The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-11-15 00:00:00

DORSET CENTRAL RAILWAY.

(Extension of Time for completion of Works in respect
to certain Railways ; Abandonment of Railway,
Reduction of and Provisions as to Capital, &c.;
Amendment of certain Provisions; Powers to Somerset
Central Railway Company to Subscribe, and ap-
point Directors; Running Powers to that Company ;
Running Powers over Somerset Central Railways; Pro-
visions as to Tninsiniasion, Sm., of Traffic; Amend-
meat or Repeal of Acts.)
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That appli-
cation is intended to be made to Parliament in
the next Session for an Act to extend the periods respec-
tively limited by "The Dorset Central Railway Act,
1857," for the completion of the additional Railways as
now authorised to be made' and therein referred to as
Railway No. 1, Railway No. 2, Railway No. 3, and Rail.
way No. 5, or some part or parte thereof respectively:
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to
minty for powers to enable the Dorset Central Railway
Company to abandon and relinquish the construction of
the additional Railway, authorised to be ma'') by the
said recited Act, and therein referred to as Railway No.
4, and to repeal or alter all clauses and provisions of the
said Act relating to such additional Railway so proposed
to be abandoned, and to vary, amend, cancel, or extin-
guish, all contracts, agreements, and arrangements, and
all other rights and privileges, liabilities, or obligations
connected therewith:

And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to
apply for powers to enable the said Dorset Central
Railway Company to reduce and limit the amount of
capital which they are by "The Dorset Central Railway
Act, 1857," authorised to raise by shares, and their
powers of borrowing, and if need be to reduce or alter
the number and amount of the shares into which the
said capital is now divided, and to make new or further
provisions with reference to the arrangement, applica-
tion, and distribution of the shares and capital, and bor-
rowing powers of the Company, and with reference to
the forfeiture of shares in al rear, the acceptance of
!renders or surrenders of shares in arrear, and the can-
celling and re-issue of shares forfeited, surrendered, or
transferred, and to enable the Company to make such
other arrangements with reference to any of such objects
as shell be necessary or expedient:
To empower the said Dorset Central Railway Company
to apply to the purposes of the said intended Act, or some
of them, or to their undertaking as authorised by such
Act, any funds or capital authoruied to be raised by
them under their existing Act, or which now or here-
after may belong to them, or may be under the control
of their directors, and also to make further provisions
for the regulation and for the augmentation of the
capital of the said Company:
To provide that the shares created, or which the said
Company are or may be authorised to create for all or
any of the purposes of the said intended Act, or for all
or any of the purposes of the additional Railways au-
thorised by and referred to in the recited Act, shall
constitute a separate stock, or separate stocks, distinct
from the other shares and stock in the said Dorset Cen-
tral Railway Company; and that the receipts and ex-
penditure of the said additional Railways and works
shall, as regards both capital and revenue accounts, he
kept distinct and separate from those applicable to other
part or parts of the undertaking of the said Company as
now authorised; and that the prosts, or some part
thereof, derived from the said additional Railways and
works shall be act apart for tha persona contributing

