Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1859 — Provincial Canals—Reduction of Tolls. [ARTICLE]

Provincial Canals—Reduction of Tolls.

By the Toronto Colonist of the 15th in*t we learn that by an Order in Council, to take effect on the 15th inst.. considerable reductions have been made on the tolls upon the tolls on the Welland and St. Lawrence canals. On the Welland Canah articles in tlie 3d class have been reduced from 20 cents to 15 cents per ton; those iu the 4th class, from 25 cents to 20 cents; those of the sth class from 30 to 25 cents, and those ot the 6th class from $1 to 50 cents, while boards, planks, scantling and other sawed lumber, which lately paid 30 cents per 1,000 superficial feet, are n >w (barged 20 cents. Barrel staves and heading 20 cents instead of 40 per M. Pipe st ives $1,50 instead ol $2,00, and West India staves 60 cents in lieu ol 75 cents. The following articles which hitherto paid sl, as coming under the 6th class, have been transferred to the sth class, paying 35 cents per ton only, viz: Rosin, tar, pitch, whiting, chalk, ships’ stores, crockery, iron safes, soda ash,“~whi 1 e lead, paint, turpentine, dye woods ; ml dye stuffs, leather, manufactured tobacco, mahogany and agricultural implemerits. Ice has been placed in the 3d or lowest dess, and horses, and ill kinds of oil .n barrels, .ve been put in the 4th class. B«i* by far t most important reduction is in flour, \vi ■ a and agricultural products, not elsewhere enumerated, from the sth *o the 4th class, thus reducing the tolls on these staple article 3 from 30 cents per ton, which they recently paid, to 90 cents per ton.