The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-19 00:00:00

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BIR-K N HEAD DOCK TRUSTEES.
(EXTENSION of TIME for COMPLETION of WOtiKS
and Exercise of-certain Powers ; Regalations as to Construction of
Sea or WlJerf ]Vail and other Works ; Levying Additional Rates,
slid Alteration of Birkenhead Dock and Liverpool Dock Rates, and
Amendment of Acts.)
Notied • IS' hel'eby given, that APPLICATION is intended to be
tirade to PARLTAMEIsTT in the ensuing Session for an ACT to
atter, amend, 'extend, and enlarge, and to repeal some of the
powers,xestrietions, and provisions of the _several Acts of Parlia-
ment following, or some of them, relating to the Birkenhead Docks;
(that is to say), Local and Personal, 7th and Bti Vict., cap. 79;
Bth and cap.'4 ; 10th and Ilth Viet., caps. 264 and 265;
th and 12th Vfet:; cap. 144.
And it- is proposed by the said intended -Act to extend the
periods limited fiy the said recited Acts, or some of them, for
the completion of the works by such Acts authorised, and to
authorise vessels, though of greater burden than 200 tons, to
resort 63 and use, 'either permanently or for an extended period,
the tidal' or conkers basin at Woodside, and the entrance or passage
thereto referred to in the said recited Acts, for the purpose of passing
:Lob or .ifit of Wallasey Pool sad the Docks communicating there-
with.; aud,to alter or repeal such of the provisions and restrictions
of the said Act,. 10th and llth Vict., cap. 264, as limit the period
during which such vessels may resort to and use the said tidal or
Coasfenfbasin, and di provide for, or in any Manner relate to, the
closing of the said entrance er passage, and the discontinuance of the
use thereof., and- also.lo repeal such of the powers and restrictions
of the same Ant-as. provide, for the suspension of certain of the
powers of the said Act until all - the moneys ralsol under the
authority and
_for the purposes of the said Act 7th and Bth
Viet., cap.' 79, and-not expended for the ptirposes of such
fast-mentioned -Act; should have been replaced- sad made
available• for the • objects for which the same were origi-
nally raised, or until security should have been given to,
the satisfa.c,tion-of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods,
Forests, Land lievenues, Works, and Buildings, that such moneys
would be repaid and re-instated and expended, as in the: said Act
10th and'llth 'net., cap. 264, is provided ; and also to postpone the
operation of such of the provisions of the said Acts, or some of
them, ao direct' that in certain events therein specified the land,
Roil, aud.shorelelonging to or claimed by her Majesty, and which
shall have been. granted, taken, or used for the purposes of the said
Acts, shall revert to her Majesty, her heirs and sticceseors.
And 1% is 'proposed by the said intended Act to alter or vary the
tolls, rates, or duties payable for or in respect of the use of the docks,
basins, wharfs, tmd other works and conveniences belonging to,the
mid trustees ; and to, alter the mode of sagessbag such toils; rates, or
duties, and to authorise the levying and imposition of new and addi-
tional tolls rates, and duties upon vessels or otherwise for or in
respeetOf'tlie use of the docks, basins, wharfs, sheds, gridirons,
Works, and eoni'eniences belonging to the said trustees, and to confer
exemptions from the payment-of tolls, rates, and duties. And also
to empower the said trustees to construct gridirons in or near to the
Woodside basin.

And it is also proposed by the slid' intended Act to alter or divert
the line or course of a portion of the sea or wharf wall by the said
recited Acts, or some or one of them, authorised to be constructed
at the north side of Wallasey Pool, such diversion or alteration to
commence at or near a certain creek of the said Pool numbered 24,

in the township of Poulton-cum-Seacombe, in the parish of Wal-
lasey, in the county of Chester, on the plans referred to in the second
recited Act, and to terminate at or near a certain land called the
Neff, numbered 31, in the said township and parish on the said
plans.
And is is also proposed by the said intended Act to empower the
said Trustees to contract and agree with the Commissioners of her
Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings,
for the purchase, lease, or grant •f all or any part of the soil or
shore of Wallr.sey Pool and of the River Mersey, adjoining or near

ti the said Pool, to which her Majesty, in right of her Crown, may
for the time being be, or claim to be, entitled ; and also to contract
and agree with all or any other persons or corporations having, or
claiming, any estate, right, or interest in the said soil
or shore, or any part thereof, for the purchase, lease, or grant
thereof, and to authorise the said Commissioners, and all
such other persons and corporations, to convey, lease,
or grant the same to the said Trustees, and, further
to empower the said Trustees to sell, lease, or grant all or any part
of the said soil or shore which may have been so acquired by them,
and which shall be within or to the westward of the site of the in-
tended embankment across Wallasey Pool, mentioned in the fl,st-
recited Act, to all or any of the owners of, or persons intereste,: in,
the land or ground immediately abutting upon the said soil or shore,
and to empower such owners or other persons to purchase or take
leases of the same : and also to empower the said trustees to convey,
lease, or grant to any person or persons all or any part of the said
soil or shore which shall be on the outside or to the eastward of the
said intended embankment, and to raise money on the security of
the said soil or shore or any part thereof.

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And it also proposed by the said intended Act to alter the pro-
visions contained in the said recited Acts, or some of them, with
respect to the construction of the sea or wharf wails thereby autho-
rised, and to empower the owners of any land fronting Wallasey Pool
to construct from time to time so much of the said sea or wharf
walls as shall front their said lands respectively, subject to such con-
ditions and restrictions as shall be provided by the said intended
Act, or as shall be mutually agreed upon between the said Trustees
and such respective owners.
And Notice is hereby further given, that plans and sections of
the said intended alteration or diversion of the said sea or wharf
walls, together with a book ofreference to such plans, and a copy of
this notice, as published in the" London Gazette," will be deposited
on or before the 3.th day of November, In the present year, with
the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Chester, at his office at
Chester, and with the Parish Clerk of the parish of Wallasey at his
residence.

