The Express.
London, England, 1847-12-03 00:00:00

nom pahory purchase of the lands therein referred to, can be
lawfally exercised, and whereas it is expedient that in cer-
tain eases further time be granted for the purposes men-
gonad, it is now proposed to enact that companies may
apply to the coninusdoners of railways for an extension of
time at any time within two calendar months after the
peeing of this bill. The commissioners may direct ad-
, yertienneata of the appliestion, " and every such notice
I shall set forth within what time and in what manner any
person who thinks himself aggrieved by such proposed ex-
tension of time, and who &mares to object thereto, may bring
such objections before the said commissioners." By the
third clause its proposed to empower the railway commis-
sioners to extend, if they think fit, by warrant under their
seal, and signed by two or more of them, the period allowed
for the completion of a railway or works, or for the com-
pulsory purtheise of lands for that puepose, for such further
time as the said comminioners think fit, " not exceed-
ing the periods so allowed by such act or acts respect-
ively, and they may so extend such period' respectively,
either as to the whole of such railway or works and the
whole of the lands required for the same, or as to so
much of such railway or the works, or the lands con-
nected therewith, as shall be specified for that purpose
in such warrant." The acts of parliament in force are to
be construed with reference to the warrants of the com-
missioners. The act is not to revive expired powers.
within a day of granting the warrant the same te to he pub-
lished in the Gamete where the property is situate. Parties
aggrieved by the delay granted to have compensation. The
act is to be incorporated with the Bth and 9th of Victoria,
e. 18, 19. There is the following provision respecting the
postponement of contracts ; it requires to be given at
length :—" And be it enacted that no railway company
authorised by act of parliament to construct a railway or any
works connected with a railway, who have not before
the 27th of November, 1847, entered into any contract or
agreement for the execution of any works which they were
for the first time authorised by each act to:construct, shall
enter into any such contract or agreement within 12 calendar
months after the passing of this act, excepting always from
this enactment contracts and agreements for the construction
of any part of any railway which by the act authoriaing
the construction thereof is oubstitnted by way of deviation
from the line as originally proposed and authorised by some
previous act, and which is abandoned in favour of such
deviation, and also contracts and agreements for the con-
struction of such other works which the company shall be
authorised to proceed in constructing, by the consent of so
many of the shareholders as hold at least three-fourths of the
whole number of thane in the said railway, such consent to
be signified in writing under their hands respectively within
six weeks after the passing of this act, and all contracts and
agreements entered into in contravention of this enactment
shall be utterly void and of none effect; and a certificate of
such consent having been duly given within the time afore-
said, under the hand of the chairman or two of the directors
of the company, and countersigned in each case by the se-
cretary of the company, shall be deposited in the office of the
commissioners of railways, and such certificate, or a copy
thereof, certified under the seal of the said commissioners to
be is true copy, 'hall be received as evidence in all court',
and before all justices and others, that such consent was duly
given within the time aforesaid." The bill concludes with
the usual provision to amend or repeal the proposed set.