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to exceed two {hillings and six-pence per ton, and the fame may bepaid for certain kinds of commodities mentioned ; and no higher dutyto be taken upon the navigation than is authorised by the former acts.-s No toll to be taken for manure, or for stones to repair the highways.The duke to make weirs before the boats pass through the locks. Thenext clause directs, that drains, &c. shall be made into the canal to con-vey the water from the lands adjoining, and in what manner they shallbe maintained. The next empowers bodies politic, &c. to fell or con-vey in exchange lands for the use of the navigation. Trees not to beplanted, nor buildings erected, on towing-paths, except as excepted,without consent. The next clause empowers owners of lands near thenavigation to make wharfs, quays, &c. on their own lands. The nextlimits the. breadth of the canal and towing-paths, as in the first act.No more than six shillings per ton to be taken for the carriage of goodsbetween Manchester and Liverpool. Lands to revert to the originalproprietors, if the navigation is not made through them in ten years,or if made and discontinued five years. The powers of the former actextended to this. The works not to be carried through Lord Stam-ford’s park without his consent, nor nearer the house of the Rev. Mr.Halstead, in Lym, than fifty yards. In an action in any court on thisact, no effoign, protection, &c. &c. nor more than one imparlanceshall be allowed, and the act to be deemed a public act.

By the above abstracts, it will appear how cautiously the legislatureguarded against [the infringements of public or private rights, or tres-passing upon private property. The acts are explicit, and full provi-sion is made against any difference that could at first, or may hereafterarise between the duke and other persons concerned.

The above navigation is more than twenty-nine miles in length :it falls ninety-five feet, and was finished in five years. The utility andprofits of it were soon perceived by a discerning and trading people, anda number of applications immediately made to parliament for different

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