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London, England, 1865-11-18 00:00:00

TIIHE GAS LIGHT and COKE COMPANY
A. and CITY of LONDON GAS LIGHT and COKE
COMPANY.

(AMALGAMATION—INCREASE OF CAPITAL—
AMENDMENT OF ACTS.)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That application is
intended to be made to Parliament in the next Session for
an Act for the Amalgamation of The City of London Gas
Light and Coke Company with The Gas Light and Coke
Company, so as to vest in the last named Company the
undertaking, works, buildings, lands, machinery, mains,
pipes, plant, property, and effects of every description of
the City of London Gas Light and Coke Company, and all
the rights, powers, and privileges of or belonging to or en-
joyed by that Company, of what nature or kind soever,
including the making and recovering of rates, rents, and
charges, and to enable The Gas Light and Coke Company
to use, exercise, and enjoy all or any of those rights,
powers, and privileges.
And it is intended by the said Act to provide for the
dissolution of the City of London Gas Light and Coke
Company, and for the incorporation of the; Shareholders •
in that Company with The Gas Light and Coke Company.
And it is also intended by the said Act to enable The
Gas Light and Coke Company for the purposes aforesaid
to raise additional capital by the creation of preference,
ordinary, or debenture shares or stock, and by mortgage,
or by either of those means.

And it is also intended by the said Act to confirm any
agreement or agreements which have been or may be
entered into between the two companies in relation to the
matter's aforesaid.
And it is also intended by the said Act to alter, amend,
and extend, or to repeal all or some of the provisions of
the Acts (local and personal), 50th Geo. cap. 163 ;
54th Geo. 111., cap. 116 ; 56th Geo. 111., cap. 87 ; 59th
Geo. 111., cap. 20 ; and 4th Geo. IV., cap. 119; relating to
the Gas Light and Coke 'Company, and also of the Act
(local and personal) 22d and 23d Vic., cap. 52, relating to
the City of London Gas Light and Coke Company, and
also the Act (local and personal) 27th and 28th Vic., cap.
322, relating to the Metropolitan District Railway Com-
pany.
And Notice is Hereby also Given that on or before the
23d day of December next, printed copies of the intended
Act will be deposited in the Private Bill-office of the House
of Commons.
Dated this 17th day of November, 1865.
CURTIS and BEDFORD
Haberdashers' Hall,
Solicitors to The Gas Light and Coke Company.
PAINE and LAYTON,
Gresham House,
Solicitors to the City of London Gas Light and
Coke Company.

