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LONDON & NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY
(LIA.YDON-SQUARE BRANCH, &c.)—(Purchase of Lease
of Haydon-square Branch of London and Blackwell Hallway ; Fur-
ther Provision.+ as to Appointment of Commissioners for Holy
Trinity in the Minoties, and as to Application of Certain Monies;
Power to Provide Hotel Accommodation at Euston-square Station ;
Superannuation Fund ; Provisions as to Station at Wolverhampton,
belonging to London and North-Western and Shrewsbury and Bir-
mingham Railway Companies, and Use of Birmingham, Wolver-
hampton, and Stour Valley Railway, and Birmingham Station, by
the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Company ; Additional
Station Accommoda• ion and Land at Birmingham and at Harrow
and Cottingham-Cum- H iddletan ; and Amendment of Acts.)
NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN, That application is intended
to be made to Parltamcnt in the next Session for an act for the
following amcng other purposes:—
First. To enable the London and Blackwell Railway Company to
sell or demise, for a y term of years, and the London and North-
Western Railway Company to purchase, or take on lease, a certain
Branch Railway, with the works and convent noes connected there-
with, commencing by a junction with the line of the London and
Blackwell Railway, at or near the west end of Chamber-street, in
the parish. of St. Mary 3latfelon, otherwise Whitechapel, in the
county of Middlesex, and terminating at or near certain warehouses
on the north side of Haydon-square, in the parish of Holy Trinity, in
the Minories, in the county of Middlesex, upon such terms and con-
ditions as have been or may be agreed upon between the companies,
or as may be prescribed by the said intended act; and to enable the
London and North-Western Railway Company to exercise all or any
of the powers and privileges now exerciseable by. the London and
Blackwell Railway Company over or in connection with the said
Branch Railway and works, and to assume such of the liabilities of
the last-mentioned Company as have been or may be agreed upon, or
as may be provided by the said Intended act; and also to enable the
London and North-Western Railway Company to levy tolls on or in
respect of the said Branch Railway :
Second. To make further and better provision for the appointment
of Commissioners, for carrying into effect within the limits of an act
passed in the eleventh year of the reign of his Majesty King George
the Third, intituied, " An Act for the better paving, cleansing, light-
ing, and watching Haydon-square, the New-square, Haydon-yard,
Sheepy-yard, Church-street, Little Church-street otherwise the
Church-passage, Church-court, and Thenton-street, and the passages
therein or leading thereunto, in the parish of Trinity otherwl.e Holy
Trinity, in the Minories, iu the county of Middlesex, within the
liberty of his Majesty's Tower of London, therein mentioned," the
powers and provisions of such act, and also of another act passed In
the fifty-seventh year of the reign of his said Majesty King George
tie Third, intituled, "An Act for better paving, improving, and
regulating the streets of the Metropolis, and removing and prevent-
ing nuisances arid obstructions therein," and to alter the qualifica-
tion of the commissioners acting in execution of the said acts, and to
enable the London and North-Western Railway Company, and such
other bodies or persons as shall be named in the said intended act,
to appoint commissioners with such qualification as shall be provided
hy the said intended. act: • - • . _

—And provision will also be made by the said intended act for the
appropriation and application of certain moneys paid into the Bank
of England wider the provisions of " The London and Blackwall
Railway (Branch to Ilaydon-square) Act, 1851," in respect of certain
land in Hayden-square required for the said branch railway, or the
works connected therewith:

