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<DATE>2014-08-12</DATE>
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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B140637.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>THE CASE For Making the Rivers AIRE and CALDER, in the County of YORK, Navigable to LEEDS and WAKEFIELD.</HEAD>
<P>THAT there now is, and for many Years pa&s;t has been, a very great Trade carried on in the Manufacture of Woollen Cloth, and other Merchandizes and Commodities, from the Towns of <HI>Leeds</HI> and <HI>Wakefield, Hallifax, Ea|land, Keighley, Bur&s;tal, Bradford Bingley, Otley, Skipton, Huddersfield, Penin&s;ton, Houley, Horbury, Almondbury, Dewsbury, Mirfield,</HI> and many other Towns in the We&s;t Riding of the County of <HI>York,</HI> and <HI>Ratchdale</HI> and <HI>Colne</HI> in the County of <HI>Lanca&s;ter;</HI> which Trade is very Advantageous to His Maje&s;ty's Cu&s;toms, and very Beneficial to His Maje&s;ty's Subjects, many Thou&s;ands of Families being thereby maintained, who without it are not able to &s;ub&s;i&s;t.</P>
<P>BUT, by rea&s;on the Traders from the &s;aid Places are forced to carry their Com|modities, &s;ome Twenty, &s;ome Thirty, and others Forty Miles, before they come to a Navigable River, which is extreamly Expen&s;ive, and attended with very great Damages to the Goods &s;ent down. This Trade is much hindred, and the High-ways mightily damaged, and the Country put to a great Expence to Repair the &s;ame, and notwith&s;tanding &s;uch Repairs, yet the Ways are made altogether impa&s;&s;able in Winter-time for ordinary Country Carts and Carriages, by rea&s;on of the great number of Carriages, to the great Prejudice of that Country.</P>
<P>THAT the making of the&s;e Rivers Navigable, which are propo&s;ed to be done no otherwi&s;e than by a Voluntary Contribution of the Neighbouring Towns, Gentle|men and Freeholders, will not only mightily Encourage and Increa&s;e Trade in the Northern Parts, and e&s;pecially that of the Woollen Manufacture, by a more ea&s;ie and cheap conveyance of Wooll, and all other Commodities that are made u&s;e of in the &s;aid Manufacture.</P>
<P>BUT will al&s;o pre&s;erve the High-ways, and keep them from being at any time impa&s;&s;able, and &s;ave much Money laid out in Repairing the &s;ame.</P>
<P>IT will likewi&s;e advance His Maje&s;ty's Cu&s;toms, and increa&s;e Watermen and Boat|men, and con&s;equently Seamen.</P>
<P>IT will Employ a great many Per&s;ons in making the &s;ame Navigable, and when made, a great number of Men, Boats, and Hor&s;es.</P>
<P>WHEREFORE it is Humbly hoped, That this Undertaking will have the A&s;&s;i&s;tance and Encouragement of this Honourable Hou&s;e, for the Effecting of &s;o good a Work, and which &s;o highly conduces to the Benefit of the Publick; And to the removing of tho&s;e great Inconveniencies which the &s;aid Country and Traders in the Woollen Manufacture labour under, by rea&s;on of their great Di&s;tance from a Navigable River.</P>
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