Note 348 — Chapter XII

The capital of this dock company, since amalgamated with the St. Katharine’s and Victoria Docks, amounted on the 1st January, 1873, to 8,809,872l. The report of the Company states that “the number of loaded ships from foreign ports which entered the docks during the six months ending the 31st of December last, was 746, measuring 519,359 tons, and for the corresponding period in 1871, 759 ships, measuring 526,931 tons The quantity of goods landed in the docks during the past six months was 294,462 tons, and for the corresponding period in 1871, 285,854 tons. The stock of goods in the warehouses of the docks on the 31st of December last was 347,696 tons, and at the same period in 1871, 338,436 tons.”