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 £18,425, empowered to borrow any sum not exceeding £10,000, on assignment of the property of the said undertaking, and of the rates authorized to be collected, repayable with interest.

TONNAGE RATES.
The period allowed by the act for the execution of this railway is five years; after that time the power to cease, excepting on that part of the railway which may have been completed. Abundance of coal and ironstone are worked in the immediate neighbourhood of this railroad, by which, by the Monkland Canal, and the Garnkirk and Glasgow Railroad, ready communications are opened with the populous city of Glasgow, which is at the distance of only fifteen miles. 

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BARNSLEY CANAL.
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 * 33 George III. Cap. 110, Royal Assent 3rd June, 1793.
 * 46 George III. Cap. 13, Royal Assent 28th March, 1808.

This canal commences from the River Calder (the Aire and Calder Navigation) three quarters of a mile below Wakefield Bridge, and about three-eighths of a mile below the junction of the Calder and Hebble Navigation, at Fall Ing Lock, with the above-mentioned navigation; from thence, proceeding in a southerly direction, it passes Walton Hall, the seat of the ancient family of the Watertons, to which place there is a rise, from the Calder, of 117 feet, by fifteen locks, in the distance of two miles and three quarters. From Walton Hall the canal is level through Haw Park Wood, where there is a feeder, communicating with Hiendley Reservoir, which reservoir was made expressly for the purpose of supplying this canal. This is situate half-a-mile to the eastward, and originally occupied eighty acres, but the head of the reservoir has since been raised 4 feet, and it now covers a surface of one hundred and twenty-seven acres, the greatest depth being 40 feet. A powerful engine is erected here for the purpose of lifting water