And to confer, vary, or extinguish other rights and
privileges :
And to empower the Somerset Central Railway Com-
pany, and all persons and corporationi lawfully using
their Railways, timer °Moen and servants, to run over,
work, and use with their engines and carriages, of every
description, and for the purposes of their traffic of all
kinds, upon such terms as (in default of agreement)
shall be settled by the Board of Trade or by arbitration,
all or any part of the Railways now or hereafter belong-
ing to or authorised to be wade by the Dorset Central
Railway Company, and the stations, works, watering
plaids, engines, siding., machinery, works, and con-
veniences belonging thereto or connected therewith re-
spectively :
And to empower the Dorset Central Railway Com-
pany, and all persons and corporations lawfully using
their Railways as are now authorised, or as may by the
said intended Act be authorised, their officers and ser-
vants, to run over, work, and use with their engines and
carriages of every description, and for the purposes of
their traffic of all kinds, upon such terms as (in default
of agreement) shall be settled by the Board of Trade or
by arbitration, all or any part of tl.e Railways now or
hereafter belonging to or authorized to be made by the
Somerset Central Railway Company, and the stations,
works, watering-places, engines, sidings, machinery,
works, and conveniences belonging thereto, or con-
connected therewith respectively.
And provision will also be made in the said intended
Act for requiring the London and South Western Rail-
way, the Salisbury and Yeovil Railway, and the Somer-
set Central Railway Companies respectively to grant
all proper and reasonable facilities for the transmission
of, and to transmit upon and along their respective
Railways, or any part thereof, all traffic which having
passed over the Railways now or hereafter belonging to,
or authorised to be made by, the Dorset Central Railway
Company, or any or either of thew, or any part thereof
respectively, may be tendered to them respectively for
transmission along their own Railways or any part
thereof, or which may be tendered to theua for trans-
minion along their own Railways, or any part thereof,
for the purpose of being afterwards conveyed on and
along the said Railways now or hereafter belonging to,
or authorised to be made by, the Dorset Central Railway
Company, or any or either of them, or any part thereof
respectively, upon and subject to such rules and regula-
tions, and upon payment of such tolls, rates, and charges
as shall, in case of disagreement, be settled by arbitra-
tion or otherwise, or as may be fixed and determined in
and by the said intended Act
And it is also intended by the said Act to amend or
repeal (as far as may be necessary for the purpose or
purposes of the said intended Act) all or some of the
powers and provisions of the several Acts following re-
lating to the following Companies (that is to say) : local
and personal Ada relating to the London and South
Western Railway Company, 4 and 5 Will. IV. cap. 88;
1 Viet. cap. 71; land 2 Via cop. 27; 2 and:; Vic. cap.
28; 4 and 5 Viet. caps. 1 and 39; 7 and 8 Viet. caps.
5, 63, and 86; and 9 Viet. cape. 86, 1111, W 3, 107, 121,
165, 185, and 199; 9 and 10 Viet. cape. 129. 131, 173,
174, 175, 252, 35.5. 370. and 391; 10 and 11 Viet, caps.
57. 58, 88, 96, 97, 115, 145, 167, 243, 244, 249, 273, and
297; 11 and 12 Viet. cape. 75, 86. 87, 89, 125, and 157;
51 Geo. 111. cap. 196; 12 and 13 Vict. caps. 33 and 34-
13 and 14 Viet. cap. 24; 14 and 15 Viet. cap. 83; 16
and 17 Viet. cap. 164; 18 and 19 Viet. cap. 188; 19 and
20 Viet. cap. 120-20 and 21 Viet. cap. 136; 21 and 22
Viet. cape. 58, 6T„89 and 101 • and 22 and Z 3 Vict.
caps. 31 and 44; local and personal Acts relating to the
Salisbury end Yeovil Railway Company, viz. 17 and 18
Viet. cap, 215 ; 18 and 19 Viet. cap. 62; and 20 and 21
Viet. cap. 121 ; and 21 and 22 Viet. caps. 67 and 89 : and
local and personal Ads relating to the Somerset
Central Railway Company, namely, 18 and 19 Viet.
cap. le2 ; 19 and 20 Viet. cap, 102; and 22 and 23 Viet.
cap. 56:
And also " Lord Rivers' Estate Act, 1657:"
And it is also intended by the said Act to alter,
amend, and enlarge and to repeal some of the powers
and provisions of , • The Dorset Central Railway Act,
1857," or some part or parts thereof respectively, or
otherwise to repeal the said Ad, and to consolidate all
or some of the provisions thereof and of the said in-
tended Ad into one Act:

And notioe is hereby further given, That printed
copies of the said intended Act will on or before the
Twenty-third day of December, one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-nine, be deposited in the Private Bill
Office of the House of Commons.

Dated this Fourteenth day of November, one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-nine.

H. AND W. TOOGOOD,
16, Parham's! Seeeet, &helloes foe the
Weigniager,
M. KEMP-WELCH, loam:led Act.
Poole.