And it is proposed by the said intended act, so for as may be
necessary for the purposes aforesaid, or any of them, to alter, amend,
extend, and enlarge, pr to repeal all or some of the provisions of the
said act passed in the eleventh year of the reign of his said Majesty
Killer George the Third, and also of the several acts following, or
some of them, relating to the London and Blackwall Railway Com-
pany (that is to say) : an act passed in the sixth and seventh years
of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, intitaled,
" An Act for making a Railway from the Mineries to Blackwall, with
Branches, to be called the Commercial Railway," and the several
ther acts following, distinguished in the Queen's Printer's copies of
the local and personal acts as 1 Vic. cap. 133; 3 Vic., cap. 95;
4 Vic., cap. 12 ; 5 Vic., cap. 34; 8 and 9 Vic., cap. 203; 9 and 10
Vic., cap. 273 ; 11 and 12 Vic., caps. 90 and 91; 12 and 13 Vic.,
cap. 73 ; 13 and 14 Vic., cap. 90 ; 14 Vic., cap. 28 (being the London
and Blackwall Railway (Branch to Haydon-square) Act,t,lBsl) ;
14 Vic., cap. 30 ; and 15 and 16 Vic , cap. 84:
Third. To enable the London and North-Western Railway Com-
pany to acquire or purchase, by agreement, lands and houses at or
near the terminus of their railway at Euston-square, in the parish
of St. Pancras, in the county of Middlesex; for the purpose of
providing hotel accommodation there, and to erect on any land so
acquired or purchased, or on any other land belonging to them
adjoining or near their said station, one or more hotel or hotels
with proper refreshment-rooms, stabling, and other conveniences
connected therewith respectively, and to acquire or purchase, by
agreement as aforesaid, any house or houses adjoining or near to
their said station now used and occupied as and for an hotel or
hotels :

Fourth. To provide for a superannuation fund for=the benefit of
the salaried officers and other servants of the comßany, partlY by
means of contribution of annual or other sums by such officers and
servants, and partly by contribution by the company; Or by some
other means to be provided by the said intended ict, and to autho-
rise the making from time to time of all necessary rules and regu-
lations as to the contributions to be made to such superannuation
fund, the benefits to be derived therefrom, the management and
disposition of the fund, or otherwise in relation thereto :
Fifth. To provide, either by agreement between the parties, or by
arbitration or otherwise, for a divisioa or partition between the Lon-
don and North-Western Railway Company and the Birmingham,
Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley Railway Company, or either of
them, on the one part, and the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Rail-
way Company on the other part, of the station at Wolverhampton be-
longing to the said companies, and the lands, buildino, and approaches
connected therewith, and for the appropriation to the separate and ex-
clusive use of the said companies respectively, of the portion of the
said station, lands, buildings, and approaches which shall be allotted
to such companies or company upon such division or partition, and
for such general arrangements for the use of the said station and
premises, or any part thereof, by the said companies respectively,
either separately or jointly, as may be agreed upon, or settled by
arbitration or otherwise as aforesaid, and for referring to arbitration
or otherwise determining any disputes or differences which may
have arisen, or may arise, between the said London and North-
Western and Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley Com-
panies, er either of them, on the one part, and the Shrewsbury and
Birmingham Railway Company on the ether part, or between the
members of the committee known as the Wolverhampton Joint
St Won Committee, respecting such station, or their respective rights
and interests therein, or thereto, or the use thereof, or of any part ,
thereof, in severalty or otherwise, by any or either of such compa-
nies, and for better defining or limiting the duration of or termi-
nating the special powers granted by " The Birmingham, Wolver-
hampton, and Stour Valley Railway Act, 1847, No. 1, Smethwick
Deviation," and by " The Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway
Company's Amendment Act, 1852," to the Shrewsbury and Birming-
ham Railway Company, to use the Birmingham, Wolverhampton,
and Stour Valley Railway and the stations connected therewith, and
the Birmingham New-street Station of the London and North-West-
ern Railway Company, and the works and conveniences connected
therewith, or any of them, and for making further provision for
ascertaining and fixing the sums of money, whether by way of rent
or principal money, to be paid by the Shrewsbury and Birmingham
Rail way Company for the use of the said last-mentioned railway,
stations, and works :
Sixth. To enable the London and NorthW'estern Railway Company
to provide additioaal station accommodation at or near, and to im-
prove the approaches to their present New-street Station at Bir-
mingham, and fer such purpose to purchase, by compulsionor agree-
ment, certain lands and houses situate in the parishes and townships
of Birmingham, SaintoMartin, Birmingham; Saint Peter, Birming-
ham ; St. Thomas, Birmingham ; and Saint Philip, Birmingham ;
or some of them, all in the county of Warwick, and also topurchase,
by compulsion or agreement, certain additional lands in connection
with their existing railway, in the parish of Cottingham-cam-Mid-
dleton. in the county of Leicester, and in the parish of Harrow, in
the county of Middlesex.
And it is intended by such an act to vary, repeal, or extinguish all
existing rights or privileges in any manner connected with the lands
and houses proposed to be taken under the authority thereof, or
which would in any manner Impede or interfere with the purposes
of the said act, and to confer other rights and privileges; and also to
authorise the alteration. diversion, or stopping up of all turnpike and
other roads, streets, railways, tramways, aqueducts, canals, streams,
and rivers, within or adjoining the aforesaid parishes, with which it
may be necessary to interfere in carrying the purposes of the said
intended act into effect :

