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taken by the said intended act to dissolve the said Birkenhead, Lan-
cashire, and Chsshire 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
agrecnieuts tor affecting' all or any of the purposes aforesaid, and to
confirm ail existing agreements between such two companies or their
directors w th reference thereto.
And It is proposed by the said Intended act (if necessary.or expe-
dient) to autborisA the Loudon and North-Western Railway Com-
pany to rare a further sum of money for the purposes thireor, or any
of them,-by the creation of new shares in their undertaking, either
with or wi',,hout ,preference or priority in payment of interest or
dividend, ot by borrovv ing oa mortgage or bond.

And it is proposed by the said intended act—to enable the Dirket]-
: head, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction hallway Company, the
London alai North-Western hallway Company, and the Chester and
Holyhead Railway Company, or any two of those companies, to make,
o ter into, and carry into effect such contracts and arrattgements,
on such ter ~a and conditions, and sut,ject to such restr,ctions as
may be or may have been mutually agreed upon by or on behalf of
those companies, oreither of them respectively, with ref:re/me to the
conduct, vv,rking, management, and direction of the traffic, or any
~ortion of the traffic, upon their respective ralways or any part
thereof, and the division and apportionment of such traffic, and the
tolls, rates, and charges arising therefrom, between and autos at
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 sad 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 cominittee or otherwise such of the rights, powers, or
privileges, •Ivliother with reference to the levying of toll 4, rates, and
, duties, or otherwise, /IC,V or hureatter vested in or beloughr, to the
' said comeauies 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 more effectually carrying into effect ally snuecchescsoanrytraocr arrange-
ments.tesxocriecl.entfo
And it is proposed by the said intended act to confirm all or am
agreements now or hereafter to be enteral into betweea the said
companies, or any of them, or on their behalf with reference to all
or any of the purposes lastly bereinbefore mentioned.
And it ii Proposed by the said Intended act to authori eth altera-
tion or revision of the toils, rates, and duties at p ent leviable upon.' '
the railways of the said companies, or any of them,re' and to confer
such exemptions from the payment of sueli to ls, rates, and duties, or
any of them, ai may be thought neoessary or exnedient.
And Notice is hereby lastly given, that on or before the 31st day
of December in the 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. LLO ISolietors for
SWIFr and WAGiTAFF,
.1 the Bill.

TORQUAY and NORTH DEVON EXTEN-
SION. RAlLWAY.—(lncorporation of Company for making
a R ilway tram the Pier or Harbour at Torquay to the Torques
Branch of the South. Devon Railway, and a Branch to a Point near
Licermead Muse. Power to the South Devon Railway Company to
Subscribe, 8:-.e Amendment of Acts of that Company.)
NO LICE Is 'HEREBY GIVEN, That application is intended
to be made to Parliament in the Session 01 1854 for an Act to
incorporate ti Company, and to enable such Company to make and
maintain a R ailway and Branch Railway, with all proper stations,
works, approstehes, and conveniences connected therewith respec-
'lvelY, the Ra away to commence at and from the Torqu :y Branch of
the south Des on 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 Ceckington, 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 intender I railway at a point on the sea shore about five fur-
longs in a westei ay direction trim the Western side of Vie Torquay
Harbour, to pass. thence through or into the parishes or places of
Tormoham otherwise Tormohun aforesaid, Ceckington and Tor-
Abbey, or some of them, and to terminate near ! ivermead House in
the parisle of Coe kingtcn, by a junction with a projected line of Rail-
way from the Sot ith Devon Railway to Brigham and Dartmouth.
