Savile's notes on Aire and Calder navigation - basis of speech in Commons or preparatory...

Savile's notes on Aire and Calder navigation - basis of speech in Commons or preparatory to Parliamentary act, includes observations as "Smeaton's interest as proprietor absolutely the same as the interest of the whole Calder branch and West Country. Mr. Yorks and Mr. Townly lessees of Duke of Mountayne's coal works ..... There is a clause Liverpool act that no water shall be taken from mills without their consent. Examine Mr. Y. to this. Whatever mills there may be below, there are no mills above. But probably there are mills below ..."