cube foot
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0
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1
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Heavy goods, per ton
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2
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0
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In charging the rates on goods, the gross weight or measurement of all goods to be taken; and for any less weights, measures, and quantities than those above specified, a portion of the respective rates shall be charged.
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III.—RATES FOR USE OF CRANES, WEIGHING MACHINES, AND SHEDS.
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1st. Rates of Craneage.
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s.
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d.
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All goods or packages not exceeding 1 ton
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0
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4
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Exceeding 1 ton and not exceeding 2 tons
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0
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6
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Exceeding 2 tons and not exceeding 3 tons
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0
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8
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Exceeding 3 tons and not exceeding 4 tons
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0
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10
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Exceeding 4 tons and not exceeding 5 tons
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1
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0
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Exceeding 5 tons and not exceeding 6 tons
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1
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2
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Exceeding 6 tons and not exceeding 7 tons
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1
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4
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Exceeding 7 tons and not exceeding 8 tons
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1
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6
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Exceeding 8 tons and not exceeding 9 tons
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1
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10
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Exceeding 9 tons and not exceeding 10 tons
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2
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4
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Exceeding 10 tons
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3
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6
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2nd. Weighing Machines.
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s.
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d.
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For goods weighed, for each ton or part of a ton
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0
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2
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3rd. Shed Dues.
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For each ton of goods of 40 cubic feet, or for each ton of goods of 20 cwt., which shall remain in the sheds or other works of the Pier, for a longer time than 48 hours, the sum of 3d., and the sum of 1½d. per ton for each day during which such goods shall remain after first 48 hours.
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For any portmanteau, trunk, parcel or other article of passengers’ luggage, for each day or part of a day, per package
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0
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2
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IV.—RATES FOR SUPPLYING WATER ON PIER.
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Water, per 1,000 gallons
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10
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0
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V.—RATES ON PASSENGERS AND PROMENADERS USING THE PIER.
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For every passenger or other person who shall land on the Pier from, or embark from it on board of, any ship, vessel, packet or passage-boat, for each and every time any sum not exceeding
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0
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6
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For every person who shall use the Pier for the purpose of walking for exercise, pleasure or any other purpose, except for embarking or disembarking, for each and every time any sum not exceeding
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0
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4
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For every bath or sedan chair taken on the Pier, for each and every time not exceeding
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0
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6
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For every perambulator
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0
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2
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For every master of any vessel, boat or wherry, being an inhabitant of the parish of Cromer, and using the said Pier for the purpose of going to or returning from his own vessel, boat or wherry, an annual sum not exceeding
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20
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0
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VI.—RATES ON PASSENGERS’ LUGGAGE.
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For every trunk, portmanteau, box, parcel or other package within the description of luggage, not exceeding 28 lbs.
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0
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2
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Over 28 lbs. and not exceeding 84 lbs.
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0
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4
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Over 84 lbs. and not exceeding 112 lbs.
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0
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5
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Over 112 lbs. and not exceeding 140 lbs.
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0
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6
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Over 140 lbs. and not exceeding 196 lbs.
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0
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7
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Over 196 lbs. and not exceeding 2 cwt.
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0
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8
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And for every cwt. beyond
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0
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4
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And for every 20 lbs. weight in addition
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0
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1
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