And it is proposed by the saidintended 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 is ► vary or extinguish all existing rights and ply'.
leges in any mane ter 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-
isting tolls, rates, and duties, and to confer, vary, or extinguish
exemptions from Esayments 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, servo s, pipes, canals, navigations, bridges, railways,
or train roads, witl.ain 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 31t1s clay
of November inst., maps, plans, and sections, showing the direction,
line, and levels f 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 Loud, in Gazette, will be deposited with the Clerk of the
Peace for the coinu :y of Devon, at his office at the Castle of Exeter
in the said county ; and that on or bete -e the same day a copy cif so
much of the said plans, sections, and book of reference as relates to
each parish in or Um lough which the railway and works are intend ed
to be made, togethc r with a copy of this notice, as published in the
Gazstte, N. till be deposited with the parish clerk of each
such parish, at his place of abode.
And kis also proposed by the said act to authorise the South Des on
Railway Company to subscribe and contribute t -wards the said Un-
dertaking, and to at ply any capital or funds, now or hereafter lie-
longing to them, or- under the control of their directors, to that pur-
pose, or to raisa ad d tional 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 sa!d South Devon Railway Company to
vote at meetings of the said company to be incorporated as at' re-
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 Dev on
Railway Company, a •nd otherwise with respect to the said railways,
anti to confirm all or any such arrangements as may havebeen entei led
into prior to the passis Ig of the said intended act; and it is al4o propls ied
by the said act to authorise the cony thereby incorporated to i Ise
with their engines andt carriages the South Devon Railway, and lite
stations, approaches, sidings, s atering places, and works connects
therewith, upon such terms as may be agreed upon or be providt d
for by the said act.

And Notice is herby further Giv.n. That on or before the 31i ,t
day of December in the present year printed copies of the Bill is r
effcctitw the objects rpecitled in this notice will be deposited in th e
Private Di l-othce of :the House of Commons.
And it is r'roposed by the said intended act to alter, amend, es.-
tend, vary, or repeal the following Acts of Parliame t. relating to
the South Devon Da.:-Iway Company (that is to say) local and per-
sonal acts —7 and 8 Vle., cal, 68 : 9 and 10 Vic., cads. 238 and 40:1:
10 and 11 Vic. cap 24 2 ; and 14 and 15 Vic., cap. 53.
Dated this eleventh: day of November, 1853.
Ii ESNA.WAY and BUCKINGHAM, Exeter ;
51 *. and C. KITSON, Torquay ;
Solicitors for the 8111. I

CALEDONIAN RAILWAY...,
LESMAII.s 11V B ANCIJES ; REVIV &f of POWER:
RELINQUISHMEN '3! of WORKS ; ARRANGEMENT of SHAR E
and LOAN CAPITA L ; and AMENDMENT of ACTS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVICN, That application is intended 'to
be m ide to Partisan: nt, in next session, for leave to bring in a NM
to empower the Calelonian Railway Company, or the Holders .5f
the Lesarthag,ow Brai aches Shares in that Company, to make, com-
plete, and maintain the following lines of Railway, now partly in
course of construction, or one or more of them, and all propedr
works and convenienites connected therewith, 'OZ. :
First, A railway commencing by a junction with the Motherwe B
Branch of the Clyde ;dale Junction Railway at a point in the p I-
rish of Hamilton nee r the village of Motherwell, and terminatii ig
at a point in the pat ish of Lesmahagow, on the lands of Banken 5,
near Coal Burn Head; which railway, and works connected there-
with, will be situate in the parishes of Hamilton, Dalziel, Maisel f,
and Lestnahagow, all in the county of Lanark.
Secondly, A branch,. railway commencing by a junction with th e
said intended railway at a point near Kaiminghill or Commonhll,..,
and terminating at a point near North Southfield, all in the sat
parish of Lesmatiagosv : and
fhi rd ly, A branch :railway commencing by a junction with the sal d
Intended railway at a:. point near Auchenheath colliery, and term I.
mating at a point on the lands of Nether Hall hill, near Little Gin
Coal flit. aO in the sa 'd parish of Lesnuthagow.
