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OxfordCanal, toAmend.

The clause in 26 Geo. III. restraining any greater dividendsthan four per cent. until certain part of the money borrowedshall be paid off: or than five per cent. until all the moneyborrowed shall be paid off, is repealed ; provided that no divi-dend be made until the interest due on all the money bor-rowed, up to the next preceding half year, has been fullypaid and discharged : together with other clauses of local im-port only.

Peak ForestCanal.

PEAK FOREST CANAL.

Æi Account of a Canal from AJhton-under-Lyne , in the Countyof'Chef er, to Chapel Milton , in the County of Derby ; witha rail way to L,oad's Know I, within Peak Pores. 34 Geo.III. CL 2 6 .

THIS canal joins the Astiton and Oldham Canal on thesouth side of the town of Astiton, and crossing the river Tame,passes Denton, Chad Kirk, Maple Chapel, Difley, and arrivesat Whaley Bridge, from whence a rail road goes by Chapel inle Frith, to Load’s Knowl, in the Peak Forest; the canal fromChad Kirk runs parallel with, and on the western side of theriver Goyt. The length of this canal is about fifteen miles,and the rail way about six miles.

The proprietors are incorporated under the name of “ The" Company of Proprietors of the Peak Pores Canal withthe customary powers for making the canal and rail way ; al-lowing twenty-four yards of ground in breadth for the canal,&c. and not to deviate more than one hundred yards from

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