[Rate of Six Peace for every Two hundred Words of such Copies or Extracts of the said Book of Reference.]

The lines
ascertained
by the Plan,
xc

And be further Enacted, That the said Company of Proprietors, in making any of the Cuts by this Act authorized to be made, or the Canal, or any of the Cuts authorized to be made by the said recited Act, shall not deviate more than One hundred Yards from the Lines or Courses thereof described in the Maps or Plans deposited with the respective Clerks of the Peace for the Counties in which the same shall respectively be made, and which Deviation of One hundred Yards the said Company of Proprietors may cause to be made, if they judge it expedient, except in such Part of the said Cut from the Town of Wendover to the Grand Junction Canal at Bulbourne, as leads through the Parish of Halton, In the County of Buckingham, which shall continued in the Cause the same is already made, and no Deviation shall be made therefrom without the Consent of Sir John Dashwood, Baronet, the Owner of the Lands within the said Parish of Halton; and it shall be lawful for the said Company of Proprietors to Cause the said Canal cuts, or any of them, to be made and carried through any Lands or Grounds, of any Description whatsoever, lying within the Line thereof, ascertained and described in the said Plans and Books of Reference respectively, although the same may not have been particularly mentioned for that Purpose in the said recited Act: Provided always, that no such Deviation as aforesaid shall be made into or carried through the Lands of any Person not named in the Books of Reference deposited with such Plans respectively, without the Consent in Writing of such Person, and that no Advantage shall be taken of or against the said Company of Proprietors, or any Interruption be given to the making of the said Cuts, or any of them, on Account of any Error or Omission whatsoever in the said Books of Reference, in café it shall appear to any Five or more of more of the Commissioners appointed in or by virtue of the said recited Act, and be certified by Writing under their Hands, that such Error or Omission Proceeded from Mistake, any Thing hereinbefore or in the said recited Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

Reftrictions
respecting
the Mansion
House of Mr.
Sheppard.

Provided always, and be it further enacted, That the said Company of Proprietors shall and are hereby required, at all Times, to pen and keep up the Water in the said intended Canal from Buckingham to Old Stratford at Thornton, in the said County of Buckingham,

Buckingham, to the Height the present Flood Gates can pen and keep up the same, and that no Towing Path shall be made or used on the Side of the said Canal next to the Mansion House of Thomas Sheppard, of Thornton aforesaid, Esquire, or on any Part of the Manor of Thornton ,on the Side of the said Mansion House, and that the Side of the Bank of any Towing Path which shall be made on the other Side of the said Canal, in the Front of the said Mansion House and Gardens, shall be regularly formed and sloped, and the said Towing Path shall be covered with Gravel, and kept in good Order and Condition, and that no Stones, Timber, Dung, or Materials whatsoever shall be laid or placed upon such Towing Path, or on the Side of the Bank thereof, or on either of the Banks or Sides of the said Canal, in the Front of the said Mansion House and Gardens, or on any Part of the said Manor of Thornton, without the Consent of the said Thomas Sheppard, his Heirs or Assigns, and that the said Company of Proprietors shall cause such Part of the said Canal as shall be in Front of the said Mansion House and Gardens to be kept free from Weeds.

Mr Sheppard
may use
Pleasure Boats

Provided also, and be it further Enacted, That the said Thomas Sheppard, and the occupier for the Time being of his said Mansion House, shall have full and free Liberty to use any Pleasure Boat upon the said Canal, and to pass and repass through the Lock or Locks which may be erected upon the said Canal, at the Head of Water upon which a certain Corn Mill, in the Parish of Thornton aforesaid, belonging to the said Thomas Sheppard, now stands, or within or opposite to the said Manor of Thornton, without paying any Rate or Tonnage to the said Company Proprietors for the same, any Thing in the said recited Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

Drains to be
made for
drawing the
Water from Mr Sheppard’s
Fish Ponds.

And be it further Enacted, That the said Company of Proprietors shall and are hereby required, at their own proper Costs and Charges, to make, and forever support and keep in good Repair, proper and sufficient Drains, under the Bed of the said intended Canal, so as to enable the said Thomas Sheppard, his Heirs or Assigns, to draw of the water from the Fish Ponds, Stews, and osier Beds belonging to the said Thomas Sheppard, in Thornton aforesaid, near the Line of the said intended Canal.

Mr Sheppard may
draw off the Water
for the Canal at
the lock at

And be it further Enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Thomas Sheppard, his Heirs or Assigns, Three Times in every Year (but not oftener) at such Times as he or they shall think proper to draw off the Water of the said Canal at the Lock or Locks to be.

Thornton Mill Thice
Times a Year

be crected at the Head of Water at Thornton Mill as aforesaid, or within or opposite to the Manor of Thornton, in order to take the Fish within such Part of the said Canal as shall lie in the said Parish of Thornton, without any Hindrance or Interruption of the said Company of Proprietors, or any Person acting under their Authority, the said Thomas Sheppard, his Heirs or Assigns, giving Ten Days Notice in Writing to the said Company of Proprietors, by delivering the same to the Clerk or Clerks of the said Company of Proprietors, or by leaving the same at their principle Office for the Time being, of his Intention of drawing off the said Water for the purpose aforesaid, and that it shall also be lawful for the said Thomas Sheppard, his Heirs or Assigns, to make use of the Flood Gates upon the said Canal, within the said Parish of the Thornton, for the Purpose of taking or catching of Eels.

No Building or
Mill to be erected
opposite
Mr Sheppard’s
Mansion
House or Gardens.

Provided always, and be it further Enacted, That the said Company of Proprietors shall not build or erect, or cause to be built or erected, any Warehouse or Building within the said Parish or Manor of Thornton, or opposite to the said Mansion House or Gardens, or any mill within or opposite to the said Parish or Manor, without the consent of the said Thomas Sheppard, his Heirs or Assigns, any Thing in this act to the contrary hereof notwithstanding.