And Notice is fun: der Given, that duplicate plans and sections;,
describing the lines, situation, and levels of the said intended work t,
and Cie lands, houses., and other property through which the saw;
arc intended to be min le, and within the limits of deviation as della( d
on the said plans, or which nifty be required to be taken for tl
purpose of such work'', together with a book of reference to such'.
plane, containing the trances of the owners or reputed owners, lesseies:
or reputed lessees and occupiers of such lands, houses and pr meets-.
and a published map t o a scale of not less than half an inch to a
mile, with the lines c f the proposed railways delineated there° e.
so as to show their get teral course and direction, and a copy of this
notice es published in the London and Edinburgh Gazette;i,
will, on or before tt a thirtieth day of November current, tie
depo,lteel f,r public in•ipectlaii in the offices at Glasgow, Hamitic) n
and Lanark, respect' rely, of the principal Sheriff-Clerk im
the county of Lanark.; and that a copy of so much of the sa
id
plans, sections, and boo K of reference as relates to each of th.. parish "s
before specified, with a copy of title notice as published in the sa
Gazettes, will, also on or before the thirtieth day of November cu
rent, bo deposited for ; iublic inspection with the schoolmaster, or,
there be no schoolmaq or, with the session clerk of each such parka if
h,
at the usual place of abode of each such schoolmaster or session
clerk.

Anil it is further int ended by the said bill, to 'aPply for powers t as
de'iatc in the construe tient of the said several works from the lint a
and levels delineated m t the plans and sections intended to be dept ~•
sited as aforesaid, to sit ch an extent as will be defined on the sal d
plans, and provided by the said bill ; and also to cross, alter, diver t
end stop up highways, turnpike and other roads, railways, bridges {,
streets, paths, passages , rivers, canals, streams, sewers and water -
courses, so far as may 1 to necessary or expedient for the purpose e r
making, maintaining, a nd using the said several works or any of th e
conveniences conuectes 1 therewith.
And it is further int ended by the said bill to confer powers ft 1'
the purchase, compute wily or by agreement, of the lands. house:.,
and other property re (mired for the purposes aforesaid ; and alt o
for the acquisition of a itch lands, houses, and other property by wa y
of lease or feu, and to empower all parties possessed thereof, c..r holding interests therein, to convey, feu or let the same to th e
Caledonian Railway Company, or the holders of the said Lesma s
hagow Branches tiharet,i, for the purposes of the said works, in con -
sideration of such price , feu duty, ground annual, or rent, as mu; I'
be agreed upon.
And it is further int ended by the said bill to confer powers far
levying tolls, rates, and ..!barges on and for the use of the said Intends ti
works and the Convey, ince of traffic thereon, and to confer certaic I
exemptions from the pa iement of such tolls, rates and charges. And it is further bates ided by the said bill to revive the powers an i
extend the time grant ed by the Caledonian Railway (Motherai, t
cell
Branch Extension) Ain C. 1847, the Caledonian Railway
Kew Branches) Act, 18 47, and the Caledonian Railway. (letssiimn,s of
aihit-
gow Branche.) Act, 18 Cl, for the construction of such portions
the railway from the N otherwell Branch of the Clydesdaleri June
tit
near Mother well, to the Auchenhea,lo nerai Fieldju tie a
tr
Connellholm, described in the first alatovrek-inni,, to a pointact,entioned on toe
arirlof
the branch railway frcim a point near Forkins,
land of Bankend, desci %bed in the second act,above-mentionednli,
do not tiller (beyond the st gatorY limits of deviation) tec4 It
rs '
levels from the said worts as now proptoosebdetodbepoe constructed,sitedm
delineated on the plans and sections,
timeafogrnasnatits:.4;
and, e &it
and also to revive the powers and exthcansde
thereby authorise,
by the said acts for Ole compulsory pure
lands, houses, and other proPertys the
of t ctco r t
branchba
el
railway
acquire t
de.
for the aforesaid portions of the sid. railwoaf
rallway an ti
whole thereof.
and to relinquish the r emaining portions
relinquish the
ythaendmlii
branch railway, or othei
And it is further lute nded by
sal i last mentioned act, an
'wise
to
the said bill to alter the amounat
tot f,
preferences and!
the share capital nrescri bed by the s
confer upon
, as also to authorise the bor .
a portion of 'such share capital certain
a tion of such share capita 1
priorities over the rema ' nide!'
to the execution of the work .1
rowing i.f a suns of mow I.Y. and the APP. na
and borrowed money, or part thereof,
before described.
