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CALDER AND HEBBLE NAVIGATION.

TONNAGE RATES.
And so in proportion for any shorter Distance.

EXEMPTION FROM TOLL.
Stones, Timber, Gravel, Sand, or other Materials, for the use of the Mills within the Limits of this Line of Navigation.

Soaper's Waste, Dung, and all Sorts of Manure, except Lime or Limestone.

Coal, under this Act, is prohibited from being carried down the Stream towards Wakefield, (except for the Use of the Vessels navigating the same) under the Penalty of £50, one-half to the King, the other Moiety to the Person who sues for the same.

Considerable damage having been done to this navigation by a great flood, which occurred in the night between the 7th and 8th October, 1767, and a total stop being put to the navigation, application was made in the following year to parliament, by the parties who had furnished the funds for constructing the navigation, and they obtained an act, entitled,  'An Act for extending the Navigation of the River Calder to Salterhebble Bridge, and to Sowerby Bridge, in the county of York, and for repealing an Act for that Purpose;'  in the preamble of which, after reciting the title of the original act, is the following statement of the reason for this measure;-

"And whereas the commissioners appointed for carrying the said act into execution, have borrowed of several persons considerable sums of money, which they have laid out for the purposes aforesaid, and great advantages arising therefrom have been already experienced: and whereas, before such navigation was completed, and all the necessary works for the defence and security of the cuts, locks and other works were perfected, such of the works as were then made, were, by the violence of repeated floods, destroyed or very greatly damaged, and the navigation is ruined so far as to be no longer passable for any kind of vessels from Wakefield to Brooksmouth, or from Brooksmouth to Salterhebble Bridge: and, whereas, the said commissioners cannot raise money to make the same good again, no person being willing to lend any, under the present circumstances, upon such security as they are empowered to give by virtue of