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A special meeting of this company was held yes-
terday at the York station ; Mr. G. Leeman
presided.
The CHAIRMAN said the first bill he had to sub-
mit was the Leeds New Station Bill, which was
promoted by the London and North-Western and.
North-Eastern Companies, and authorized each of
them to expend £lOO,OOO in the formation of the
station at Leeds. Ile moved that the meeting ap-
prove the bill.

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now Fire Brigade Bill, of which ho had made the following
analysis :—The metropolis is defined to comprise all parts
within the jurisdiction of the board. After the Ist of Jan.,
1866, the duty of the board shall be deemed to be to extin-
guish fires and protect life and property from fire, and for
that purpose they shall have the power of providing and
maintaining an efficient force, properly equipped. The
board was also empowered to purchase buildings and land
for stations, stables, and dwellings, houses for the firemen,
and to contract to lay down telegraphic communication
from one station to another. The sixth clause gave them
power to purchase the existing plants of the Firo Brigade,
together with their offices and building. The force was to
be constituted under the commandof an officer, to be called
the chief officer of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade. The
chief officer and men of the Fire Brigade were to be ap-
pointed and removed to the pleasure of the board. The
board was to regulate salaries, pensions, and rewards for
services. They wore also to have power to make arrange-
ments for the purchase of fire escapes, or to contribute to
the funds of fire escape societies. The powers of the brigade
wore next defined, and the police were overpowered to assist
them in the execution of their duties. To meet the ex-
penses of the brigade every office that insured against fire
will have to pay £35 per annum foa every million pounds
sterling of property they insured fn the metropolis, and the
contributions are to be considered as specialty debts due to
the board, and recovered accordingly. The Treasury was
to contribute a sum annually, not exceeding £lO,OOO, ac-
cording as Parliament might vote it. The board might,
with the consent of the Treasury, borrow £40,000 for the
purposes of the act. Then followed various miscellaneous
provisions for regulating officers, penalties for chimneys on
fire, recovery of penalties, audit of accounts, and of establish-
ment of a salvage force, for employing the force beyond the
metropolis, and to permit the brigade to be used within
the metropolis, for special services, on terms to be agreed
upon. The board was empowered to levy a rate not exceed-
ing id. in the pound, to be raised like the rates under the
Metropolis Local Management Act, except that the beard
was to issue a warrant to the overseers, who wore to collect
the money with tho poor rate.

Mr. linsoN, of Leeds, seconded the motion.

Dr. FROBISHER said he found that in December
last the shareholders gave power for new stock to
the extent of £1,869,000, and he wished to know if
this would provide for the new station or the direc-
tors require £lOO,OOO additional.

The CHAIRMAN replied that the bill provided for
the raising of £lOO,OOO by means of shares in the
company.

The motion approving the bill was adopted.
The CHAIRMAN next asked the approval of the
meeting to the Leeds Extension Bill. By 'neaps of
the Station Bill, the extension through Leeds from
that new station to their Marsh-lane station, and
then by means of the Micklefield branch, they should
be enabled to make the shortest line between Leeds,
York, Scarborough, Hull, and the whole of the
• eastern district between Leeds and Scarborough.
The capital was £150,000.
Mr. HARTLEY seconded the motion.
After some explanations the motion was carried
unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN next moved the adoption of a bill
for the amalgamation with this company of the
Cleveland Railway Company. The bill gave power
to construct two short ironstone branches, seven
miles and two chains in length, in the northern
portion of Cleveland.

Mr. J. W. PEASE seconded the motion, which was
carried.

The CHAIRMAN moved that the meeting approved
a bill for making and maintaining the East and
West Yorkshire Union Railway.
Mr. SEYMOUR seconded the motion, which was
carried.

The board adopted the general principles of the bill, and
referred it to the Streets Committee to consider the clauses

in detail.

The meeting was then adjourned for a week.

Mr. BAZALGETTE brought up the report of Dr. Letheby
and himself relative to the nuisances created by certain
manufactories at Crossness. It went into the details very
minutely, and described them as intolerable nuisances, and
very injurious to the health of the officers connected with
the Main Drainage Works.
The report was referred to the Main Drainage Committee,
with power to take such steps as were necessary to remove
the nuisances complained of.
The routine business having been disposed of, the board
adjourned.

LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER.

Yesterday a special general meeting of this com-
pany was held at the Grosvenor Hotel, Pimlico, for
the purpose of considering several bills now before
Parliament ; Lord Sondes in the chair.

Mr. W. E. Johnson, the secretary, having read
the notice convening the meeting,
The CHAIRMAN said the following were the bills
in which the company were interested, and to which
the shareholders were asked to give their sanction :
A bill to authorise the company to make connecting
railways and to widen parts of their existing railways
in Surrey, and to acquire additional lands ; to pro-
vide for the abandonment of a railway authorised by
the Crystal Palace and South London Junction Rail-
way Act (1862) ; a bill to authorise the company to
make a short connecting railway at Beckenham, and
to abandon certain authorised lines ; to make provi-
sions as to the working of their traffic and that of
the South-Eastern Railway Company ; to confer
further powers to the Kent Coast Company, and
exemptions ;from dues and privileges at Broad-
stairs, Ramsgate, and Margate ; a bill to provide
for a contribution by the London and South Wes-
tern Railway Company to the undertaking of the
London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company,
and for the user by them of part of that under-
taking ; a bill to authorise the construction of rail-
ways to connect Deal and `'Palmer and Dover, in
the county of Kent ; a bill for authorising the Lon-
don and South Western Railway Company to make
new works, and for the amalgamation with their
undertaking of the undertakings of divers railway
companies, and for authorising arrangements re-
specting divers railways, and for regulating and in-
creasing the capital and borrowing powers of the
London and South Western Railway Company, and
for other purposes. Those bills had been before
described to the shareholders.

Mr. Newman, the solicitor to the company, hav-
ing read the heads of the bills,
The CHAIR3IAN moved formal resolutions approv-
ing them, which were agreed to, and a vote of
thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings.

CRYSTAL PALACE AND SOUTH LONDON
JUNCTION.

Yesterday a special meeting of this company was
held at the Victoria station, Pimlico, for the pur-
pose of considering a bill to authorise the London,
Chatham, and Dover Railway to make connecting
railways, and to widen parts of their existing rail-
ways in Surrey, and to acquire lands to provide for
the abandonment of a railway authorised by the
Crystal Palace and South London Junction Rail-
way Act, 1862. Sir C. Roney was in the chair.
The solicitor having read the heads of the bill,
The CHAIRMAN proposed a resolution formally
approving it, which was carried, and the meeting
separated. _ _ _