sert as much as relates thereto.

ACT OF THE 5TH OF GEORGE II.

"An Act for rendering more effectual an Act passed in the 13th year
of the reign of his late Majesty King George the First, entitled an
Act for improving the Navigation of the River Ouse, in the County of
York:--

"That from and after the 24th day of June, 1732, all and every the
goods, wares, and merchandises, and other commodities, carried and
conveyed on the said River Ouse, above Wharfe mouth, except such
manure, dung, compost, or lime only, as shall be water borne, and
used and applied in tillage; and also except all timber, stone, and
other materials, made use of in or about the works necessary for
improving of the navigation of the said river, shall pay the tolls or
rates following, that is to say,--

"For every ton of wines and groceries, almonds, Areack brandy, cyder,
cydar egar, hops, fish oil, line-oil, Florence oil, Seville oil, and
turpentine oil, rum, spirits, tobacco, vinegar, bacon, hams, sides,
and pork; cases and chests by measure, china, coffee, cork, drugs,
and medicines; dyers' ware, (except logwood, copperas, and alum);
flour, glass, (except green glass bottles); haberdashers' wares,
household furniture, iron wrought, linen, linen-drapers' wares,
lemons, oranges, and nuts; leather and calves' skins; mercery ware,
silk and woollen, paper white and books, garden seeds, salt, tea, and
woollen-drapery ware,--two shillings and sixpence respectively;--and
so in proportion for any greater or less quantity. For every ton of
cheese, flax, pewter, soap, marble, bell-metal, brass battery, and
copper, two shillings respectively, and so in proportion for any
greater or less quantity.

"For every ton of oak, bark, corn of all sorts, earthenware, green
glass bottles, iron cast and unwrought, lead white and red; paper,
cap, white, and brown; grass-seeds, beans and peas, rapeseed, stone,
tallow, tin-plates and wire; timber, oak, ash and elm,--one shilling
respectively; and so in proportion for every greater or less
quantity.

"For every ton of alum, copperas, logwood, brimstone, bricks, tiles,
coals, hemp, hay, lime for building, lead, and turfs,--sixpence
respectively; and so in proportion for any greater or less quantity.

"For every firkin, pot, cask, or other vessel of butter, one penny.