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Mill, is one mile and a half, with one hundred and four feetrife ; from thence to Cleg-hall, (two miles short of Rochdale)is five miles and a quarter, and is level, this is the head level;from thence to Lower Place, near Rochdale, is two miles,with sixty-two feet fall; from thence to Chaderton Brook,opposite Middleton, is four miles and a quarter, with onehundred and twenty feet fall; from thence to near Faijsworth,is two miles and three quarters, and is level; from thence tothe beginning of Manchester is four miles and a half, witheighty-one feet fall; from thence to the junction with theDuke’s canal, is one mile, with feventy-five feet and a halffall. The two branches are level.

This act of parliament, after several endeavours and modi-fications, was obtained in 1794, and incorporates the sub-scribers under the title of “ The Company of Proprietors ofthe Rochdale Canal” with customary powers to make the canalto join the Calder navigation at Halifax, and the duke ofBridgwater’s canal at Manchester. And as an indemnificationfor the expence which has been incurred on the wharfs, &c.belonging to the duke ; (the profits of which will be much re-duced by those of this canal) the Duke and his heirs are im-powered to build and maintain a lock at his expence, on theRochdale Canal, at or near the Castle Field, and is allowedto take there the following tolls :

For coal, stone, timber, goods, wares, &c. (except flags)which shall be conveyed from the Rochdale Canal into theDuke’s canal; or from the Duke’s canal into the RochdaleCanal, the sum of fourteen-pence per ton, and so in propor-tion for less than a ton.

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