And it is the said bill to empower the Calede,.
further inten. led by
Wan Railway Company,
and the holders of the saidonLesmahagovr
anagement,
Breeches Stares, or thei r committee, to enter into agreements with
each other in relation to t ;be construction, maintenance
,management, works, and the tolls, rates, and charm IS
and working of the said s. tve
the said company 's litres -
to be levied thereon, rod on . nes of rett-
way communicating 1g the rcwith ; as also to he holders c,t•
'
the said shares to enter into agreements with each other in relathrt
to their respective prtv lieges and priorities ; and to confirm ar‘ r
the
agreempurposesents whichforesal may have been entered into in relation to any c,f
a .
~
eats it is farther intemled by the said bill to vary or extinguish
in any alting rights and privileges which may
manner Im-
pede or interfere with tl se objects aforesaid, or any of thefts, and.
to confer other rights and privileges.
And for these and otht it purposes it is intended by the said bill
to amend the said several acts, and to extend certain of the powers
and provisiims thereof to the said bill, and also so far as necessary
to dotamen Caledoniani Railway Act 1845, and the several acts
relatinei the Caledonia a Rai AvilY Company, passed respectivel::
in the ninth and tenth, the tenth, the tenth and eleventh, the e'even.:ll
and
een twelfth, the twel th
f and thirteenth, the fourteenth and flif-
present Majesty, th sixteent:a end Seventeenth years of the reign oilier
to
And notice
adu is further gi-een, that copies of the said bill, as propose 3
he intr ced into Pwlisment, will be deposited in the Privet t.,
Of
RilDecel-officember next. of the Rouse Of Commons, on or before the thirty-first day

JOE& MARR, Lanark.
GRAIIAME. WEEMS & CRATTAME,
Westminster.

104 Noluibex, 1853.

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EVERT 'VALLEY RAILVei Y.—
L.7(Abandonment of present terminus at Shrewsl bury, and
junction with the Shrewsbury and Hereford Ra ilway at
Shrewsbury; construction of new station at Shrewsbury ;
powers to use the Shrewsbury and Chester Ratileray, the
Chester and Holyhead Railway, the Birkenhead, IJancashi
and Cheshire Junction Railway, the London and liorth-Wes-
tern Railway, the Shropshire Union Railways and Cianal, the
Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway, and the Shrowsbury
and Hereford Railway ' • Limitation of Tolls ; workinj or
otherarrangements with the several companies ; use of joint
station at Shrewsbury; and amendment of acts.)
