The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-19 00:00:00

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY
COMPANY.
To confer Additional Powers on the Company with reference to the
Agreement hereinafter mentioned for the Purchase of the Bir-
mingham and Oxford Junction and the Birmingham, Wolver-
hampton, and Dudley Railways.
Whereas, an Agreement was catered into on the 12th day of No-
vember, 1846, between the Directors of the Great Western Railway
Company and the Directors of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction
Railway, and of the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Rail-
way Companies, for the purchase of the said two Lines by the Great
Western Railway Company; whereby provision was, among other
things, made fur the purchase by the Great IVestern Railway Com-
pany, of the said Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway and the
Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway, by certain pay-
ments, to be made at the times and in the manner and subject to
the conditions therein specified ; for providing that the Great West-
ern Railway Company should supply any further capital required
for the purposes of the said Companies beyond the capital of such
Comp lines respectively ; for the Amalgamation of the Birmingham
and Oxford Junction and Itirmingham, Wolverhampton, and Du
ley Companies; and for obtaining powers to lay down the broad
gauge, in addition to the narrow, on the said two Railways ; and for
blending the Great Western Board with the Directors of the Amal-
gamated Companies, in such manner as to give the Great Western
Railway Company an effectual control over the expenditure of the
said Companies; and providing that all necessary powers should be
sought for front Parliament to give effect to the said Agreement :
NO W _NOTICE is hereby given, that application is intended to be made
to Parliament, in tha,ensuing Session, for an Act, for the purpose of
granting to the Gr.* Western Railway Company such powers as
may be necessary to 'give effect to such (if any) of the provisions of
the said Agreement hereinbefore mentioned, as may be facilitated or
better effected by the further aid of Parliament.

And it is proposed by the said intended Act, and so far as may be
deemed requisite for the purposes thereof, to alter, amend, repeal, en-
large or extend the powers and provisions of the several Acts of Par-
liament hereinafter mentioned : (that is to say) the several Acts fol-
lowing, relating to or affecting the Great Western Railway Company,
the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Company,
and the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway
Company, which Acts (Local and Personal) are distinguished
in the Queen's Printers' copies thereof as the 5 and 6 William
IV. cap. 107 ; 6 William IV. cap. 36 ; 6 William IV. cap. 38 ;
6 William IV., cap. 77 ; 6 William IV., cap. 79 ; 1 Victoria, cap. 91;
I Victoria, cap. 92 ; 1 Victoria, cap. 24 ; 1 Victoria, cap. 26 ;
2 Victoria, cap. 27 ; 3 Victoria, cap. 47 ; 3 and 4 Victoria, cap. 105;
4 and 5 Victoria, cap. 41 ; 5 Victoria, Session 2, cap. 28 ;
6 Victoria, cap. 10 ; 7 Victoria, cap. 3 ; 7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 68 ;
8 and 9 Victoria, cap. 40 ; 8 and 9 Victoria, cap. 53 ; 8 and 9 Victoria,
cap. 155 ; 8 and 5 Victoria, cap. 156; 8 and 9 Victoria, cap. 184 ;
8 and 9 Victoria, cap. 188 ; 8 and 9 Victoria, c ,p. 190 ; 8 and 9
Victoria, cap. 1; 9 Victoria, cap, 14 ; 9 and 10 Victoria, cap. 166 ;
9 and 10 Victoria, cap. 181 ; 9 and 10 Victoria, cap. 236 : 9 and 10
Victoria, cap. 239 ; 9 and 10 Victoria. cap. 240 ; 9 and 10 Victoria,
cap. 278 ; 9 and 10 Victoria, cap. 313 ; 9 and 10 Victoria, cap. 315 ;
9 and 10 Victoria, cap. 335 ; 9 and 10 Victoria, cap. 337 ; 9 and
10 Victoria, cap. 338 ; 9 and 10 Victoria, cap. 369; 9 and 10 Victoria,
cap. 402 ; 10 and 11 Victoria, cap. 60 ; 10 and 11 Victoria, cap. 72 ;
10 and 11 Victoria, cap. 76 ; 10 and 11 Victoria, cap. 91 ; 10 and II
Victoria, cap. 101 ; 10 and 11 Victoria, cap. 109 ; 10 and 11 Victoria,
cap. 149 ; 10 and II Victoria, cap. 154 ; 10 and 11 Victoria, cap.
226 ; 10 and 11 Victoria, cap. 243.

Dated 9th November, 1847.
W. 0. and W. MINT, 10, Whitehall, London.
OSBORNES and CO., Bristol.