The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-11-22 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, icc.,
Amendment of certain Provisions; Powers to Somerset
Central Railway Company to Subscribe, Ica., and ap-
point Directors ; Running Powens to that Company;
Running Powers over Somerset Central Railways; Pro-
visions as to Transmission, &c., of Traffic; Amend-
ment or Repeal of Acts.)

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 es
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. I, Railway No. 2, Railway No. 3. and Rail-
way No. h, or some part or parts thereof repetitively:
And at is also proposed by the said intended Act to
apply for powers to enable the Dorset Central Railway
Company to abandon and relinquish the construction of
the additional Railway, authorised to be node by the
said recited Act. and therein referred to as Railway No.
4, and to repos! at alter all clauses and provisions of the
said Act relatingo.. such additional Railway so proposed
to he 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, 11457," 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, applies
-
lion, and distribut of the shares and capital, and bor-
rowing powers of the Company, and with referencia to
the forfeiture of shares in wear, the acceptance of ,
transfers 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 shall be necessary or expedient :
To mummer 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 authorised to be raised by
them under their existing Act, or which now or here-
after may belong to thew, or may be under the control
of their directors, and also to make further provisions
for the regulation and for the augmentation of the
capaal 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 ally 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
Allan, as regards both capital and revenue accounts, be
kept distinct and separate from those applicable to other
part or parts of the undertaking of the said Company as
aloe authorised; and that the profits, or some part
thereof, derived from the said additional Railways and
works shall be set apart fur the persons contributing