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London, England, 1855-11-23 00:00:00

IMPERIAL HOTEL COMPANY.
Incorporation of Company.--Power to Pur-
chase and hold Lan 'a and Houses, and to make certain Im-
provements in the neighbourhood jif Charing-cross.
Application will be made to Parliament in the ensuing Sec-
tion for an Act to incorporate a Company for the purpose of
erecting and maintaining an Hotel, with all necessary ways
and approaches thereto ; and, in order to carry out such °b-
eets and purposes, to enable such Company to take and hold,
pull down, and remove certain buildings, houses, and tene-
ments situate in the parish of Saint Martin's-in-the-Fields,
Westminster, in the county of Middlesex, within the area,
limits, or bounds hereinafter described, (that is to say) on
the north by the southern side of Leicester-square, on
the south by the northern side of Trafalgar-square,
on the east by the western side of Saiut Martin's-lane, and
on the west by the eastern side of the Haymarket, and to appro-
priate the site of the said buildings, lands, and tenements, and
all or any part of the ground lying within the area, limits, or
bounds hereinbeforo described, and whether now used as
streets, yards, or vacant ground, or otherwise, as a site for
the erection thereon of an Hotel, with all such buildings as
may be necessary to enable the Company to carry on their
undertaking. Also to empower the Company to stop up any
roads, streets, ways, paths, or passages, public or private,
which now lead into, across, or over the area hereinbefore
described. And in such Act powers will be contained for
the compulsory purchase of all such lands, buildings,
tenements, or hereditaments, as may be necessary
for carrying the purposes of the Company into effect,
and to vary or extinguish all rights and privileges in
any manner connected with the lands, tenements, or here-
ditaments proposed to be taken for the purposes aforesaid.
And it is also intended to empower the Company to carry
into effect such improvements in the streets, avenues, ways,
approaches, and passages within such limits as may be deemed
necessary.
And it is intended to incorporate with the proposed Act
(with such alterations and additions as may be necessary) the
Provisions of " The Companies' Clauses Consolidation Act,
1845," The Lands' Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," and
"The Towns' Improvement Clauses Act, 1647."
And it is intended to authorise the Company to take and
receive rates and rents for the use of the building, or build-
ings intended to be erected by the Company, or of any part
thereof, and to alter or extinguish existing rates or rents, and
to confer, vary, or extinguish exemptions from payment of
rates or rents, and to vary or extinguish all or any rights and
Privileges which would in any way prevent the carrying out
of their intended undertaking ; and to enable the Company
to contract for the sale or lease of their undertaking, or of
any part thereof, to any person or persons willing to purchase
the same.
And it is intended to amend, enlarge, and extend the pro-
visions of any Act of Parliament now in force relating to the
lighting,- watching, paving, or improving the said parish of
Saint Martin's-in-the-Fields, or any Act in any way relating to
Inch parish, or to any of the buildings situated within the
area hereinbefore mentioned.
And Notice is also Given, That duplicate plans-and•sec-
Cons of the site of the proposed works, showing the lines and
levels thereof, and the lands in or upon or through which the
name are to be made, together with a Book of Reference to
ouch Plans, containing the names of the Owners and reputed
Owners, Lessees and reputed Lessees, and of the Occupiers
thereof, and a copy of this Notice, as published in the
Gazette, will be deposited on or before the
thirtieth day of November instant, with the Clerk of the
Peace for the County of Middlesex, at his Office at the Ses-
sions-house, Clerkenwell; and with the Clerk of the Peace
for the City and Liberty of Westminster, at his office
at the Sessions House, Clerkenwell, aforesaid; and on or be-
fore the same thirtieth day of November, a copy of the said
flans, Sections, and Book of Reference, with a copy of this
notice, as published in the London Gazelle, will be deposited
with the Parish Clerk of the said parish of Saint Martin's-in-
the-Fields, at his place of abode.
Printed copies of the intended Act will be deposited on or
before the thirty-first day of December next, in the Private
pill Office of the House of Commons.
Dated this 16th day of November, 1855.

WESTMINSTER TERMINUS RAILWAY.
