3 Canal companies may provide boats and power for hauling and tracking vessels of other persons.U.K.
It shall also be lawful for any such company, trustees, or undertakers to purchase and provide and use boats and other vessels, and also horses, steam or other power, and machinery, for hauling, tracking, and towing upon their own canals, rivers, or navigations, or upon any other canals, rivers, or navigations communicating therewith, either directly or by means of any intermediate canal, river, or navigation, and to employ a sufficient number of competent persons for those purposes, and to demand and receive for the use of such boats, and for such hauling, tracking, or towing, such reasonable hire or remuneration as shall be fixed by the respective committees, directors, or managers of such canals or navigations, or as shall be agreed upon between them and any person desiring the use of any such boats or vessels, or requiring such hauling, tracking, or towing.