Notice is hereby Given, that application is intended to be
made to Parliament in the ensuing Session for an act to enable
the Severn Valley Railway Company to abandon and relin-
quish the construction of so much of their main lino of rail-
way, by "the Severn Valley Railway, Act, 1853," authorised
to be made, as extends from the point marked thirty-ei,dit
miles on the plans referred to in the said act, in the pariah
of Saint Chad, in the county of Salop, to the authorised ter-
minus thereof iu the parish of Holy Cross and Saint Giles,
Shrewsbury, in the said county, which portion 'Of.Railway so
intended, to be abandoned is now authorisiAto be inure -with-
in the parishes of Saint Chad, Atchaia, and. Hilly Cross and
Saint Giles, Shrewsbury, in the said county, or some or one
of them :
And it is proposed by the said intended act to authorise
to make and maintain a
railway
S
ile
w:veyirtin
sNall
urbsteil
utilionlwfaoyr tChoemplOrtmiyon of railway so proposed
to be abandoned, with all proper stations, approaches, avorks,
and conveniences connected therewith, commencing from and,
out of the Severn Valley Railway, as now authorisoal to ba
made, at or near the said point marked thirty-eight n tiles, in
the said parish of Saint Chad, and county of Salop, end ter-
minating in the parish of Saint Julian Shrewsbury, in the
said county, by a junction with the Shrewsbury an d Here-
ford Railway at or near a point thereon three bundre d yards
or thereabouts southwards of a locomotive engine lionise re-
cently erected or now in the course of erection on or adjoin-
ing to that railway, which said intended railway and works
will be made and maintained from, in, through, or 'into or
be situate within the several parishes, townships, and extra-
parochial or other places of Berrington, Saint Chad, Betton,
Great Betton, Abbots Betton, Betton Abbots, Little Betton,
Bettou Strange, Betton and Alkmere, Frankwell, Atcham,
Attingham, Emstreo otherwise Emstrey, Chilton, Cronk
Hill, Berwick Mavison, Uckington, Longner, Sutton, Sutton
Mill, Meole Brace otherwise Brace Meole, Abbey Foregate
Shrewsbury, the Abbey Parish Shrewsbury, Holy Cross and
Saint Giles Shrewsbury, Saint Julian Shrewsbury, ne liberties
of Shrewsbury, the borough of Shrewsbury, Shrelrsbury,
Coleham, Trinity Coleham, and the Stone Ward Without
--Sh-fei—vsbury, in the said county of Salop, or some or ono of
them :
And it is also intended by the said act to enable this Severn
Valley Railway Company, either solely or jointly with the
London and North-Western Railway Company and the
Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway Company, or -with either
of them, to construct and maintain a station, with suitable
approaches, works, and conveniences, in the parishes, town-
ships or other places, of St. Julian Shrewsbury, Coli3ham,
Trinity Coleham, the Abbey Foregate Shrewsbury , the
Abbey Parish Shrewsbury, Holy Cross and St. Giles SI trews-
bury, Shrewsbury, the borough of Shrewsbury, the liberties
of Shrewsbury, and the Stone Ward Without Shrewsbury, in
the said county of Salop, or some or one of them, and also to
enable the Severn Valley Railway Company to enter into
contracts, agreements, and arrangements with those com-
panies, or with either of them, for and concerning the joint
construction, maintenance, and use of such station :
And it is also proposed by the said intended act to apply
for powers to enable the said Severn Valley Railway Com-
pany to make lateral deviations from the lines of the said
intended railway and works to the extent and withitu the
limits described upon the plans hereinafter mentioned.„ and
also to cross, stop up, alter or divert, whether terepararily
or permanently, all such turnpike and other roads and high-
ways, streets, railways, tramway; aqueducts, canals, tow-
ing-paths, streams, drains, pipes, rivers, navigation, and
other works within the aforesaid parishes, townships, and
extra-parochial or other places, or any of them, as it !nay be
necessary to cross, stop up, alter, or divert, by reason of the
construction of the said railway and other works or arty of
them :
And it is also intended by the said act to app 1-,N, for
powers for the purchase, by compulsion or otherwise, of
lands and buildings, for the purposes of the said intended
railway, station, and other works ; and to alter, vary, or
extinguish all existing rights and privileges connected with
such lands and buildings, or which would in any manner
impede or interfere with the construction, maintenance, and
use of the said intended railway, station, and other works,
Or any of them, and to confer, vary, or extinguish other
rights and privileges, and also to levy tolls, rates, and duties
for or in respect of the use of the said intended railway,
station, and other works, or any of them, and to alter
existing tolls, rates, and duties, and to confer, vary, or
extinguish exemptions from the payment of tolls, rates, and
duties :
And notice is hereby further given, that on or before the
thirtieth day of November instant, maps, plans, and sections,
showing the direction, line, and levels of the said intended
railway and other works, and the lands which may be taken
for the purposes of the same, together with a book of refer-