(Amendment of Act—Deviation of Line—
Extension of time for purchase of land and completidn of
Itl‘"Y—Release and application of the sum deposited as
Jsecurity for the completion of the Line, and for other pur-
Pose s).
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That Application is in-
tended to be made to Parliament in the next session, for an
Aet to alter, amend, extend, enlarge, or repeal all or some of
the powers and provisions of " The Westminster Terminus
nailway Act, 1854."
And it is proposed by the said intended Act to autho-
rise and empower the Westminster Terminus Railway Com-
pany to abandon that portion of their authorised line
of railway which commences at or near the front gates to the
entrance of the Grey Coat Hospital of the Royal Foundation
of Queen Anne, in Grey Coat Place, in the Parish of Saint
John
the Evangelist, in the city and liberty of Westminster,
Passing thence from, in, through, or into the several parishes,o
wnships, extra-parochial or other places following, that is
saY—Saint John tho Evangelist in the city and liberty
of Westminster ; Saint George, Hanover Square, in the
Tity and liberty of Westminster and county of Middlesex ;
Pimlico, bed and shore of the River Thames,
In the counties of Middlesex and Surrey ; Nine Elms,
Saint Mary, Battersea, and which terminates at the
Point where the said authorised Railway is inten led to
cross the ditch forming the boundary or division between the
Parish of Saint Mary, Battersea and the parish of Clapham,
- and all or any portion which may be considered advisable
of the remainder of the said authorised railway, and also to
abandon the whole of the Branch Railway authorised to be
blade by the said Act which commences at a point leading
out of the lastly described Railway, about three chains and
fifty links due east from the northern angle of the front of
the Albion public-house, in Stewart's-lane, in the parish of
Vst. Mary, Battersea, in the county of Surrey, and terminating
a junction with the authorized line of the " West End of
London and Crystal Palace Railway," at or near Long Hedge
rarm House, in the occupation of Mr. Bernard John Graham,
hl the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea, in the County of Surrey.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act, to autho-
rise the construction and maintenance, in lieu cf the before-
mentioned portions to be abandoned, of a line of railway com-
mencing at or near the front of a dwelling-house, being No.
57, on the south side of Lupus Street, midway betwe3u Cla-
',Zrton Street, and Ranelagh Road, in the parish of St. George,
r,lan°Ter Square, in the city and liberty of Westminster ; such
dwelling-house being in the occupation of Felix Lievin B tu-
Wens, and passing thence from, through, or into, the following
Parishes,
townships, extra-parochial, and other places, (that
s to say) : the parish of St. George, Hanover Square, afore-
!aid, Thames Bank, the bed and shore of the River Thames,
in the counties- of Middlesex and Surrey ; Nine Elms, and St.
Mary, Battersea in the county of Surrey, and terminating at
or near the point or place, where the authorized West End of
London and Crystal Palace Railway is intended to pass under
the South Western Railway, near Stewart's Lane, in the
Parish of St. Mary, Battersea, in the county of Surrey.
And also a railway commencing at the point or place whore
the said last mentioned-intended-lineie .intended to termi-
Ininate, and terminating by a junction with the authorized
Westminster Terminus Railway at the point where the same
is intended to cross the before mentioned ditch, forming the
boundary or division. between the parish of St. Mary, Batter-
!ea and the parish of Clapham, and which said railway will
be wholly situate in the parish of St. Mary, Battersea afore-
said,

And also a railway diverging from and commencing by a
Junction with the intended railway firstly before aescribed,
at a point on' the same where it is intended to pass over New
Street, in Battersea New Town, about four chains northward
from the bridge which carries the London and South-Western
'lllvraY over such street, in the parish of Saint Mary, Bat-
tersea. aforesaid, and terminating by a junction with the up
line of the London and South Western Railway, at a point
about seven chains westward from the bridge which carries
lesaid railway over Stewart's Lane, in the parish of Saint
Mary, Battersea aforesaid, and which said railway will be
'holly situate in the parish of St. Mary, Battersea aforesaid.
