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

DORSET CENTRAL RAILWAY.

(Abandonment of Railways; Construction of new Rail-
ways; Reduction of and Provisions as to (apital,
Ste.; Amendment of certain Provisions; Powers to
London and South Western, Salisbury and Yeovil,
and Somerset Central Railway Companies to Sub-
scribe, to. and to make Working Arrangements;
Powers to Somerset Central Railway Company to
appoint Directors of Company; Powers to Somerset
Central Railway Company to run over new Lines;
Running Powers over Somerset Central Railways;
Provisions as to Transmission, ka. of Traffic; Amend-
ment of Acts).
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That
application is intended to be made to Parliament,
in the next Session, for an Act to alter, amend, sail
enlarge, and to repeal some of the powers and provisions
"Theof Dorset Central Railway Act, 1857," or some
part or parts thereof, or otherwise to repeal the said
Act, and to consolidate all or some of the proviiions
thereof and of the said intended Act into one Act :
And it is proposed by the said intended Act to apply
for powers to enable the Dorset Central Railway Com-
pany to abandon and relinquish the construction of the
additional Railways as authorised by " The Dorset
Central Railway Act, 1857," and therein referred to as
Railway No. 1, Railway No. 2, Railway No. 3, Railway
No. 4, and Railway No. 5, and to empower the said
Company to make and maintain the Railways and works,
and to effect the objects following, or some or one of
them (that is to say):
To make and maintain, in substitution of the several
Railways Noe. 1,2, and 3, so proposed to be abandoned
as aforesaid, • Railway commencing in the parish of
Blandford Saint Mary, in the county of Dorset, by •
junction with the line of the said Company, referred to
in the said recited Act as the First Section of The
Dorset Central Railway, and now in course of construc-
tion at • point in • piece of land belonging to the said
Company (formerly forming part of • field numbered 3,
in that parish, on the plans deposited in respect of "The
Dorset Central Railway Act, 1857," with the clerk of the
peace for the county of Dorset, at his office at Sherborne,
in the month of November, one thousand eight hundred
and fifty-six,) and terminating in the hamlet of Wyke
Chiunpflower, in the parish of Bruton, in the county of
Somerset, by •jiinction with the authorised line of the
Somerset Central Railway (Glastonbury to Bruton) now
in course of construction, at a point in a piece of land
belonging to and in the occupation of the Somerset
Central Railway Company, or belonging to and in the
occupation of john Bicknell Mullins (formerly forming
part of a field numbered 27 in that parish on the plans
deposited in respect of the said last-mentioned Act with
the clerk of the peace for the county of Somerset, at his
office at Wells, in the said month of November, one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six), together with all
proper stations, approaches, roads, and other works and
conveniences connected therewith ; which said intended
Railway and works will be made or pass from, in,
through, or into the several parishes, townships, and
extra-parochial and other places following, or some of
them (that is to say) : Blandford Saint Mary, Langton,
Long Blandfurd, Blandfuril Forum, Phoperne,Piinperne
Warnership, Durweston, Stourpaine otherwise Mower-
paine, Shilling Okeford alias Shillinptone, alias Okeford
Hanford, Shilling alias Shillingstone. Beer alias Beer
Marsh, Ohatortl litzpain, Okeford Shilling or Shilling.