NE AT H JUNCTION RAILWAY

,Incorporation of Company—Construction of Railways
to connect the South Wales Mineral Railway with the
Swansea and Neath Railway, near Neath—Powers to
Great Western, South Wales Mineral, and Vale of Neath
Railway Companies—User of Portions of other Railways
Amendment of Acts.)
NOTICE 15 HEREBY GIVEN, That application will
be made to Parliament, in the next Session, for an Act to
incorporate a Company (hereinafter called "the Com-
pany") for making and maintaining the railways following
or one of them (with stations, approaches, works, and con-
veniences), viz. :
No. 1. A railway commencing in the hamlet of Coed-
frank, in the parish of Cadoxton, juxta Neath, by a junction
with the Vale of Neath Railway, at or near the point
where the tramroad to the Crown Copper Works crosses
over that railway and terminating in the parish of. Neath
by a junction with the South Wales Railway at or near
the distance post thereon indicating 207 k miles, which in-
tended railway will pass from, in, through, or into the
parishes and places of Cadoxton, juxta Neath, Blaen-
honddon, Neath, Dyffryn, Clydach, Coedfrank, Briton
Ferry, and Llantwit.
2. A railway commencing at or near the termination of
the intended railway before described, and terminating by
a junction with the South Wales Mineral Railway at or
near Cwrt Sart Lane, in the parish of Briton Ferry ; which
intended railway will pass from, in, through, or into the
parishes and places of Briton Ferry, Llantwit, Llantwit-
juxta-Neath, and Neath.
The said intended railways will be wholly situate in the
county of Glamorgan, and may be constructed upon the
broad or narrow gauge, or adapted to both gauges.
The intended Act will empower the Company to exer-
cise all o: some of the following powers (that is to say),—
To purchase by compulsion and also by agreement
lands, houses, and hereditaments for the purposes of the
said proposed railways and works connected therewith ;
to levy tolls, rates, and charges upon or in respect of the
proposed railways and works ; to confer exemptions from
the payment of tolls, rates, and charges ; to vary or extin-
knish all rights and privileges inconsistent with the objects
of the intended Act ; and to confer other rights and
privileges.
To cross, divert, alter, or stop up, for the purposes of
the intended Act, and either temporarily or permanently,
roads, streets, ways, streams, pipes, sewers, canals, nevi-
gations, rivers, bridges, railways, tramroads, and water-
courses within or adjoining-the parishes and places afore-
said, or any of them.
The intended Act will empower the Great Western
Railway Company, the South Wales Mineral Railway
Company, and the Vale of Neath Railway Company, or
any one or more of those Companies, to exercise the powers
of the intended Act, and to become promoters thereof, and
to take and hold shares in and subscribe towards the in-
tended undertaking or any part thereof, and to guarantee
to the Company interest, dividend, or annual or other
payments, and for those purposes to empower the said
several Companies to apply their corporate funds and
revenues, and to raise further capital by the creation of
new shares or stock in their respective undertakings, with
or without any preference or priority in payment of in-
terest or dividend, or other privileges attached thereto, and
by borrowing on mortgage or otherwise.
And it is intended by the said Act to empower the Com-
pany on the one hand, and the Great Western Railway
Company, the South Wales Mineral Railway Company,
and the Vale of Neath Railway Company, or any one of
them, on the other hand, to make and carry into effect
agreements with respect to the maintenance and manage-
ment, use, and working of the railways of the contracting
parties, or any parts thereof, and the conveyance of traffic
thereon ; the fixing, collecting, and apportionment of the
tolls, rates, charges, receipts, and revenues levied, taken,
or arising in respect of such traffic, and the supply and
maintenance of engines, stock, and plant.
The intended Act will empower the Company and all
companies and persons working or using their railways,
or any part thereof, to run over, work, and use with their
engines, carriages, and waggons, and for the purposes of
traffic of every description, upon rates, payments, terms,
and conditions to be prescribed by the Act, or (failing
agreement) settled by arbitration, the following railway
and portion of railway; viz.,
1. So much of the Swansea and Neath line of the Vale
of Neath Railway Company as is situated westward of the
intended junction therewith of the railway firstly before
described.
2. The Swansea Harbour Railway.
Together with all terminal and other stations,
sidings, warehouses, buildings, booking, and other
offices, approaches, watering places, sheds, stifnd-
lug room for engines, works, and convenience,
water supplies, telegraph signals, shipping stages, and
machinery, in and upon such railway and portion of rail-
way respectively, and to require the companies and persons
owning and working the said railway and portion of rail-
way respectively, to afford and render all facilities and
services for the purposes aforesaid.
And it is proposed, so far as may be necessary for all or
any of the purposes of the intended Act, to alter, amend,
extend, vary, and enlarge, or repeal all or some of the
powers and provisions of the several local and personal
Acts of Parliament following, or some of them, viz., 5 and
6 William IV., cap. 107, and 26 and 27 Vic., cap. 168, and
of all other Acts relating to the Great Western Railway
Company ; The South Wales Mineral Railway Act, 1853,
and of all other Acts relating to the South Wales Mineral
Railway Company ; 9 andlo Vic., cap. 341, and of all other
Acts relating to the Vale of Neath Railway Company and
their undertaking.
And it is also proposed to incorporate in the said Act all
or some of the provisions of " The Companies' Clauses
Consolidation Act, 1845 ;" "The Companies' Clauses Act,
1863 ;" " The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845;"
" The Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts Amendment Act,
1860 ;" " The Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 ,"
and " The Railways Clauses Act, 1863."
Duplicate plans and sections of the intended railways
and works, with a book of reference to such plans, and a
published map having the lines of railway delineatedtbn
thereon, and a copy of this notice, published
London Gazette, will be deposited on or before theln3oh
November, in the present year, with the Clerk of thdei Peacean
for the County of Glamorgan, at his office in Car
bo,ok
ofd
a copy of so much of the said plans, sections,. and
reference,wbfnbh3 an
as relates
railways to each dof
worksthe will
parishes smiandoo
togetherthro.ugh
will
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tabbeforeecopy
Parishthoef in presentb e
depoys let rd,
and as regards any extra parochial place, with the Parish
3CtohletehrksdaonifydeoGafcahNzeotstvueeemhobteicre, parish at his residence,
Clerk of some immediately adjoining parish at his resi-
dence.
Printed copies of the intended Act will be deposited in
the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons, on or
before the 23d day of December next.
Dated this 16th day of November, 1865.
JAMES KEMPTIIORNE
WILLIAM BELL ,
Neath, Solicitor.
,
26, Duke-street, Westminster,
Parliamentary Agent.

