The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-28 00:00:00

REAT WESTERN RAILWAY, OXFORD,
‘X WORCESTER, AND WOLVERHAMPTON RAI LWAY, &c.
(FURTHEE POWERS as to OXFORD, WORCESTER, and
WOLVERHAMPTON RAILWAY; ADDITIONAL LAND at
WOLVERHAMPTON ; INCREASE of CAPITAL ; ALTERA-
TION of TOLLS; and AMENDMENT of ACTS.)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That application is in-
tended to be made to Parliament in the next session, for an
act to make further and more effectual provision for requiring the Ox-
ford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Company to construct,
complete, and maintain their railway and branches w;th a double
line of broad gauge rails upon the whole extent thereof, so as to
admit of the same being worked continuously with the Great Western
Railway; and for enabling the_ Great Western Railway Company to
advance, if need be, all or any part Of the money which may be re-
quired for such purposes, and for providing for the reimbursement to
the Great Western Railway Company of any money so advanced by
them ; and for empowering the Great Western Railway Company,
and all other companies and persons, to use and pass over, with their
own engines and carriages, all or any part of the broad guage lines
of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, and the
stations, sidings, booking and other offices, watering places, water
and other works and conveniences thereto belonging, upon payment
of such tolls, rates, and charges, and on such other terms and condi-
tions as will be specified or provided for in the intended act, and to
levy tolls, rates, and charges upon the said Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton Railway, or any part thereof.
And it is also proposed by the said intended act to enable the
Great Western Railway Company to purchase compulsorily and use
for the purposes of their undertaking certain property lying near to
or adjoining the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway and the
Great Western Railway, where the same aro authorised to unite,
north of the town of Wolverhampton ; and also certain property ad-
jacent to the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway, and lying near
to the Victoria Basin, at Wolverhampton, all in the township of
Wolverhampton, and parish of Wolverhampton, in the county of
Stafford, or one of them.
And it is intended by such ad to vary, repeal, or extinguish all
existing rights or privileges in any manner connected with the lands
and buildings proposed to be purchased or •aken, or which would in
any manner impede or interfere with the construction, maintenance,
or use of the said railway and works, and to confer other rights and
privileges :
And it is intended by such act to alter, divert, or stop up all turn-
pike and other roads, railways,tramways, aqueducts, canals, streams,
and rivers, within or adjoining to the aforesaid parishes, townships,
and extra-parochial or other places, or any of them, with which it
may be necessary to interfere in the construction of the said railway
and works: _ _

And it is also intended by such act to enable the Great Western
Railway Company to apply to the purposes of the said intended act,
or some of them, such portion of their corporate funds as they shall
think expedient, and to raise a further sum of money for all or any
of such purposes by the creation and issue of new shares in their
undertaking, either with or without preference or priority in the
payment of dividends or other special privileges, or by mortgage or
bond, or by such other means as Parliament shell authorise or
direct :

And it is also proposed by the said intended act to alter the tolls,
rates, and charges now leviable or demandable upon the Great
Western Railway, or some part or parts thereof, and to anthorise
the levying of other tolls, rates, and charges upon the said railway ;
and to alter, amend, extend, and in part repeal certain of the provi-
sions of the acts affecting the Great Western Railway Company
hereinafter mentioned, relative to the levying of tolls, rates, and
charges neon, or in respect ot, the use of the Great Western Railway
and the traffic thereon, and to the conduct and management of such
traffic :