And Notice is hereby also Given, that plans of the additional lands
proposed to be purchased in the parish of Birmingham, with books of
reference to such plans, and also a copy of this notice, as published
in the London Gazette, will be deposited on or before the thirtieth
Jay of November instant, with the Clerk of the Peace for the county
of Warwick, at his office in Stratford-upon-Avon, and with the
Parish Clerk of the parish of Birmingham, at his residence, and that
plans of the additional lands proposed to be purchased in the parish
of Cottingham-cum-Middleton, with a book of reference thereto. and
a copy of the said Gazette notice, will, on or before the same day, be
deposited with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Leicester, at
his office in Leicester, and with the Parish Clerk of the parish of
Coltingham-cum- Middleton at his residence; and that plans of the
additional lands proposed to be purchased in the parish of Harrow.
with a book of reference thereto, and a copy of the said Gazette
notice, will, on or before the same day, be deposited with the Clerk
of the Peace for the county of Middlesex, at his office in Clerkenwell-
green, and with the Parish Clerk of the parish of Harrow, at his
residence:
And it is also proposed, in and by the said act, to enable the Lon-
don and North-Western Railway Company to apply their corporate
funds to all or any of the purposes aforesaid, and to raise a further
sure of money either by shares or by mortgage, or by both those
means :
And it is also proposed by the said intended act to alter, amend,
extend, and enlarge, or to repeal all or some of the provisions of the
several acts of Parliament, or some of them following relating to the
London and North-Western Railway Company (that is to say): An
act passed in the session of Parliament held in the ninth and tenth
years of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled, " An act to con-
solidate the London and Birmingham, Grand Junction, and Man-
chester and Birmingham Railway Companies," and the several other
acts, distinguished in the Queen's printers' copies of the local and per-
sonal acts, as 8 and 9 Vic., caps. 36, 37, 43, 105, 111, 112, 123, 156,
and 198; 9 Vic., cap. 67; 9 and 10 Vic., caps. 80, 82, 152, 182, 192,
1,3, 231, 232, 233, 244, 248, 259, 261,262, 269, 300, 309, 332, 323, 324,
325, 331, 359, 368, 369, 380, and 396; 10 and 11 Vic., caps. 73, 107,
114, 118, 120, 121, 132, 139, 159, 161, 178, 188, 228, 236, 270, 278,
and 294 ; 11 and 12 Vic., caps. 58, 60, and 130 ; 12 and 13 Vic., cap.
74 ; 13 and 14 Vic., cap. 36 ; 14 Vic., cap. 28 ; 14 and 15 Vic., cap.
94 ; 15 Vic., caps. 98 and 105 ; and 16 and 17 Vic., caps. 97, 110, '
157, 160, 161, 205, 216, and 222 ; and also of the several acts follow-
ing relating to the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Company,
or some of them (that is to say): local and personal acts 9 and 10 Vic.,
caps. 307 and 308 ; 10 and 11 Vic , cap. SO ; 11 and 12 Vic., cap. 133 ;
12 and 13 Vic., cap. 85 ; and 15 and 16 Vic., cap. 165:
And also of the several acts following relating to the Birmingham,
Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley Railway Company, or some of
them (that is to say): local and personal 9 and 10 Vic., cap. 328; and
10 and 11 Vic., cap. 120.
And Notice is hereby also Given, that printed copies of the pro-
posed bill will be deposited in the Private Bill office of the House of
Commons on or before the 31st day of December in the present
year.
Dated this tenth day of November, 1853.

S.-CARTER,
SWIFT and WAGSTAFF,/ Solicitors,
32, Great George-street, Westminster.