Also to make and maintain the Railways following, or
some or one of them, or some part or parts thereof,
together with all proper stations, roads approaches,
works, and conveniences connected therewith respec-
tively (that is to say):
Railway, No. I.—A Railway (hereinafter referred to
as Railway No. Doominencing in the parish of Canford
Magna, in the said county of Dorset, by a junction with
the said First Section of the Dorset Central Railway
now in course of construction, at • point in a piece of
land belonging to and in the occupation of the said Coin-
pony (formerly forming part of a field numbered 9 in
that parish on the plans deposited in respect of the Act
authorising the said First Section with the clerk of the
peace for the county of Dorset at his office at Sherborne,
an the month of November, 11155), and terminating in the
said parish by a junction with the line of the London
and Mouth Western Railway, at • point on such line
seventeen chains, or thereabouts, westward of the point
where such line crosses on the level the road or highway
leading from Wimbome to Canford Magna at a place
called Oakley, and which said Railway No. 1 will be
made wholly in the said parish of Canford Magna, in the
said county of Dorset:
Railway No. 2.—A Railway (hereinafter referred to as
Railway No. 2) commencing in the said parish of Can-
ford Magna, in the said county of Dorset, by a junction
with the said First Section of the Lomat Central Rail-
way, at the point where Railway No. 1 is intended to
commence, and terminating in the parish of St. James,
in the town and county of Poole, within the county of
Dorset, in or near • garden belonging to Sir Ivor Rem-tie
Guest, baninet, and in the occupation of Robert White,
and adjoining a certain street or highway in Poole afore-
said, called or known by the name of "The Parade,"
and which said Railway No. 2 will be made, or pass
from, in, through, or into the several parishes, town-
ships, extra-parochial, and other places following, or
sonic of them (that is to say): Canford Magna, Corfe
Mullen and Lytchett Minster in the county of Dorset,
and Canford Magna, Longfieet, and Saint James,
in the town and county of Poole, within the county of
Dorset:

Railway No. 3.—A Railway (hereinafter referred to
as Railway No. 3) commencing in the said parish of St.
James, at the point where Railway No. 2 is intended to
terminate as hereinbefore mentioned, and terminating
in the said pariah of Canford Magna in the county of
IMrset, at a point in a field or plantation, which point
is contiguous to and on the north side of • yard or cur-
tilage belonging to an inn called "The Woodman's
Tavern," and which field or plantation belongs to and is
in the occupation of George Durrant, and is numbered
1,0114 on the map annexed to the award of the Commis.
Gimlets for inclosing lands in the parish of Canford
Magna and town and county of Poole, and which award
is deposited with the clerk of the peace fur the county of
Dorset, at his office at Sherborne in the said county,
which said Railway No. 3 will pass from, through, or
into the several parishes or other places following, or
sonic of them : (that is to say), Saint James, Parkstone,
Longfieet. Kinaon, and Canford Magna, in the town and
county of Poole, within the county of Dorset and Canton'
Magna, in the county of Dorset:
Railway /so. 4.—A Railway (hereinafter referred toss
Railway No. 4) commencing in the parish of Canford
Magna in the county of Dorset, by a junction with the
line of the London and South Western Railway at a
point on such line twenty chains or thereabout' east-
ward of the bridge carrying the turnpike rood leading
from Curie Mullen to Poole, over the said line, and ter-
minating in the said pariah of Canford Magna, in the
county of Dorset, by • junction with the said intended
Railway No. 2, in a field belonging to Sir Ivor Bertie
Guest, baronet, and in the occupation of William Grant,
and which field adjoins an allotment called "The Tur-
bary Allotment," for Canford Magna, and which said
Railway No. 4 will be situate wholly in the said parish
of Cantor' Magna, in the county of Dorset:
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to
take powers to effect all or some of the objects and pur-
poses following (that is to say) :
To repeal or alter all Clauses and provisions of the
said "Dorset Central Railway Act, 1857," relating to
the several additional Railways so proposed to be aban-
doned, and to vary, amend, cancel, or extinguish all con-
tracts, agreenients, and arrangements, and all other
rights and privileges, liabilities, or obligations connected
therewith :

To make lateral deviation' from the lines of the said
intended Railways and works to the extent and within
the linsita described upon the plans hereinafter mention-
ed, or as may be prescribed by and provided for in the
said intended Act:
To cross, stop up, alter, or divert, whether tempera-
rily or permanently, all such turnpike and other roads
and highways, streets, Railways, tramways, aqueducts,
canals, towing-paths, streams, drains, pipes, rivers,
navigations, and other works within the aforesaid
parishes, townships, and extra-parochial or other places
or any of them, as it may be necessary to cross,
stop up, alter, or divert by reason of the construction of
the said Railways and works, or any or either of
them :