And Notice is hereby Given, That maps and plans, showing the
lands proposed to be purchased nnder the authority of the said in-
tended act, together with books of reference to such plans, and also
a copy of this notice, as published in the London Gazette, will be de-
posited on or before the 30th day of November, in the present year
with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Stafford, at his office
in Stafford ; and that a copy of the said plans and books of refer-
ence, and also a copy of the said Gazette notice, will be deposited on
or before the 30th day of November, in the present year, with the
Parish Clerk of the said parish of Wolverhampton, at his residence :
And it is also proposed by the said intended act, if need be, to
alter, amend, and extend all or some of the powers and provisions of
the several acts following, or some of them, directly or indirectly re-
lating to or affecting the Great Western Railway Company : (that
is to say) local and personal acts, 5 and 6 William IV., cap. 107 ; 6
William IV., caps. 36, 38, 77, and 79 ; 1 Victoria, caps. 91 and 92
(1837), and 24 and 26 (1838) ; 2 Victoria, cap. 27 ; 3 'Victoria, cap.
47 ; 3 and 4 Victoria, cap. 105; 4 and 5 Victoria, cap. 41 ; 5 Victo-
ria, Sess. 2, cap, 28 ; 6 Victoria, cap. 10 ; 7 Victoria, cap. 3 ; 7 and
8 Victoria, cap. 68 ; 8 and 9 Victoria, caps. 40, 53, 155, 156, 184, 188,
190, and 191 ; 9 Victoria, cap. 14 ; 9 and 10 Victoria, caps. 166, 181,
236, 239, 240, 278, 313, 315, 335, 337, 338, 369. and 402 ; 10 and 11
Victoria, caps. 60, 72, 76, 91, 101, 109, 149, 154, 226, and 242 ; 11 and
12 Victoria, caps. 28, 59, 74, 77, 82, 95, 130, 131, 133, 135, 158, and
159; 13 Victoria, caps. 6 and 7; 13 and 14 Victoria, caps. 44, 98,
and 110 ; 14 and 15 Victoria, caps. 48 and 81 ; 15 and 16 Victoria,
caps. 125, 133, 140, 145, 147, and 168; and 16 and 17 Victoria,*caps.
121, 153, 175, and 212 ;
And also the acts relating to the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver-
hampton Railway Company: (that is to say) local and personal, 8
and 9 Victoria, cap. 184; 9 and 10 Victoria, cap. 278 ; 11 and 12
Victoria, 59 and 133; 13 and 14 Victoria, cap. 110; 15 and 16 Vic-
toria, cap. 145 ; and 16 and 17 Victoria, cap. 212.
And Notice is Hereby also Given, That on or before the 31st day
of December next, printed copies of the intended bill will be depo-
sited in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons.
Dated this 10th day of November, 1853.

W. 0. and W. HUNT.
J. W. and G. WHATELEY.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That application is intended to be
made to Parliament in the ensuing session for an act to unite ang
amalgamate or to authorise the union and amalgamation, from and
after such period, and upon such terms and conditions as may have
been or may hereafter be agreed upon, or as may be prescribed or pro-
vided for by the said intended act, of the London and North-Western
and the Midland Railway Companies, and for the union mid consoli-
dation, or to authorise agreements for the union and consolidation,
into one undertaking of the several undertakings of such companies,
so that all the lands, tenements, and hereditaments, property, estate,
effects:rights, powers, privileges, and authorities of what nature or kind
soever, and whether with reference to the levying of tolls, rates, and
duties, the purchasing lands and buildings by compulsion or agree-
ment, the construction of works, or renting or purchasing:the under-
takings of other companies, or otherwise, vested in and belonging
to, or exercised and enjoyed, or exerciseable by the said companies,
severally or jointly, at the time of the said amalgamation, may be
vested in and belong to, and be exercised and enjoyed, and be exer-
ciseable by such one united and amalgamated company, under such
corporate name or style as may be provided by the said intended act,
or as may be agreed upon between the said companies :