Weishpool, Castlecaerinion, Castlecaerenion, Castlecaeireinion, Tre-
helig, Cletterwood, Buttington, Hope, Trevfarn, Middletown,
Guitstield, Burgedin, Trelydan, Gungreg Fawr, Gungrogfechan,
Hendrehen, Trowscoed, Lion, Hendrehen Lien, and Trowscoed,
Trefedred, Tirymynech, Tierymynech, Garth, Llanerehroch-
well, Broniarth, Broniarth Upper, Broniarth Lower, RhetescYll,
Nheteskin, Tyddyn, Varchoel, Burgedin, Alberbury, Heldre, Uchel-
dre, Ulcheldre, Uppington, Bulthy, Bulthey, Middletown, and Tref-
nant, all in the county of Montgomery; Alberbury, Heldre, Upping-
ton, Winnington, Trefnant, Huntley, Bulthy, Wo.laston,Woolaston,
Great Woolaston, Wattlesborough, Alberbury, Amaston, Ambaston
Rowton and Amaston. Cardiston, Cardesten, Westbury, Marsh,
Wigmore, Marsh and Wigmore, Vennineton, Hargreave, Hargrave,
Stietton. Stoney Stretton, Yockleton, tretton Heath, Pontesbury,
Edge, Newnham, Nox, Crnekton, Cruckmeole, Sascott, Asterley,
Newnham and Sascott, Arscott, Cruckmeole and Arscott, Hinton,
Holston, Farley, Lea, Polmere, Little Hanwood, Oakes. Onslow,
Ford, Fords Heath, Hanwood, Great Hanwood, Stint Chad Shrews-
bury, Woodcote, Horton, Woodcote and Horton, Crowmeole, Monk-
meole, Gooschill. Monkmeole and Goosehill Meole, Meole Brace,
Brace Meole, Pulley, Nobold, Newton, Edgebold, Newton and Edge-
bold, Sutton, Saint Julian Shrewsbury, Coleham; Shrewsbury, The
Abbey Foregate Shrewsbury,
Holy Cross and Saint Giles Shrews-
bury, all in the county of Salop; and terminating on the eastern side
of the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, in a field belonging to
the Reverend Edward Price Owen, and occupied by Edward Parker,
in the parish of saint Julian Shrewsbury, and alsd forming a junc-
tion with:the Shrewsbury. and Hererord Railway at or near the first
mile post from tte Shrewsbury terminus of that railway, in the said
parish of Saint Jiilian Shrewsbury, all in the county of Salop:
And also a railway, with all proper works and conveniences con-
nected therewith, commencing by a double junction with the said
intended railway, one of such junctions being about a quarter of a
mile to the south of the Cern farm-house belonging to William Rub-
bathan, Esquire, in the occupation of David Evans, in the parish of
Buttington, in the county of Montgomery, and the other of such
junctions being about one furlong to the north-east of the said farm-
house, in the same parish,.and passing thence in, through, or into
the several parishes, townships, extra-parochial or other places fol-
lowing, or some of them (that is to say) : Buttington, Cletterwood,
Hope, Tre ?fern, Middletown, Guilsfleld, Burgedin, Trelydan, Gun-
grog Fawr, Gangrog Fechan, Hendrehen, Trowscoed, Trawscoed,
Lien, Hendrehen Llan and Trowscoed, Trefedred, Tirymynech,
Tierymynech, Garth, Llanerehro:hwell, Broniarth, Rroniarth Upper,
Broniarth Lower, Rhetyscyn, Rheteskin, Tyddyn, Parehoel, Alber-
bury, Heldre, Uppington, Criggion, Cruggion, .Bicton, Alberbury,
Llandrinio, Llanerchkeela, Penthryn Vechan, Penthryn Fechan,
Trederwen, Trederwan, Deythur, Dyther, Penthryn Fawr, LlandY-
silio, Domgay, Dongay, Domgee, Houghton; Rhysnant, Rusnant,
Rhnsnant, Carreghova, Rhantregyntven, Bryn Mawr, Gwbrnfelle
and Llanymynech, all in the county of Montgomery ; Llanymynech,
Llanymynach, Llwyntidman, Carreghova, Trepenal, Treprenal,