And in connexion with the before mentioned intended rail-
Ways, it is propose to construct and maintain all proper and
necessary works, approaches, and conveniences, in connexion
therewith, and which said intended substituted railways will
100 delineated and shewn upon the plans hereinafter men-
tioned to be deposited, and, so far as nay bo necessary, to
alter the levels of the said authorized Westminster Terminus
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to take
Powers to purchase lands and houses compulsorily or other-
Wise for the above purposes, and to vary or extinguish any
Privileges appertaining- to those lands or houses which may
obstruct the said undertaking ; also to levy tolls, rates, and ,
duties for the use of the said intended railways, and to grant
exemptions from the payment of such tolls, rates, and duties.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to take
Power to alter, divert, or stop up, either temporarily or per-
Ifuanently, all turnpike and other roads, railways, tramways,
footways aqueducts, canals, streams, livers, and water-
courses within or adjoining the aforesaid parishes and other
races, or any of them, with which it may be necessary to
terfere in the construction of the said intended railways and
Works.

And Notice is hereby further given, that duplicate plans
and sections describing the line and levels of the intended
substituted railways and works, and the lands to be taken
planse purposes 'thereof, with books of reference to such
, and a published map, with the lines of the said intend-
-44 substituted railways delineated thereon, and a copy of this
notice as published in the London Gazette, will, on or before
the 30th day of November instant, be deposited for public in-
spection with the respective Clerks of the Peace for the Coun-
ties' of Middlesex and Surrey, and with the Clerk of the Peace
for the City of Westminster, at their respective offices in
the said Counties, and that on or before the said 30th day
of November copies of so much of the said plans, sections
and books of reference as relate to each of the several parishes
in or through which the said intended railways and works
are proposed to be made, together with a copy of the Gazette
notice, will be deposited with the parish clerk of each such
Parish at his residence, and in the case of any extra-parochial
place a copy of so much of the said plans, sections and books
of reference as relates thereto, and a copy of the said notice
'With the parish clerk of an adjoining parish.
And notice is hereby further given, that it is also pro-
Posed by the said intended Act to reduce the capital of the
Westminster Terminus Railway Company, and to apply a
Portion of such reduced capital in carrying out the substi-
tuted works contemplated by the said intended Act and to
repeal the 90th section of the said Westminster Terminus
Railway Act, 1854, or so much and such portion thereof as
May be necessary, and to take powers for enabling the said
Westminster Terminus Railway Company to obtain payment
of the whole or a portion of the sum of 35,4001. therein men-
tiOned, as deposited with the Court of Chancery, for securing
the completion of the said authorized line, and the invest-
ment in the meantime, if deemed expedient, of the whole or
a part of the said sum of money in the purchase of stock or
other securities ; and the receipt by the said Westminster Ter-
'ainius Railway Company, of the dividends or interest thereon,
rt, orforthe application thereof to the purposes of the said
to otherwise deal with the said sum, as Parliament
May think fit.
And Notice is hereby further given, that it is also pro-
Posed in the said intended Act, to insert provisions for ex-
tending the time granted or limited by the said Westminster
Term.
inus Railway Act, 1854, for the compulsory purchase
of land and for the exercise of the powers therein contained
for making or completing the railway, or any portion of the
Works thereby authorised, within the periods therein pre-
scribed, except such portions thereof as are proposed to be
abandoned.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to obtain
such further and additional powers as may be necessary for
affecting all or any of the purposes aforesaid, and for faci-
litating the prosecution of the said undertaking.
And it is also proposed to empower the said Westminster
Terminus Railway Company to enter into contracts, agree-
ments, and arrangements with the London and South Western
Railway Company, the London, Brighton and South Coast
Railway Company, the South Eastern iiailway Company,
the \Vest End of London and Crystal Palace Railway Com
pany, the Clapham and Norwood Railway Company,
and the East Kent Railway Company, or any or either of
them, with respect to the construction, working, and use of the
railway or railways and works of the Westminster Terminus
Railway Company, and to enable such companies or any or
either of them to work and use the same, and to agree with
the said Westminster Terminus Railway Company for the pay-
ment of certain rents, tolls, or sums of money for the use of
the said railway or railways and works, or for the apportion-
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