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To purchase, by compulsion or otherwise, lands,
houses, and licreditaniects, for the purposes of the said
intended Railways and works, or any or either of than,
and to alter, vary, or extinguish all existing rights and
privileges connected with such and,, houses, and here-
ditamente, or which would in any manner impede or
interfere with the objects and purposes of the intended
Act, and to confer, vary, or extinguish, other rights and
privileges:
To levy tolls, rates, and duties for or in respect of the
use of the said intended Railways and works, or any or
either of them, and to alter, vary, or extinguish existing
tolls, rates, and duties, and to confer, vary, or extin-
guish exemptions from the payment of tolls, rates, and
duties:

To enable the said Dorset Central Railway Company
to reduce and limit the amount of capital which they
are by the said Dorset Central Railway Act, Irts7,
authorised to raise by sham, and their powers of bor-
rowing, 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, application, and dis-
tribution of the shares and capital and borrowing
powers of the Company, and with reference to the for-
feiture of share* in arm-ear, the acceptance of transfers or
surrenders f shares in arrear, and the cancelling and
re-issue of shares forfeited, surrendered, or transferred.
and to enable the Company to make such other arrange-
ments with reference to any of such objects as shall be
necessary or expedient: _

To einpower. the said Dorset Central Railway Com-
pany to apply to the purposes of the said intended Act,
or some of them, any foods or capital authorised to be
raised by them under their existing Act, or which now
or hereafter may belong to them, or may be under the
control of their directors, and also to raise, if necessary,
additional capital for such purpose or purposes, either by
borrowing on mortgage or bunt, or by the creation of
new or additional shares or stock, or by any or either
of such mean.. of such arl amount, in such number, and
with such preference or priority as to interest, dividends,
or otherwise, and on such terms and conditions, and
with such special rights and privileges, and in such man-
ner, as Parliament shall authorise or direct, 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 so to be created, or some of
them, shall form part of the general capital of the Com-
pany, and shall bear like rateable dividend, and shall
confer on the holders thereof like privileges in other
respects as any other ordinary shares in the general
capital of the Company, or that such shares so to be
created as aforesaid, or ionic of thew, shall constitute
a separate stock or separate stocks distinct from the
other shares and stock in the said Dorset Central Rail-
way Company; and that the receipts and expenditure
of the said intended Railways and works shall, as re-
gards both capital and revenue 'Lemon* be kept dis-
tinct and separate from those applicable to the under-
taking of the said Company 5550 W or as by the said in-
tended Act to he authorised ; and that the profits or
some part thereof, derived from the said intended Rail-
ways and works shall be set apart fcr the persons con-
tributing the funds for the formation thereof, and others
interested therein :

To amend the provisions 01 "The Dorset Central
Railway .tct, 1857,' relative to the sum deposited in the
Court of Chancery, as therein mentioned, so as to adapt
the Sallie, and the bond given ill pommies thereof and
deposited with the Solicitor of the Lords of the Tres.
sury, to the reduced capital and altered or new works of
the Company :
And provision will be made in the said intended Act
for effecting the objects following, or soine or one of
them, (that is to s!ty)

To. empower the London and South Western. the
Salisbury and Yeovil, and the Somerset Central Rail-
way companies, any or either of them, to contribute
funds towards the construction, use, and enaintenuice of
the intended Railways and other works, or any or either
of thew, or some part or parts thereof, respootivisly, and

