 ... of the docks to their maintenance, to the payment of a fixed interest on the borrowed capital, and any surplus towards the reduction of the rates levied on vessels. This arrangement ought to conduce to low rates, as there are no shareholders whose...  Harbours and Docks: Text - Page 512by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt - 1885Full view - About this book
 | Gustav ritter von Wex - Floods - 1881 - 814 pages
...Liverpool, including both land and water, covers an area of 1075 acres ; whilst the docks at Birkenhcad, about to be described, cover an area of 506 acres...dredging required for maintaining the depth in the 1 docks ; the number of entrances which have to be kept in repair, owing to the small size of many... | |
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