Lianyblodwell, Brenn, Bryn, Tanatt, Abertanatt, tlynclye, Blod-
well, Knockin, Woolston, Osbaston, Oswestry, Cricktrath, Moreton,
Morton, Maesbury. Sweeney, Weston Cotton;'Llanfaraa, town and
liberties of Oswestry, Middletort,,,Trertoinen, Trefcnien, Liansaint-
fraid-yu-Meehain, Treferclawdd, TrevyclawdrL Cynynion, Caeny-
nion, Pentrygaer, Pentregaer, Tancoed-y-gaer, Tretlabh, Aston, His-
land, Wootton, all in the county of Salop; and terminaring by a
junction with the Oswestry Branch of the Shrewsbuty and Chester
Railway at or near the terminus of such branch near the station in
the town of Oswestry, in the parish of Oswestry, in the county of
Salop :
And also a branch railway with all proper works and conveniences
connected therewitb,c ommencing by a junction with the said first-
mentioned intended railway, at or near Little Woollaston Farm. be-
longing to Henry Lyster, Esquire, in the occupation of Richard
Kempster, in the parish of Alberbary, in the county of Salop, thence
passing in, through, or into the several parishes, townships, and
extra-parochitil or other places following, or some of them (that is to
say) : Alberbury, Rowton and Amaston, Hayford, Westbury, Stret-
ton, Stoney Stretton, Cause, Forest, Lake, Marsh, Newton, Yenning-
ton, Wallop, Whitton, Wigmore, Winsley, Ilem, Yockleton, Cardis-
ton, Wattlesborough, Upper Newton, Lower Newton, Wigley, Aster-
ley, Farley, Fairley, Farley and Boycet, Royce, Upper Lake, Lower
Lake, Pontesbury, Halston, Hinton, Lea, Newnham, Nox, Pontes-
ford, Edge Mulhurst, Meahhurst, Westley, Minsterley, and Minster-
ley in Westbury, all in the county of Salop ; and terminating at or
near the turnpike road,leading from Shrewsbury to Minsterley, at or
near the Angel Inn, in Minsterley, in the parish of Westbury, in the
county of Salop :
And it is intended by the said act to take power to stop np, alter,
or divert, whether temporarily or permanently, all such turnpike
roads, parish roads, footways, streets, and other highways, rivers,
streams, brooks, sewers, pipes, canals, reservoirs, notifications, waters
and watercourses, bridges, railways, or tramroads within the said
parishes, townships, and extra-parochial and other places aforesaid,
or some of them, which it may be necessary to stop up, alter, or
divert, by reason of the construction of the said intended rail-
ways and works, or any of them :
And Notice is hereby further Given, that it is intended by the
said act to enable the London and North-Western Railway Compatiy
to purchase lands and buildings, by compulsion or agreement, for the
ptirPoies of the said intended railways and works, or any of them,
and to vary or extinguish all existing rights and privileges in any
manner connected with the lands and houses proposed to be taken
for the purposes aforesaid ; and also to levy tells, rates, and duties
upon or in respect of the said railways and works, and to alter ex-
isting tolls, rates, and duties, and to confer, vary, or extinguish ex-
emptions from the payment of tells, rates, and duties, and other
rights and privileges :
And it is also proposed in and by the said act to authorise the
London and North-Western Railway Company to apply their corpo-
rate funds to all or any of the purposes aforesaid, and to raise a fur-
ther sum of money either by shares or by mortgage, or by both such
means :

