The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-28 00:00:00

OXFORD, WORCESTER, and WOLVER-
HAMPTft, BIRMINGHAM, and OXFORD JUNCTION,
and GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANIES (PUR-
CHASE of the STRATFORD-UPON-AVON CANAL NAVI-
GATION.

Notice is hereby Given, that ApPLICATION is intended to be
made to PARLIAMENT in the ensuing Session for a BILL to
authorise and enable the Company of Proprietors of the Stratford-
upon-Avon Canal Navigation, and the Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton Railway Company. or one of them, to convey and assign
to the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Company and to
the Great Western Railway Company, or one of them, the Strat-
ford-upon-Avon Canal, and all the lands, property, an I effects,
powers, rights, and privileges of or belonging to the said Company
of Proprietors, and the said Oxford, Worcester. and Wolverhampton
Railway Company, or either of them, in relation to or connected
with the undertaking of the said Canal Navigation ; and to take
powers for the vesting of the said Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, and
all the lands, property, and effects, powers. rights, and privileges
aforesaid, in the said Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Com-
pany and the said Great Western Railway Company, or one of them ;
and to enable the two last-mentioned Companies, or one of them,
to take and hold the said canal, lands, property, and effects, and to
exercise and enjoy the powers, rights, and privileges aforesaid, and
to levy tolls, rates, and duties upon or in respect of the said Canal
Navigation, and to raise a fnrther sum of money for the purposes
aforesaid, and, if need be, to dissolve the said Company of Proprietors
of the said Canal Navigation ; and to vary or extinguish all rights
and privileges in relation to the said Canal Navigation which would
interfere with the purposes aforesaid.
And it is also intended to insert in the said Bill such provisions as
may be deemed expedient for securing the completion of the purchase
aforesaid within a time to be limited by the said Bill.
.A nd it is also intended by the said Bill, so far as may be deemed
requisite for the purposes thereof, to alter, amend, repeal, enlarge, or
extend the powers and provisions of the several Acts of Parliament
hereinafter mentioned, or some of them ; (that is to say), certain Acts
relating to the said Stratford-upon-Avon Canal Navigation, passed
respectively in the 33d, the 35th, the 39th, the 49th, the 85th, and the
57th years of the reign of King George the Third, and in
the 2d year of the reign of King George the Fourth a
and also the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Act,
1846, and the Birmingham and Oxford Junction (Birmingham Exten-
sion) Railway Act, 1846; and an Act passed in the 11th and 12th
years of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled " An Act to
confer additional Powers on the Great Western Railway Company
with reference to an Agreement of the 12th November, 1848, for the
purchase by them of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction, and
Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley Railways;" and also
the Great Western Railway (Leamington dine) Act, 1848 ; and
also the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Act, 1845 ;
the Oxford, Worcester; and Wolverhampton (Amendment) Act,
1846 ; the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway (Amend-
ment) Act, 1848; the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton
Railway (Deviation) Act, 1848 • and also the several Acts fol-
lowing, dirently or indirectly relating to or affecting the Great
We-tern Railway Company, which Acts (local and personal) are
distinguished In the Queen's printers' copies thereof as the 5 and 6
William IV., c. 107; 6 William IV., c. 36 ; 6 Wiliam IY., c. 38 ;
6 William LV., c. 77; 6 William IV., c. 79; 1 Victoria, c. 91 ; 1
Viet., c. 92 ; 1 Viet., c. 24 ; 1 Viet., c. 26 ; 2 Viet., c. 27 ; 3 Viet.,
c. 47 ; 3 and 4 Vict., c. 105 ' • 4 and 5 Viet., c. 41 ; 5 Vict.,
Sess. 2, c. 28 ; 5 Vict., c. 10 ; 7 Vict., c. 3 ; 7 and 8 Viet.,
c. 68 ; 8 and 9 Vict., c. 40 ; 8 and 9 Viet., c. 53 ; 3 and 9
Vic., c. 155 ; 3 and 9 Vict., c. 156 ; 8 and 9 Vict., c. 184 ;
8 and 9 vict., c. 188 ; 8 and 9 Vict., c. 190 ; 8 and
Vict., c. 191 ; 9 Vict.. c. 14 ; 9 mid 10 Vict., c. 166 ; 9 and 10
Vic ~ c. 181 ; 9 and 10 Vict., c. 236; 9 and 10 Vict., e. 239; 9 and
10 et., c. 240 ; 9 and IC Vict., c. 278 ; 9 and 10 Vict., c. 313 ; 9
and 10 Vict., c. 315 ; 9 and 10 Vict., c. 335 ; 9 an 110 Viet.. c. 3 7 ;
9 and 10 Vice., c. 338 ; 9 and 10 Via. c. 369 ; 9 and 10 Vict., c.
402 ; 10 and 11 Vict., C. 60 ; 10 and II Vict., c. 72 ; 10 and 11
V.ct., c. 76 ; 10 and 11 Vict., C. 91 ; 10 and 11 Vict., c. 101; 10 and
11 Viet., c. 109 ; 10 and 11 Vict., 0. 149 ; 10 and 11 Vict., c. 154 ;
10 and 11 Viet., c. 226 ; 10 and 11 Vict., c. 243 ; 11 and 12 Viet., c.
28 ; 11 and 12 Vict„ c. 74 ; 11 and 12 Viet., c. 77 ; 11 an 112 Viet.,
c. 82 ; 11 and 12 Viet., c. 95 ; 11 and 12 Viet., c. 135 ; 11 and 12
V et., c. 158 ; 11 and 12 Vict , c. 159.
Dated thin 7th day of November, 1849.