TcolmONpanßyA ; RAILWAY
n;ction of Railway ;
(Incorporation of
powers to other Companies and over oth
er undertakings ;
amendment of Acts.)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That application is
intended to bo made to Parliament in the next session
thereof for leave to bring in a Bill to incorporate a Com-
pany (herein called "the
Company"), and to confer upon
them the following, or some of the foll • owing, powers :
To make and maintain a Railway with all necessary
works, stations, approaches, and conveniences connected
therewith, to commence by a junction with the Swansea
and Neath line of the Vale of Noath Railway, about five
chains north of the Red Jacket Copper Works, and to pass
through or into the parishes and places of Llansandet,
Cadoxton-juxta-Neath, Neath, Coedfrank, Llautwit,
Llantwit Lower, and Briton Ferry, or some of them, all
in the county of Glamorgan, and to terminate in the said
parish of Briton Ferry by junctions with the South Wales
Mineral Railway, and South Wales Railway at or near
Cwet Sart Lane.
To purchase lands, houses, and other
Property
and
T
com-
pulsorily for the purpose of the said intended
Railway
eo
works ; to levy tolls, rates, and charges in respect
to cross, alter, stop up, and divert
.roads,
r rent:atye, tram-
ways, drains, sewers, navigations, rivers, streams, and
h*
watercourses, and to vary and extinguish existing g •
s
necessary, in constructing '
and privileges, so far as may be nece
• ay or any of the works connected
or maintaining the Railway
therewith.
Instead of conferring the foregoing powers on a Com-
pany to be incorpora
as aforesaid, the Bill may confer
those powers on the Great Western Railway Company,
South Wales Mineral Railway Company, and on the Vale
of Neath Railway Company, or on any one or two of those
Companies.
The Bill will authorip the 'Vale of Neath, the South
Wales Mineral, and the Great Western Rail way,Companies,
or any one or more of those Companies, to contribute to-
wards the cost of constructing the said intended Railway
and works, and towards the other purposes of the Bill, out
of their corporate funds ; and, if necessary, the Bill will
authorise those Companies respectively to raise additional
capital by shares and stock, and by loan, and with or with-
out any priority of dividend or interest and other advan-
tage over their existing and authorised capital, and the
Bill will enable those Companies or any of them, to hold
shares in the capital of the Company, and to guarantee the

