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slide dues

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a charge made for running timber down a slide (def. la).

See: slidage(def. 2),slide(def. 1a)

Quotations

1846

[He] recommends another boom beeing thrown across the River at the Mouth of the Trent to insure also collection of the Slide dues.

1933

Along the larger streams many of the slides were constructed by the government and a small charge was made for their use; in 1861, for example, the "slide dues" collected in Canada amounted to $55,546.