The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-29 00:00:00

MONKLAND AND KIRKINTILLOCH,
BALLOCIINEY, AND SLAMANNAN RAILWAYS
(AMALGAMATION, OR SALE,OR LEASE, AND AMENDMENT,
OR REPEAL OF ACTS) BILL.

Notice is hereby given, that application is intended to be made to
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the purposes following, or Pottle of them, that is to say : to authorise
and effect, or to enable the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway
Company, the Ballochney Railway Company, and the Slamannau
Railway Company, to effect an amalgamation of the said Companies,
and the undertakings belonging to them respectively, with each
other, and to form one Corpora alien •r Company of the said Cons-
Nudes, and to vest in such Amalgamated Company all the Capital,
Stock, Property, Lands, Heredltaments, Works. Estates, Effects,
Powers, Rights, Privileges, and Authorities, belonging, or which may
belong to, or be vested In the said Companies, proposed to be amal-
gamated, and to make provision for 'zing the share or interest in
the said Amalgamated Company of the Shareholders in the said
Monkland and Kirkintilloch, Ballechney, and Slamannan Railway
Companies respectively, and for the diviclon of profits among such
Shareholders.
Or, alternatively, it is intended by the said Bill or Bills, to autho-
rise and carry into effect a sale and purchase, or a lease, by one or
more of the said Ifonkland and Kirkintilloch, Ballochney, and Sin-
mane an Railway Companies, of the undertaking or undertakings be-
longing to suck Company or Companies, to the other or others of the
said Companies, or to enable the said Companies respectively, to
enter into, and complete such sale and purchase, or to grant and
accept such lease. And also to make arrangements with each other
for fixing the terms upon which such sale and purchase shall take
place, or such lease be entered into.
And it is also intended, by the said Bill or Bills, to enable the said
Menkland and Kirkintilloch, Ballochney, and Slamannan Railway
Companies to make arrangements with each other for fixing the
terms upon which the said Companies may conduct or be interested
in the Traffic on their respective undertakings.
And it is also intended, by the said Bill or Bills, to authorise the
Pahl Monkland and Kirkintilloch, Ballochney, and Slamannan
Railway Companies, or any of them, or the said Amalgamated Com-
pany, or the Company or Companies who may purchase, or take
on lease, the undertaking or undertakings belonging to the other or
others of the said Companies, to raise money by the creation of
additional shares and otherwise, and to guarantee the payment •f
a dividend thereon to the holders thereof, and to guarantee the
payment of a dividend •n the shares or some of them which the
said Companies, or any of them have raised or are authorised
to raise by means of shares, and t• confer on the holders of the
said shares all or some of the powers, rights, and privileges which
bel ng to the Shareholders of the said Companies, or may be vested
in the Shareholders of the said Amalgamated Company, or of the
Company or Companies who may purchase or take on lease the un-
dertaking or undertakings belonging to the other or ethers of the
said Companies.
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And it is intended for these and fir other purposes to consolidate and
to alter, mead, enlarge, and partially or wholly repeal same of the .
powers and previsions of the several Acts relating to end concerning
the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway, passed respectively iu the
fifth year of-the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth,
the fourth year of the reign if his late Majesty Xing William the
Fourth, and the third, seventh, ninth, and tenth years of the reign
of her present. Majesty, and of the several Acts relating to and con-
cerning the Ballochney Railway passed respectively in the seventh
year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, the
sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty King William the
Fourth, and the third, seventh, and tenth years of the reign of
her present Majesty; and •f the several Acts relating to and con-
cerning the Slamannan Railway, passed respectively in the sixth
year of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, and
in the first, third, and tenth years of the reign of her present Ma-
jesty ; and of the Slamanan and Borrowetouness Railway Act, 1846,
and in so far as necessary for carrying into effect the purposes before
specified, to amend such of the provisions of the several Acta after
recited as relate to the said Monkland and Kirkintilloch. Itallochney,
and Slamannan Railways, or Railway Companies, or any of them,
that is to say : An Act passed in the eighth year of the reign of her
present Majesty, intituled, " An Act to alter, amend, enlarge, and
in part repeal the Acts rah ling to the Wishnw and Coltness Rail-
way," " The Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monklands Junction Railway
Act, 1846," The Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monklands Junction hall-
way (Con lairs Branch) Act, 1847," " the Caledonian Railway Act,
1845," and " the Caledonian Railway (Glasgow, Garnkirk, and
Coatbridge Branch) Act, 1846."
And it is further proposed, by the said Bill or Bills, to repeal or
alter the existing tolls, rates, and duties authorised to he levied by
the said recited Acts, or some of them, and to enable the said
Amalgamated Company, or the Company or Companies who may
purchase or take on lease the undertaking or undertakings belong-
ing to the other or others of the said Companies, to lax and levy
bona, rates, and duties.. And it la also intended, by the said Bill or
Jill s, to confer, very, or extinguish elemptiona from the
pad meat of tolls, rites,' and duties, and to vary or extinguish exist-
ing rights and_prlyilehtA. may heated ht the said Corn-
other rights and privileges.
MITCHELL, HENDERSON, and MITCHELL.
Solicitors for the sill.
Glasgow, November 11,1847.