To incorporate a Company (hereinafter called " the Com-
pany") for making and maintaining the following Rail-
way, or some part or parts thereof :
A Railway, commencing in the parish of St. John, at
Hackney, in the county of Middlesex, by a junction with
the Railway No. 3, authorised by " The Great Eastern
Railway Railways)
wAct,ith IrBe6f
refer-
"
in
(Metropolitan
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be
r o d 324
on Stationthep andla
nsdeposited
ence to the aforesaid Act with the Clerk of the Peace for
a fied 12
the county of Middlesex, in the month of November, 1863,
and terminating in the parish of All-Hallows, Tottenham,
in the county of Middlesex, at or near and upon the south
side of the Exhibition Building (now in course of construc-
tion), at Alexandra tPark ; 'which intended Railway
will be situate in, or pass from, in, through, or into the
parishes and places following, or some of them
(that is to say), St. John, at Hackney, and All-
Hallows Tottenham, in the county of Middlesex.
To enable the Company and the Alexandra Park Com-
pany (Limited) from time to time to enter into knd fulfil
agreements with respect to the construction, maintenance,
and appropriation of the railway and works above de-
scribed, and also from time to time to enter into agree-
ments and arrangements with respect to the booking,
conveyance, and accommodation of the traffic thereon, and
the division and apportionment of the revenue arising
therefrom.
To deviate in constructing the said railway and
works from the line or lines and level delineated on
the plans and sections to be deposited, as aftermentioned,
tto the extent to be shown on the said plans and sections, or
provided in the intended Act, to cross, stop up, alter or
divert, whether temporarily or permanently, all such turn-
pike and other roads and highways, streets, railways,
aqueducts, canals, streams, drains, pipes, and other works,
and subjects as may bo necessary or expedient by reason
of the construction of the said railway and works.
To use and appropriate any road, street, or thoroughfare
for the purposes of the said intended railway and works ;
and to divert or remove all gas, water, and other pipes
beneath or communicating with any of the streets ; and to
alter the level and position of the sewers and drains in and
communicating with the said streets ; and to temporarily
stop up the said streets during the construction of the
works ; and to use and appropriate for the purpose of the
intended railway the under-surface of any road, street,
thoroughfare, or land.
To purchase, by compulsion or otherwise, lands, houses,
and hereditaments for the purposes of the said intended
railway and works ; and to alter, vary, or extinguish all
existing rights and privileges connected with such lands,
houses, and hereditaments, 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 railway and works ; and to alter,
vary, or extinguish existing tolls, rates, and duties ; and
to confer, vary, or extinguish exemptions from the pay-
ment of ;ells, rates, and duties.
To raise money by the creation and issue of shares, and
by borrowing on mortgage or bond.
To enable the Company and the Great Eastern Railway
Company to enter into and carry into effect arrangements
and agreements with reference to the 'working by the Great
Eastern Railway Company of the intended railway ; the
supply of rolling and working stock ; the regulation and
apportionment of traffic; the levying, fixing, receipt, divi-
sion, and apportionment of tolls, rates, and charges; the
management, maintenance, and repair of the said intended
railway and works, or any part or parts thereof ; the pay-
ment of a fixed or contingent rent, and the use of the said
intended railway and works, or any part or parts thereof ;
I and for the appointment of a joint committee or joint corn-
' a:Woes to carry out such arrangements or agreements.
To empower the Great Eastern Railway Company by
themselves, ortheirnominees, to take and hold shares in and
subscribe towards the intended undertaking, or any part or
parts thereof ; and to guarantee to or for the Company in-
terest, dividend, annual or other payment on shares and
stock, and the principal and interest of any loan, and to ad-
-1 vance antl lend money to the Company ; and for those
' purposes to apply any part of the funds which they are
now authorised to raise, and which are not required for the
purposes of their undertaking, and to raise money by the
creation of new shares or stock in their undertaking, with
or without preference, priority, or guarantee, in payment of
interest or dividend, or other special privileges, and by
borrowing on mortgage or bond ; and to appoint directors
of the Company.
To sanction, confirm, and give effect to contracts and
arrangements between the Company and the Great Eas-
tern Railway Company for all or any of the purposes of the
intended Act.
To incorporate with the intended Act the necessary pro-
visions of " The Companies Clauses Consolidation Act,
1845 The Companies Clauses Act, 1863 ;" " Theu(
Lands Clauses Consolidation Act,
Clauses Consolidation Acts Amendment Act,
;"18‘,60,,h0 rßailways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 I
1845 ;" "The,,l,ittr
The
Rail-
ways Clauses Act, 1863 ;" " The Railway Companies
Powers Act, 1864."
of 'the following local
repeal all or some of the provisions
that is to say—" The
and personal Acts, or some of them,
Lines) Act, 1862 ;"
To alter, amend, extend, and enlarge, and, if need be, to
Eastern Counties Railway (EppingAo
1862 ;" " The Great
" The Eastern Union Railway
1 282, 313, and 326 ;
28th Vic., caps. 90'
95,
12228 249, 303, 62, 118, 184, 150,
28th and 29th Vic., caps. 17
8,
to the Great Eastern
and any other acts relating
wtoa together
eta
Eastern Railway (additional powers) Act 1863 ;" 27th and
and 103,
Railway Company.
of reference to such plans, and a pub-
orks, and a book
railway works,
with the line of the intendeddelineated
lished map
Plans and: soctiosngsenoferal thecosuarside
ainntdenddireedetiraonil,
thereon, showing it notice aspublished •
with a copy of this
Gazef....fe, will, on before the 30th day of November instant,
be deposited for public inspection with the Clerk of the
Peace for the County of Middlesex, at his office at the
Sessions-house, Clerkenwell, in the same county; and on
or before the same day, a copy of so much of
the said plans, sections, and book of reference as relates
to each parish in or through which the said intended
railways end works are professed to be made, together with
a copy of the notice as published in the London Gazette, will
be deposited for public inspection as follows (that is to say),
as to the parish of St. John at Hackney, with the clerk of
the Hackney District Board, at his office in the Town-
hall, Church-street, and as to the parish of All Hallows,
Tottenham, with the parish-clerk thereof at his residence ;
and printed copies of the intended Act will be deposited
in the Private Bill-office of the House of Commons on or
before the 23d day of December next.
Dated this 12th day of November, 1865.
DODDS and HENDRY,
18, Abingdon-street, Westminster,
Parliamentary Agents.

Several German journals state that the Grand
Duke of Baden is suffering from several slight attacks of
congestion of the brain, which have produced a derange..
ment of the mental faculties. Accounts direct from Carls-
rube confirm the above, and declare that the state of the
Grand Duke has recently grown worse.
The Invalide Russe publishes the following news
from Warsaw:—" The recruitment in the kingdom of
Poland has been accomplished in perfect order. The draw-
ing took place everywhere on the 7th and Bth. On the 9th
the operation was finished all over the country."