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To empower the Somerset Cei.tral Railway Company,
and all persons and corporations lawfully using their
Railways, their offioers and servants, to run over, work,
and use with their engines and carriages of every de-
scription, andlor the purpose 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 said intended Railways, and of the said
First Section, and the atations, works, watering places,
engines, sidings, machinery works, and conveniences
belonging thereto, or connected therewith respectively:
To empower the Dorset Central Railway Company,
and all persons and corporations lawfully wing their
Railways, as are now authorized, or as may by the
said intended Act be authorized, their officers and
servants, to run over, work, and use with their engines
aid 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 Railerays now or
hereafter belonging to, or authorised to be made by, the
Somerset Central Railway Company, and the stations,
works, watering places, engines, sidings, machinery,
works, and con vensencies belonging thereto, or connected
therewith respectively:
And provision will also he made in the said
intended Act for requiring the London and South
Western Railway, the Salisbury and Yeovil Railway,
and the Somerset Central Rail way Companies respectively
to grant all proper and reasonable facilities for the
transmission of, and to transmit upon and along their re-
spective Railways, or any part thereof, all traffic which
having passed over the said intended Railways
and the said First Section of the Dorset Cen-
tral Railway DOW in course of construction, or any or
either of them, 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 them for transmission along their own
Railways, or any part thereof, for the purpose
of being afterwards conveyed on and along the said in-
tended Railways and the said First Section of the said
Dorset Central Railway or any or either of them, or any
part thereof respectively, upon and subject to such rules
and regulations, and upon payment of such tolls, rates,
and charges, as shall, in case of disagreement, be settled
by arbitration or otherwise, or as inky be fluid and de-
termined in and by the said intended Act:
To amend or repeal (as far as may be necessary for
the pui pale or purposes of the said intended Act) all or
some of the powers and provisions of the several Acts
relating to the following Companies, or same of them
viz. The Local and Personal Acts relating to the London
and South Western Railway Company, viz. 4 and 5
Will. IV. cap. 88; 1 Viet. cap. TI; 1 and 2 Vice. cap.
27; 2 and 3 Viet. cap. 28; 4 and 5 Viet. caps. 1 and 3U;
7 and 8 Viet. ceps. 5,63, and 86 ; 8 and 9 Viet. ceps. 86,
88, 93, 107, 121, 165, 185, and 199; 9 and 10 Viet. caps.
129. 131, 173, 174, 175, 252, 355, 370, and 391 ; 10 and
11 Viet. cape. 57, 58, 88, 96, 97, 115, 145, 167, 243. 244,
249, 273, and 297; 11 and 12 Viet. cape. 75, 85, 87, 89,
125, and 157; 51 Geo. 111. cap. 196; 12 and 13 Viet.
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
Vict. cap. 188; 19 and 20 Viet. cap. 120; 20 and 21
Vict. cap. 136; 21 and 22 Vict. cape. 58,67.89, and 101'
and 22 and 23 Vict. caps. 31 and 44 : The Local and
Personal Acts relating to the Salisbury and Yeovil Rail-
way Company, viz.: 17 and 18 Viet. cat. 215, 18 and
19 Viet. cap. 62; and 20 and 21 Vict. cap. 121 ; and 21
and 22 Viet. caps. 67 and 89: and the Local and Per-
sonal Acts relating to the Somerset Central Railway
Company, namely: 18 and 19 Viet. cap. 182; 19 and
20 Vict. cap. 102; and V and V Viet. cap. 53 :
And also "Lord Rivers' Estate Act, 1857 : "
And Notice is hereby further given, That on or before
the Thirtieth day of November instant, maps, plans,
and sections, sliowiug the direction, line, and levels of
the said intended Railways and other works, and the
lands which may be taken for the purposes of the same,
together with • book of reference to such plans, contain-
ing the names of the owners or reputed owners, Magee'
or reputed lessees, and the occupiers of such lands, and
also a copy of this Notice as published in the London
Gazette, will be deposited for public inspection with the
clerk of the peace for the county of Dorset, at his office
at Sherborne, in the said county, and with the clerk of
the peace for the county of Somerset, at his office at
Wells, in the said county, and with the clerk of the
peace for the county of the town of Poole, at his office
at Poole; and that on or before the said Thirtieth day
of November a copy of so much of the maid plans, sections,
and book of reference as relates to each parish or t etre-
parochial place in or through which the said Railways
and other works are intended to be made, together with
a copy cf this Notice published as aforesaid, will be
deposited u follows, (that is to say,) in the ease of
parishes with the parish clerk of each such parish at his
residenoe, and in case of any extra-parochial plate with
the parish clerk of some pariah immediately adjoining
thereto at his residence:

And Notice is hereby further riven, That printed
copies of the said intended Ad will be deposited in the
Private Bill Office of the House of Commons on or before
the Twenty•third day of December in the present year.
Dated this Twelfth day of November, 1859.
H. AND W. TOOGOOD,
16, Paella/Near &reef,
Westniader. Solicitors for Me
Wattled Ace.
M. KEIIPAYELCH,
Poole.