And it is also intended by the said act to enable the London and
North-Western Railway Company and the Shrewsbury and Hereford
Railway Company to enter into contracts and arrangements for fa-
cilitating the transmission of traffic and the passage of en;ines and
carriages of the London and North-Western Railway Company over
and upon any portion of the said Shrewsbury and Ifereford Railway
upon payment of such tolls, rates. and charges, or such sum or sums
of money, either annually or in gross, and in sack manner and upon
such terms and conditions, as shall be agreed upon between the said
companies, or as shall be prescribed or provided for by the said in-
tended act ; and if need be to alter the tolls, rates, and charges now
payable to the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway Company:
And it is also intended by the said act to enable the London And
North-Western Railway Company, the Shrewsbury and Hereford
Railway Company, and the Severn Valley Railway Company, or
any two of them, to enter into contracts, agreements, and arrange-
ments, for the joint construction and use of a station, with suitable
approaches, works, and conveniences, in the townships and parishes
of Saint Julian Shrewsbury. Coleham, the Abbey Foregate Shrews-
bury, and Holy Cross and Saint Giles Shrewsbury, or some of them :
And it is also proposed by the said intended act to enable the Lon-
don and North-Western Railway Company and the Llanidloes and
Newtown Railway Company to enter into contracts, agreements,
and arrangements for the joint construction and use of the station
with suitable approaches, works, and conveniences. at or near the
commencement of the said first-mentioned intended railway in the
parish of Newtown; and, so far as may be necessary for such pur-
pose, to alter, amend, extend, or enlarge the provisions of " The
Llanidloes and Newtown Railway Act, 1853."
And it is also intended by the said act to enable the London and
North-Western Railway Company and the several companies in-
terested in the station at Shrewsbury, belonging jointly to the Shrews-
bury and Birmingham, Shrewsbury and Chester, and Shrewsbury
and Hereford Railway Companies, and the Shropshire Union Rail-
war, and Cana/ company, or some of them, to make agreements
for the admission of the London and North-Western Railway Com-
pany as co-partners in the said station, and for and concerning the
use by the London and North-Western Railway Company jointly
with such other companies of such station, and the watering-places,
sidings, platforms, booking-offices, warehouses, and other buildings,
.and conveniences connected therewith, or such portions thereof as
may be necessary; and also to enable the London and North-
Western Railway Company, and the several and respective com-
panies aforesaid, to enter into agreements for and concerning the use
of, and passage over, with engines, carriages, and waggons of the
London and North-Western Railway Company, such portions
of the lines of railway belonging to the said Shrewsbury and Bir-
mingham, Shrewsbury and Chester, and Shrewsbury and Hereford
Railway Companies, and the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal
Company respectively, or any or either of them, as may be necessary
for the use by the London and North-Western Railway Company of
such station, or any part thereof, and for and concerning the sums
in gross, or by annual payments, or the rates, tolls, or other charges,
which shall be paid by the London and North-Western Railway
Company to all or any of such other companies for or in respect of
all or any of the matters aforesaid; and also, if need be, to alter the
tolls, rates, and charges new authorised to be levied and demanded
by the before-mentioned companies, or any of them, for the use of
the said portions of railways, station, works, and conveniences, or
any of them:
And for carrying into effect all or any of the above objects, and
so far as may be necessary for such purposes, but not further or other-
wise, it is intended by the said act to alter, extend, amend, and en-
large, and, if need be, to repeal all or some of the powers and provi-
sions of the several acts following relating to the Shrewsbury and
Birmingham Railway Company, or sum of them (that is to say) :
local and personal acts 9th and 10th Vic., chapters 307 and 308 ;
10th and 11th Vic., chap. 80; 11th and 12th Vic., chap. 133; 12th
and 13th Vic. chap. 85 ; and 15th and 16th Vic , chap. 165:
And also of the several acts following relating to the Shrewsbury
and Chester Railway Company (that is to say): local and personal
acts 7th and Bth Vic., chap. 99 ; Bth and 9th Vic.. chap. 42 and 115;
9th and 10th Vic., chap. 250, 251, 274, and 275 ; 10th and I lth Vic.,
chap. 144; 12th and 13th Vic., chap. 55; 14th and 15th Vie., chap.
131 ;"and 15th and 16th Vic., chap. 146 :
And also of the several acts following relating to the Shrewsbury
and Hereford Railway Company (that is to say) : local and personal
acts 9th and 10th Vic., chap. 325 ; 13th and 14th Vic., chap. 26; and
15th and 16th Vic.„chap. 168.
And also of the several acts following relating to the Shropshire
Union Railways and Canal Company (that is to say) : local and per-
sonal acts. 9th and 10th Vic., chap. 304, 322, 323, and 324 ; and lath
anc.l 11th Vic„ chap. 236.

