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===Eventual dividends=== By the middle of the 19th century it proved possible to pay a small dividend, the debt to the Exchequer Bill Loan Commission having been repaid with the help of a loan of Β£60,000 from the [[Pelican Life Assurance Company]].<ref name=hadfield348/> In 1871 the last of the debts incurred in the course of funding the canal, including the Pelican loan, were paid off.<ref name=hadfield351>Hadfield (1969), p.351</ref>
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