On Friday and Saturday last a jury sat to adjudicate upon the sums to be paid for the houses situate in the Old Market Place, that are intended to be pulled down by the Commissioners for the purpose of widening that part of the street.
Mr. Edmund Taylor asked £2,650. This case was arranged without coming before the jury by the Commissioners paying Mr. Taylor £2,375 for the buildings and the loss of his business.
Mr. Samuel Taylor's case was also settled without a jury by the Commissioners paying him £750.
In both cases the Commissioners are to pay all expenses.
This was reported on the 8th of August 1847 in a Manchester paper, the Rochdale Observer didn't begin publication until 1856.
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