And also of " The Severn Valley Railway Act, 1853."
And Notice is hereby further Given, that on or before the thirtieth
day of November in the present year, duplicate plans and sects ens
of the said railways and works, together with a book of reference
thereto, and also a published map with the lines of railway delineated
thereon, and a copy of this notice, as published in the London Gazette,
will be deposited for public inspection with the Clerk of the Peace for
the county of Salop, at his office at Shrewsbury, in the said county
of Salop, and with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Montgo-
mery, at his office at Welshpool, in the said county of Montgomery ;
and on or before the said thirtieth day of November a copy of so much
of the pisses and sections as relates to each parish or extra-parochial
place In or through which the said railways and works are intended
to be made, together with a book of reference thereto, and a copy of
this notice, as published in the London Gazette, will be deposited as
follows (that is to say) : in the case of parishes, with the parish clerk
of each such parish. at his usual place of abode ; and in the case of
any extra-parochial place, with the parish clerk of some parish hn-
mediately adjoining to each such extra-parochial place, at his usua
place of abode:
And Notice is hereby lastly Given, that printed copies of the pro-
posed bill will be deposited in the Private Bill-office of the House
of Commons on or ibefore the thirty-first day of December in the
present year. .

Dated this 4th day of November, 1853.
8. CARTER, 7 Solicitors,
SWIFT and WAGSTAFF, j Westminster.

taken by the said intended act to dissolve the said Birkenhead, Lan-
cashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Company.
And it is proposed by the said intended act to enable the same
two companies or their respective boards of directors to enter into
agreements for affecting all or any of the purposes aforesaid, and to
confirm all existing agreements between such two companies er their
directors with reference thereto.

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panyof them, by the creation of new shares in their undertaking, • either
with or without preference or priority in payment of leterest or
dividend, or by borrowing on mortgage or bond.
And it is proposed by the said intended act to enable the rßi k
head, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway
Company, the
London and North-Western Railway Company, and the Chester and
flolyhead Railway Company, or any two of those companies, to make,
e,ter into, and carry into effect such contracts and arrangements,
on such terns and conditions, and subject to such restrictions as
may be or may have been mutually agreed upon by or on behalf of
those companies, oreither of them respectively, with reference to the
conduct, working, mauagement, and direction of the traffic, or any
portion of the traffic, upon their respective railways or any part
thereof, and the division and apportionment of such traffic, and the
tolls, rates, and charges arising therefrom, between and amongst
the said companies or any or either of them, and with respect to the
maintenance of the said railways or any of them by the said com-
panies or any of them; and for enabling the said companies, or any
two of them, to appoint a joint committee for carrying into effect
any such
contracts or arrangements. and to exercise by means of
such joint committee or otherwise such of the rights, powers, or
privileges, whether with reference to the levying of tolls, rates, and
duties, or otherwise, now or hereafter vested in or belonging to the
said comnarties respectively, or such of them as may be parties to
any such contract or arrangement as aforesaid, and all such other
rights, powers, and privileges as may be necessary or expedient for
more effectually carrying into effect any such contracts or arrange-
ments.
And it is proposed by the said intended
act to confirm all or any
agreements now or hereafter to be entered into between the said
companies, or any of them, or on their behalf, with reference to all
or any of the purposes lastly hereinbefore mentioned.
And it is proposed by the said intended act to aUtdOriSe the altera-
tion or revision of the tolls, rates, and duties at present leviable upon
the railways of the said companies, or any of them, and to confer
such exemptions from the payment of such tolls, rates, and duties, or
any of them, as may be thought necessary or expedient.
And Notice is hereby lastly given, that on or before the 31st day
of December in tile present year printed copies of the bill for effect-
ing the objects specified in this notice will be deposited in the private
bill office of the House of Commons.

Dated this Ist day of November, 1853.
JOHN B. LLOYD. 1 Solietors for
SWIFT and WAG iTAFF, 3 the 8111.

