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'WYCOMBE RAILWAY COMPANY.
NOTICE Is hereby given, that the NEXT GENERAL
MEETING of the Shareholders of this Company will be held
at the GREAT WF.STERN RAILWAY HOTEL, Paddington,
on SATURDAY. the 27th day of February instant, at Eleven
o'clock In the forenoon precisely, for the purpose of transacting
the ordinary business of the Company ; and the Books kept by
the Company for the Registration of the Transfer of Shares
will be dosed from the 17th day of February instant until after
the Meeting.
And Notice Is hereby also given, that the said Meeting will
afterwards be made Special for the purpose of considering a
proposition to be made by the Directors, empowering them to
issue Preference Shares to the amounts respectively authorised
by the Wycombe Railway Amendment Act, 1852, and the
Wycombe Railway (Extension) Act, 1857.
By order,
W. H. WILSON, Secretary.
Offices of the Company.
6, Victoria ,street, Westminster, Feb. 6, ISM

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