The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-29 00:00:00

OUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.-
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and CANTERBURY and 'VVIIITST ABLE RAIL AY CrillP•l-
- for the PURC BASE of the CA' TERB UR Y and WIIITz,TA
BLE RAILWAY, and DISSOLUTION of Cl.NTiiili BURY and
IVH I TST BI.E RAIL WAY CO M PAN Y.—POWER to PURC BFI
UNDERTAKING of, or GUAR INTEL I NTER,,ST on CAPITAL
of the SOUTH-EASTERN and CONTINENTAL STEAM-PACKET
COMPANY —POWER to PURCHASE, HIRE, and STEAm-
VESSELS. POWER to APPLY.: arid B. -.ISE CAPITAL for
ALL the PURPOSES AFORESAID, and for GENERAL PUR-
POSES of SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.—A MEND-
MENT of ACTS —NOTICE is HEREBY LIVEN, that APPLI-
CATION is intended to be made to PARLI AMENT in the next
Session for an ACT to confirm and ratify an Agreement, bearing date
the fourteenth of October, 1844, and made between the South-Eastern
Railway Company and the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway
Company, whereby an option of purchasing the Canterbury and
Whitstable Railway (at present under lease to the South-Eastern
Railway Company) is given to that Company upon a certain notice
within a certain period, and upon certain terms and conditions in
the said Agreement specified and set forth ; and also to confirm any
and every other Agreement which may have been entered into be-
tween the said Companies or their Directors with reference to such
purchase; and also to authorise the South-Eastern Railway Com-
pany to purchase the undertaking of the Canterbury and Whitstable
Railway Company. And it is proposed by the said intended Act to
provide for the dissolution and winding-up of the affairs of the Can
terbury and Whitstable Railway Company, and to alter, reneal,
amend, ratify, re-enact, and enlarge all or some of the powers granted
to the said Companies respectively for and with respect to the pur-
chase and sale of the said Canterbury and Whitstable Railway
company, and other the provisions of an Act of the s,th and 9th
years of the reitn of her present Majesty, Intl uled, "An
Act to enable the South-Eastern Railway Company to alter and ex-
tend the Canterbury, Ramsgate, and Margate Branch of the said
South-Eastern Railway, and to make a Branch therefrom to Deal,
and to purchase the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway, and for
other purp:ses ;" and also to enable the South-Eastern Railway
Company, after the said purchase, to levy tolls, rates, and duties
upon the said Canterbury and Whitstable Railway; and also to
alter existin tolls, rates, and duties, and to confer, vary, and ex-
tinguish exemptions from the payment of tolls, rates, and duties, and
to confer, vary, and extinguish other rights and privileges.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act, either to enable the
South-Eastern Railway Company to purchase the undertaking, and the
whole of the steam and other vessels and boats, and all the property
and effects of every description, of the Joint-Stock Company called
the South-Eastern and Continental Steam-Packet Company, and to
enable that Company to sell the same for a sum in gross, or to accept
in lieu of the shares in their capital, Preference or other Shares of
the South-Eastern Railway Company, and to authorise the creation
and issue of Preference or other Shares of the South-Eastern Railway
Company for that purpose, and, if necessary, to provide for the dis-
solution and winding-up of the affairs of the said Steam. packet Com-
pany, or to authorize and empower the South-Eastern Railway Com-
pany to guarantee a certain fixed rate of interest on the capital
which has been or may have been paid up on the shares in the capi-
tal of the said steam-packet Company.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to authorize and
empower the South-Eastern Railway Company to contract with any
Company or person for the purchase, construction, or use of steam
and other vessels and boats of every description, and to purchase,
construct, hire, and use the same,: and to levy tolls, rates, and
duties in respect.' of the same, and to alter existing tolls, rates,
and duties in respect of or affecting the same.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to authorize the
Routh-Eastern
.Ltitilway Company to apply to the purposes aforesaid,
or any of thenitany funds now or hereafter belonging to them, or
under the condroi of their, directors ; and also to enable that Com-
pany to raise additional -Capital Tor all 'or any of the purposes afore-•
said, and also foriother'ftingen4arkurnoses of the Company, and of
their undertaking by born:min; off mortgage or bond, or by the
creation of new shares in their undertaking, with or without prefer-
ence or priority in the payment of interest or dividend, or by all or
any of those means.

And notice is hereby further given, that printed copies of the Bill
for carrying the aforesaid purposes into effect will, on or before the
31st day of De ember, 1852, be deposited in the Private Bill-office of
the House of Commons.

And it is proposed by the said intended Act to alter, amend, vary,
consolidate, repeal, or re-enact all or some of the provisions of the
following Acts relating;to the South-Eastern Railway Company, or
some of those Acts (that is to say) local and personal Awts, 6 Will.
IV. cap. 75 ; 1 Viet., cap. 93 ; 2 Vict., cap. 42 ; 2 and 3 Vict., cap.
79; 3 Viet., cap. 46 ; 5 Viet., secs. 2, cap 3 ; 6 and 7 Vict., caps. 51,
52, and 62 ; 7 Vict., cap. 25 ; 7 and 8 Vict., caps. 69 and 91; 8 and 9
Viet., caps. 167, 186, 197, and 200 ; 9 Vict., caps. 55. 56, and 64 ; 9
and 10 Vict„ caps 305 and 339; 10 and 11 Vict., caps. 104 and 230;
13 and 14 Viet., cap. 31 ; and 15 and 16 Vict., cap. 103 ; and also of
the following Acts relating to the Canterbury and Whitstable Rail-
way Company, or some of those Acts (that is to say), local and per-
sonal Acts 6 Geo. IV., cap, 120; 7 and b Geo. IV., cap. 11 ; 9 Geo.
IV., cap 29 ; 5 and 6 Will. IV., cap. 82 ; and 8 and 9 Vict., cap. 197.
Dated the third day of November, 1852.
TILLEARD, SONS, and FREEMAN, 34, Old Jewry.