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  'Company to make an Alteration in the Line of the said Railway, and for amending and enlarging the Powers and Provisions of the several Acts relating thereto.' 

By this act the line was varied again, so as to pass from Oldfield Road across Ordsall Lane and the River Irwell to Water Street, instead of passing over the Bolton, Bury and Manchester Canal to Irwell Street, near the New Bailey Prison; and the proprietors were authorized to build bridges over the Irwell and Water Street in Manchester. The estimate for this part of the line, abandoned for the one substituted by this act, was £11,802, of which £10,216, 16s. was for land purchased. Mr. George Stevenson calculated the expenses of the present line to be £10,229, l0s. in which sum £500 is considered as two years' rent of the land on the line, which, being already contracted for at an annual chief rent, would not be paid for in a gross sum; and the cost of building the bridges at £9,000, leaving together a balance of £729, 10s. for contingent costs. In the former part of this description of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, we have quoted the carriage rates which the company are empowered to take.

In making the estimates of the cost of this work, no contemplation was had of the expense of forming an establishment for the carriage of goods; by this act, therefore, it is provided that a fund of £127,500 shall be raised for that purpose, in shares of £25 each, either amongst themselves or by the admission of new members. The accounts of this department are to be kept separate, and separate dividends are to be made in respect thereof. The raising of this fund is not to prejudice the power of borrowing money for completing the railroad, granted by the first act. The length of the deviated line, as stated by Mr. G. Stevenson, and Mr. Joseph Lock his assistant, according to the plan adopted by the act of 1828, is eleven miles and nine hundred and seventy yards, and the estimate of the deviation £167,009, 4s. 4d.

The whole length of the railway, including the tunnel under Liverpool, is thirty miles and three quarters, in which distance there are three inclined planes, viz, at Sutton, Rainhill and the tunnel at Liverpool. The rise at the tunnel is 110 feet in one thousand nine hundred and seventy yards; the next one thousand yards is level; then in five miles and one furlong, there is a fall of