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And it is proposed by the said intended act to make allncessary
and proper provisions for, or to authorise the entering into
agree-
ments for regulating, fixing, and determining the capital stocl and
borrowing powers of such united and amalgamated company, and
the rights, privileges, preferences, and priorities of the different
classes of shareholders in the said companies in the capital stock of
the united and amalgamated company, and for the fulfilment by such
united and amalgamated company of all contracts, agreements,
arrangements, or liabilities entered into by the said companies, and
in existence and capable of taking effect at the period of such union
and amalgamation:
And it is also proposed by the said intended act to provide for
the renewal or liquidation of the mortgage or bond debts of the said
companies, and for the security of the holders of such mortgages or
bonds, and also for the future election of directors and regulation of
meetings of shareholders of and in such united and amalgamated
company, and also for altering and varying the tolls, rates, and duties
leviable by the said companies, or either of them, from and after the
date of such union and consolidation :
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And it is proposed by the said intended act to empower the said
companies, or their respective boards of directors, to enter into, exe-
cute, and carry into effect any contracts, agreements, or arrange-
ments for or with reference to the maintenance, repairs, supervision,
working and use by each or either of those companies of the rail-
ways, canals, works, or undertaking belonging to, authorised to be
constructed by, or in the possession of the other of them, or any part
thereof; either solely or jointly with the other of such companies, or
with any other company or companies, party or parties, and for or
with reference to the accommodation, collection, transmission, de-
livery, management, regulation, and interchange of the traffic thereon,
and for or with reference to the tolls, rates, and duties to be taken
thereon and in respect thereof, and the collection, appropriation, ap-
portionment and distribution of such tolls, rates, duties, and other
income and profits arising from the railways, canals, works, or un-
dertaking comprised in such contract agreement, or arrangement,
and also for or with reference to the supply, provision, repairs, and
use of rolling sto^k, the employment, remuneration, and dismissal
of officers and servants, and for or with reference to the exercise and
enjoyment by each oiNher of the said companies of all or any of the
rights, privileges, and era of the other of them, either solely or
jointly with the other of s h companies ; and to enable either of the
said companies to levy tolls or rates upon the railways or canals be-
longing t in tossession of, or authorised to be constructed by the
other of them, and if necessary or expedient, to alter the tolls or rates
now leviable upon those railways or canals, or any of thenl/4
And it is also psopNsed by the said intended act to take Rowers
for the appointment by either of the said companies of directors of
the other of such companies, and to enable the said companies,
jointly 2r either of them severally to appoint committees for the pnr-
polies' of such contracts, agreements, and arrghigesients as afore-
said: _ . •

And it is also proposed by the said intended act to alter, amend,
extend, enlarge, or to repeal all or some of the powers and 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 consolidate the London and Birmingham Grand Junction and
Manchester and Birmingham Railway Companies;" and the several
other act+ distinguished in the Queen's printers' copies f the 10..al
end personal acts as Bth and 9th Vic., chapters 36. 37, 43, 105, 11 I,
112, 123, 156, and 198: 9th Vic., chapter 67 ; 9th and 10th Vic.,
chapters 80, 82, 152, 182, 192, 193, 231, 232, 233, 244, 248, 259, °GI,
262, 269, 300, 309, 322, 323, 324, 328,§331, 359, 368, 369, 380, and
396; 10th and 11th Vic., chapters 73, 107, 114, 118, 120, 121, 132,
139, 159, 161, 178, 188, 228, 236, 270, 278, and 294: 11 th and 12th
ie., chapters, 58, GO, and 130 ; 12th vrut 13th Vic., chapter 74 ; 13th
and 14th Vic., chapter 36 ; 14th Vic., chapter 28 ; 14th and 15th Vic.,
chapter 94; 15th Vic.. chapters 98 and 105 ; and 16th and 17th V c.,
chapters 97, 110, 157, 160, 161, 205, 216, and 222 ; and also of the
following Acts of Parliament relating to the Midland Railway Com-
pany (that is to say): local and person?! acts, 7th and Bth Vic.,
chapters 18 and 59 ; Bth and 9th Vic , chapters 38, 49, 56, 90, and
181 ; 9th and 10th Vic., chapters 51, 102, 156, 157, 163,203, 243, 254,
255, 272, 301, 311, 326, and 340 ; 10th and 11th Tic., chapters 122,
135, 150,191, 214, 215, and 270; 11th and 12th Vic., chapters 21.88,
and 131 ; 14th and 15th Vic , chapters 57, 88, and 113 ; 15th Vic.,
chapter 98; 16th Vic., chapter 33; and 16th and 17th Vic., chapter
108.

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And Notice is hereby further given, that on or before the thirty-
first day of December next, printed copies of the bill for effecting
the objects specified in this notice, will be deposited in the Private
Bill-office of the House of Commons.
Dated this 11th day of November, 1853.
BERRIDGE, MACAULAY, and MORRIS,
Leicester.
S. CARTER,
SWIFT and WAGSTAFF, Solicitors.
32, Great George-street,
Westminster.