And it is further proposed by the said intended Act t• alter or
vary the exisring tolls, rates, dues, or duties, or some of them,
now payable to the Trustees of the 'Liverpool Docks, for the pur-
poses of exempting and to exempt from the payment of such tolls,
rates, dues, and duties, all vessels (and the cargoes of such
vessels, which shall discharge any of their cargoes in the River
Mersey, and shall afterwards enter the Birkenhead Docks, or
any of the basins connected therewith, for the purpose
of discharging the residue of their cargoes therein, and
shall not enter or use the docks or basins belonging to the
Trustees of the Liverpool Docks for the purpose of discharging
any part of their cargoes therein, and for such purpose to repeal,
wholly •r in part, or to alter, amend, explain, extend, and enlarge
some •f the powers and provisions contained in the Acts following,
relating to the Docks and Harbour of Liverpool, or some of them ;
(that is to say), Acts passed respectively in the eighth year of the
reign of Queen Anne, in the third year of the reign of King George
the First, in the eleventh year of the reign of King George the Se-
cond, in the second, twenty-fifth, thirty-ninth, flfty•9rst, fifty-third,
and fifty-ninth years of the reign of King George the Third, respec-
tively; in the sixth year, and two several Acts passed in the ninth
year of the reign of King George the Fourth, and Acts passed respec-
. _ _

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Lively in the session Mil in the eleventh year of the said last-men-
tioned reign, and in the first year of the reign of King William the
Fourth ; and in the fourth, and in the sixth and seventh, and in the
seventh and eighth, and in the eighth, and in the ninth and tenth,
and in the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign:of her present
Majesty.- - - -

Dated thLs'l2th day of!November, 1849.
AMBROSE WALX, Solicitor for the Bill

FF ASTERN UNION RAILWAY. - MAN-
NINGTREE to HARWICH and HARWICH PIER.—
EXTENSION of TIME for PURCHASE of LANDS and COM-
PLETION of WORKS.—POWERS to SECURE CERTAIN AD-
VANTAGES to the CAPITAL RAISED for PAYING OFF MORT-
GAGE DEBT.—AMENDMENT of ACTS.

Notice is hereby given, that APPLICATION is intended tO he
made to PARLIAMENT in the next Session for an ACT to extend
the period limited by " the Eastern Union and Harwich Railway
and Pier Act, 1847," for the compulsory purchase of lands and houses
for the pnrposes of the railways, branch railways, and works, and
of the pier, by such Act authorised ; and also to extend the re-
spective periods limited by the said Act for the completion of the
said railways, branch railways, and works, and of the said pier,
and to continue all powers conferred by the said Eastern Union
and Harwich Railway and Pier Act, 1847, and the Acts incor-
porated therewith, for executing the said railway., branch
railways, pier, and works, or otherwise in relation to the
same, and to authorise the levying of tolls, rates, and duties in
respect of the said railways, branch railways, pier, and works, and
the alteration of tolls, rates, and duties now leviable upon or in
respect of the same. And it is also proposed by the said intended
Act to authorise the Eastern Union Railway Company to raise the
_capital which they are authorised to create under the powers of their
existing Acta for the redemption of the mortgage or bond debt of the
said Company by the Creation of a new stockier shares, of such no-
minal valtie, and with such privileges attached of priority or prefe-
rence in the parnent of dividend to all existing classes of stock or
shares in the said Company, as may be already possessed by the
helderS of bonds or of mortgages, or as may be determined upon by
the said Company or enacted by Parliament; and to authorise and
empower the said Company, and the holders of mortgages or bonds
granted by the said company, to enter into mutual avangements for
the substitution and allotment of such new stock or shares In lieu
and in payment of such mortgages or bonds, and to place the holders
of such new stock or shares in the same position, as nearly as may
be, with the holders of the mortgages or bonds granted by the'said
company as aforesaid.
Aud it is also proposed by the said intended Act to enable the
said Company, and the holders of any of the new stock or shares
to be created as aforesaid, from time to time to enter into such
mutual arrangements as they shall think fit for the redemption
and commutation of all or any of the peculiar rights or privileges
which are or may be attached to such new stock or shares in the
said Company, and to provide that the consent of a certain propor-
tion of the holders of any such new stock or shares shall bind the
remainder of the holders of the same iu respect of any such arrange-
ments as aforesaid ; and also that the consent of a certain proportion
of any existing class of shareholders in the Company shall bind the
remainder of the shareholders in any such class in respect of any
arrangement with reference to the capital of the said Companywhich
May hereafter be found necessary or expedient, and generally to
imake such arrangements with reference to the existing or future
-capital of the Company as may be expedient or doterrained upon by
the 'said Company.

And it is also proposed by the said Intended Act to alter, amend,
extend, vary, enlarge, or repeal the powers and provisions of the
several local and personal Acts of Parliament hereinafter men-
tioned (that is to say), 7th and Bth Vict., chap. 85 ; Sth aid 9th
Viet., chap. 94 ; 9th and 10th Viet., chap. 97 ; 10th and 11th Viet..
chap. 225; 9th Vict., chap. 53; 10th Viet., chap. 19; Bth and
9th Vict., chap. 97 ' • 9th and 10th Vict., chap. 280; 10th and 11th
Vict., chap. 137; 10th and I ltk Viet., chap. 174; 12th and 13th
Vict., chap. 92.
Dated the 10th day of November, 1849.
YEW and Co., Covent-garden.
W. O. and W. HUNT, 10, Whitehall.