once to such plans, containing the names of the owners or
reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and of the occu-
piers of such lands, and also a copy of this not'oe, as pub-
lished 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 ; and that on or before the
slid thirtieth day of November a copy of so much of the
said plans, sections, and book of reference as relates to each
parish or extra-parochial place in or through which the said
railway and other works arc intended to be made, together
with a copy of this notice, published as aforesaid, will be de-
posited as follows (that is to say) : in the case of parishes,
with the parish clerk of each such parish, at his residence ;
and in case of any extra-parochial place with the parish clerk,
of some parish immediately adjoining thereto, at his resi-
dence :

And. Notice is hereby further Given, that it is aiso pro-
posed by the said intended act to empower the Severn Valley
Railway Company to apply to the purposes of the said in-
tended act, or some of them, any funds or capital already au-
thorised to be raised by them under their existing act, or
which now or hereafter may belong to them, or may be under
the control of their directors, and, if necessary, to raise a
further sum of money for the purposes of such act, or some
of them, by the creation and issue of new shares in their
undertaking, or by mortgage or bond, and to enable the
company to assign and attach, if they shall see fit, to any
shares to be created under the authority of the said intended
act, such guaranteed or preferential dividend, terms, condi-
tions, rights, or privileges, as the company shall see fit :
And it is also proposed by the said intended act to enable
the said Severn Valley Railway Company, or any other com-
pany, or persons lawfully using the lines authorised by " The
Severn Valley Railway Act, 1853," or by the intended act, to
run, pass over, and use with their engines, carriages, and wag-
gons, or with the engines, carriages, and 'Waggons, of such
other company or persons using and passing over the lines au-
thorised by the said act, or by the intended act, the: several
railways and stations, watering-places, sidings, offices, and
other works and conveniences, or some of them, or some part
or parts thereof, now or hereafter belonging jointly or seve-
rally to or under the joint or several management or regula-
tion of the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway Company, the
Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company, the Chester and
Holyhead Railway Company, the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction Railway Company, the London and North-
' Western Railway Company, the Shropshire Union Railways
and Canal Company, and the Shrewsbury and Birmingham
Railway Company, or any or either of them, upon payment
of such tolls, rates, and charges, or such sum or sums of mo-
ney, either annually or in gross, and in such manner and
upon such terms and conditions as shall be agreed upon be-
tweena
ndßathile saidway Company
several railway com-
pperaa
mentioned, or any of them, or as othernie a companytbhbefore
orssaid
i I
or Severn
Valleyna,as
hoall the
be said
pre-
scribed or provided for by the intended act- and also to apply
for powers to alter, limit, and regulate the tolls, rates, and.
duties authorised to be levied under the several acts herein-
after mentioned, or some of them, so far as the same shall ho
leviable in respect of such engines, carriages, and waggem,
works over,
du
conveniences,s using such
running,tiou s,a dPrthielirg
them, or any part or parts thereof:
o ra n 'e.4101 i 1 r'r eitheraYr' 5 t ;1
And it is also proposed by thei said intended act to autho-
rise the said Severn Valley Company, and the sail
several Railway Companies before or any or either
of them, to make and enter into and carry into effect such
contracts and. arrangements, ou such terms and conditions,
and subject to such restrictions, as may or may have been
mutually agreed upon by or on behalf of the Severn Valley
Railway Company and those Companies, or any or either of
them, with reference to the working and use of the Railway
or Railways, or any part or parts thereof, authorised by
" The Severn Valley Railway Act, 1853," or by the said in-
tended Act, and of the Railway or Railways, or any part or
parts thereof, now or hereafter belonging to the several Rail_
way Companies before mentioned, or any or either of them,
and the conduct, management, direction, and transmission
of the traffic, or any portion of the traffic, upon such Rail.-
ways, or any of them, or any part thereof, and the division
and apportionment of such traffic, and the tolls, rates, and
.charges arising therefrom, between the said Severn Valley
Railway Company and the said Companies before mentioned,
or any or either of them ; and to enable such Companies, or
any or either of them, to appoint a joint committee for carry-
ing into effect any such contracts or arrangements, and to
exercise, by means of such joint committee, or otherwise,
such of the rights, powers, and privileges, whether with re-
ference to the levying of tolls, rates, and duties, or otherwise
imp.
