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342 any loss in the annual income of his canal, in consequence of this company's building of warehouses, wharfs, &c. such loss is to be made good by the Huddersfield Canal Company.

As many mills are upon the streams and brooks from which the reservoirs of the company are to be supplied, it is provided that all persons concerned shall have access to the company's works, and that damages done shall he immediately repaired; and as it is also proposed that a tunnel should be made on the summit level, under Pule Moss and Brunn Top, in the townships of Marsden and Saddleworth, whereby the waters in Brunn Clough and Red Brook Vallies may be diminished, such diminution shall be, from time to time, made up by water supplied to the streams running thereto, from the company's reservoirs on or above the summit level aforesaid. A lock not more than 8 feet wide, with a fall of not less than 6 feet, shall be made at the communication with Sir John Ramsden's Canal; and that part of his canal between his navigation warehouses and the Huddersfield Canal, shall be cleansed and kept navigable by the said company at their will and pleasure, should the said Sir John Ramsden, his heirs or assigns, fail or refuse so to do; and the said Sir John Ramsden is not to receive any tolls or rates for goods navigated from this canal to his warehouses. The provision respecting the supply of water to the streams in Brunn Clough and Pule Moss is necessary on account of the mills thereon.

If the interests of Sir John Ramsden, the Aire and Calder Proprietors, or the Calder and Hebble Navigation, should be injured by making, at any future time, a canal to the eastward, communicating with this or Sir John Ramsden's, full recompense is to be made to the injured parties by the Huddersfield Company, by authorizing them to receive all rates and tolls, in proportion to the length of such navigation and the tonnage thereon collected. In 1798 the part of this canal which lies between Huddersfield and Marsden was completed and opened; and also the part between Ashton-under-Lyne and Stayley Bridge; besides these, another part from Stayley Bridge towards the west end of the tunnel was navigable; but, owing to the very heavy expense incurred in the works of the tunnel, and the deficiency arising from many of the subscribers not being able to pay up their calls, the canal was