TORQITAY and NORTH DEVON EXTEN-
SION RAlLWAY.—(lncorporation of Company for making
a R dlway from the Pier or Harbour at Torquay to the Torquay
Branch of the South Devon Railway, and a Branch to a Point near
Livermead House. Power to the South Devon Railway Company to
Subscribe, Btc. Amendment of Acts of that Company.)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That appliaation is intended
to be made to Parliament in the Session of 1854 for an Act to
incorporate a Company, and to enable such Company to make and
maintain a Railway and Branch Railway. with all proper stations,
works, approaches, and conveniences connected therewith respec-
tively, the Railway to commence at and from the Torquay Branch of
the South Devon Railway, near the north end of the Torquay Sta-
tion, at or near Torr, in the partsh of Tormoham, otherwise Tor-
mohun, in the county of Devon—to pass thence through or info the
parishes or places of Tormoham otherwise Tormohun, Torre, other-
wise Torr, Tor-Abbey, 'Torquay and Cockington, in the county afore-
said, and to terminate at or near the Western Quay or Pier of the
Harbour of Torquay in the said parish of Tormoham otherwise Tor-
mohun; and the Branch Railway to commence by a junction with
the said intended railway at a point on the sea-shore about five
fur-
longs in a westerly direction from the Western side of the Torquay
Harbour, to pass thence through or into the parishes or places of
Tormoham otherwise Tormohun aforesaid, Cockington and Tor-
Abbey, or some of them, and to terminate near Livermead House in
the parisk of Cockington, by a junction with a projected line of Rail-
way from the South Devon Railway to Brixham and Dartmouth.
And it is proposed by the said intended act to take power for the
purchase of lands and buildings, by compulsion or agreement, for the
purposes of the said intended railways and the works connected
therewith ; and to vary or extinguish all existing rights and privi-
leges in any manner connected with the lands and buildings proposed
to be taken as aforesaid ; and also to levy tolls, rates, and duties,
upon or in respect of the said railways and works, and to alter ex-
- istingqoll*, rates, and duties, and to confer, vary, or extinguish
' exemptions from payments of tolls, rates, or duties, and other rights
and privileges. '
And it is also proposed by the said intended act to take power to
cross, divert, alter, or stop up, either temporarily or permanently, all
such turnpike and other roads, footways, streets, rivers, streams,
piers, quays, sewers, pipes, canals, navigation, bridges, railways,
or tram roads, within or adjoining the said parishes or places, or any
of them, as it may be necessary to cross, divert, alter, or stop up, for
the purposes of the said intended railways and works.
And notice is hereby-further given, that on or before the 36th day
of November inst., maps, plans, and sections, showing the direction,
line, and levels of the said intended railways and works, together with
a book of reference to such plans, and a copy of this notice as pub-
lished in the' London Gazette, will be deposited with the Clerk of the
Peace for the county of Devon, at his office at the Castle of Exeter
in the said county ; and that 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 railway and works are intended
to be made, together with a copy of this notice, as published in the
London Gazette, will be deposited with the parish clerk of each
such parish, at his place of abode.

And it is also proposed by the said act to authorise the South Devon
Railway Company to subscribe and contribute towards the said un-
dertaking, and to apply any capital or funds, now or hereafter be-
longing to them, or under the control of their directors, to that pur-
pose, or to raise additional capital by the creation of new shares in
their undertaking, either with or without preference or priority in
payment of interest or dividend, or by borrowing on mortgage, or
bond; and to enable the said South Devon Railway Company to
vote at meetings of ,the said company to .be incorporated as afore-
said, and to appoint directors of that company ; and to enable the
said South Devon Railway Company and the company to be in-
corporated as aforesaid to enter into mutual arrangements with
respect to the several matters aforesaid or any of them, or for
the working of the said intended railways by the South Devon
Railway Company, and otherwise with respect to the said railways,
and to confirm all or any such arrangements as may have been entered
into prior to the passing of the said intended act; and it is also proposed
by the said act to authorise the company thereby incorporated to use
with their engines and carriages the South Devon Railway, and the
stations, approaches, sidings, watering places, and works connected
therewith, upon such terms as may be agreed upon or be provided
for by the said act.
And Notice is hereby further Given, That on or before the 31st
day of December in the present year printed copies of the Bill for
effecting the objects specified in this notice will be deposited in the
Private Bi 1-office of the House of Commons.

And it is proposed by the said intended act to alter, amend, ex-
tend, vary, or repeal the following Acts of Parliame t, relating to
the South Devon Railway Company (that is to say) local and per-
sonal acts-7 and 8 Vic., cap 68 9 and 10 Vic., caps. 238 and 402 :
10 and 11 Vic. cap. 242 ; and 14 and 15 Vic., cap. 53.

Dated this eleventh day of November, 1853.
KENNAWAY and BUCKINGHAM, Exeter ;
W. and C. KITSON, Torquay ;
Solicitors for the BM.