aenowrgeeer powers,
effectually new or hers after vested in or belonging to such Companies or
any or tither
contract
thaeim.
a,
no.ar
asgueemh
eoaft
,them d
allas amayaah beot partiesher
rights, o
any such
, and privileges as may. be necessary or expedient for
into effect any such contracts or ar-
yndeaitrrLinaglso proposed by the said intended act
lalor any agreements now or hereafter to be
to confirm ,
entered into between such Companies, or any or either of
them, or on their behalf, with reference to all or any of the
the saiadnadcßt tilo.meinuagbohliae.
Birmingham,
Severn
alleged
e.
"uArpnocilst beforei
is also mentioned
intended b
y:
Valley Railway Company, and the several companies late-
rested rested in the station at Shrewsbury belonging,
belong, jointly to the Shrewsbury
bury and Chester, and Shrewsbury
Companies, and the Shropshire
Company, or some of them, to makeUni ando
an Rae
mission of the Severn Valley Railway
in the said station, and for and e
Severn Valley Railway Company,
companies, or some of them of suc
watering-places, sidings,
or such portions thereof may
platforms,
houses, and other buildings andHerefordi Shrews.
ge to
Railway
ways and Canal
Cogr ements for the ad-
mpany as copartners
oncerning the use by the
jointly with such other
station, together with the
booking offices, ware.be necessary ; and also
conveniences connected there-
with,
and respective compel! Railway Company, and the seve-
ralto enable the Severn Valle
agree-
ments for and concerning the use of and passage over, with
engines, carriages, and companies aforesaid, to enter into agree-
portionawanfggtohnesloinf
etahenfSeravieirwan
yVablieeloyußaginiglwatyo
Company, such
Ches-
ter, and Shrewsbur
the said Shrewsbury andand Birmingham, Shrewsbury
iiSv‘h,raeywcsbnumrypaannidesC, hanesd-
tively, or any or either of them, the Shropshire Union aansdmaCyanabel
necessary
yy
fio•
use by the Severn Valley ers Plc;
Railway Company of such station or
any part thereof, and for and concerning the sums in gross,
by annual payments, or the rates, tolls, or other charges
which shall be paid by the Severn Valley Railway Company
to all or any of such other companies for or in respect of all
Or any of the matters aforesaid :
And it is also proposed by the said intended act to alter,
extend, vary, amend, enlarge, or consolidate all or some of the
powers and provisions of " The Severn Valley Railway Act,
1853 ;" and, if it should be deemed expedient so to do, to
repeal all or any part of the provisions of the said last-men-
tioned act, and to re-enact, with such alterations and amend-
ments as may bo requisite, so many of such provisions respec-
tively as may be desirable for the purpose or purposes afore.
said, or any of them, and for carrying. out and completing the
undertaking or undertakings of the mid company :
And for carrying into effect all or any of the above objects,
and so far as maybe necessary for such purposes, but not
further or otherwise, it is intended by the said act to alter,
amend, and enlarge, and if need be to repeal,
vary, extend,
of
all or some of the powers and provisions the several acts
following, relating to the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Rail-
wayor some of them (that is to say)localand Company,
sonal acts 9 and 10 Vie, caps. 307 and 308; 10 and 11 Vie
• 11 and 12 Vie., cap. 133 ; 12 and 13 Vi ''
cap. 80 , e-, cap, 85 ;
and 15 and 16 Vic., cap. 165: • • •
And aleo of the several acts following, relating to the

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