The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-11-29 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH AND PORTLAND
RAILWAY.

(lueorporatiou of Company—Construction of Railway
from Weymouth to Portland—Powers for the ()mat
Weateni and London and South Westeni Railway
Companies to subscribe, and to apply awl rabic
Capital—Workiiic arrangements with those Cum-
panies—Ainendment or Repeal of Acts.)

OTICE IS HEItEIIY GIVEN, that appli.
c....tion is intended to be made to Parliament in
the ensuing Session for an Act to incorporate a C -
puny for the purpose of making and maintaining a Rail-
way, with all proper approaches, stations, and other
works and conveniences connected therewith, that is to
say,
A Railway co 11111 l encing in the parish of Melcombe
Regis, in the County of Dorset, by a Junction with th •
MARI line of the Wilts. Somerset, and Weymouth Rail-
way, belonging to the Great Western Railway Company,
at or near a point on such main line near the North
end of the Passenger Station at Weymouth, of such
last mentioned Railway, and terminating in the Island
and Parish of Portland,o, the said County of Dorset, at
or near a point on Chesil Rank, and opposite to an Inn
called or known by the name of the " Victoria Lodge,"
and which intended Railway and Works will pass, or
be made from, into and through, or be situate within
the several parishes, townships, and extra•parochial,
and other places following, or some of them, that is to
say, Radipole, Melcombe Regis, Weymouth, Wyke
Regis, and Portland, in the said County of Dorset.
And it is also intended by the said, Act to confer
upon the said Company all necessary powers for effect-
ing the purposes following, (that is to asy)—
To stop up, alter, divert, cross, or break up, or other-
wise interfere with, either temporarily or permanently,
any turnpikes or other roads, highways footpaths,
streets, railways, tramways, canals, aqueducts, streams,
ferries, rivers, navigation., sewers, drains, pipes, and
watercourses within the before-named parishes, town-
shipi, extra-parochial and other places, or any of them,
which it may be necessary or desirable to stop up, alter,
divert, cross, or break up, or otherwise interfere with
for any of the purposes of the intended Railway and
Works.
To make lateral deviations from the Line of the said
intended Railway and Works to the extent and within
the limits defined upon the I'lans herein after turf-
tioned, and to punh we by compulsion or otherwise,
lands, houses, hereditament,, and other property, rights,
and privileges, for the purposes of the intended under-
taking, or any part or parts thereof, and to vary or ex-
tinguish any rights or privileges connected with such
lands, houses, and hereditaments, awl other property.
To levy tolls, rates, and duties upon, or in respect of,
the use of the intended Railway, and other Works, and
to alter existing tolls, rates, and duties, and to confer,
vary, or extinguish exemption from the payment of
rates, and duties, and to confer, vary, or extinguish
other rights and privileges.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act, to
authorize the Great Western and the Loudon and South-
Western Railway Companies, or either of them, to sub-
scribe and contribute funds towards the itaid under-
taking, or any part thereof, and to take and hold shares
in the said undertaking, or ally part thereof, and to apply
any capital or funds, now or hereafter belonging to Upon
respectively, or under the control of their respective Di- ,
rectors, or to raise additional capital by the creation of
new Niiams, either with or without preference or priority,
in payanent of interest or dividend, or by borrowing on
mortgage or bond, for the purposes of the said under-
taking, or any of the..,, and to ensble the said Great
We-tern and the Isinflon and South Western Railway
• panics, or either .4 them, to vote at ineedings of the
Company so to be incorporated as aforesaid, and to
appoint Dim:tont of that Company.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to
enable the Company to be thereby incorts.ratol, and ,
the Great Western and the London and South-IS estern
Railway Compsnies, or either of them, or any other
person or persons to enter into and carry into effect
such contracts and arrangements', on such terns and
conditions, and subject to such restrictions as okay be
or may hate been mutually agreed upon by, or on
behalf of, those C panics, with reference to the
working and use of the said intended Railway, the
conduct, management, and directien of the traffic, or
any portion of the traffic upon the 13111 C or any other
parts thereof respectively, and the division and appor-
tionment of such traffic, and the tolls, rates, and charges
arising therefrom, between and amongst the said
Companies, or other person or perons, or any or either
of them, and for enabling the sail intended Company
and the said before-mentioned Companies, or either of
them, or other person or persons an af 'resold, to appoint
a joint oolumittee for carrying into effect any such
contracts or arrangements, and to extrciso by mums of