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CALEDONIAN RAILWAY (PURCHASE
OR LEASE OF WISHAW AND COLTNESS RAILWAY)

BILL.

Notice is hereby given, that application is Intended to be made to
Parliament, in next session, for leave to bring in a Bill to empower
the Caledonian Railway Company to purchase or take on lease the
Wishaw and Coltness Railway and the Branch Railways, works, and
property connected therewith, or which may belong to, or be ac-
quired by, the Wishaw and Coltness Railway Company, and to em-
power the Wishaw and Coltness Railway Company to sell or lease
the said Railway, Branch Railways, works, and property, to the
Caledonian Railway Company ; and to aut,iorise the said last men-
tioned company to create a separate guaranteed stock on which a
fixed dividend shall be payable to the shareholders of the Wishaw
and Coltness Railway Company, and to vest in the Caledonian
Railway Company the Wishaw and Coltness Railway, and the
Branch Railways, works, and property connected therewith, or
which may belong to, or be acquired by, the Wishaw and Coltness
Railway Company, together with all the powers, rights, and pri-
vileges which may belong to, or are, or may be vested in the said
company ; and to enable the Caledonian Railway Company to tlx
and levy tolls, rates, and duties, on and for the use of the said
Wishaw and Coltness Railway, and Branch Railwa3 s, and works
connected therewith, or which may be acquired as aforesaid ; and

it is intended by the said Bill to confer, vary, or extinguish ex-
emptions from the payment of such tolls, rates, and duties,
and to vary or extinguish all existing rights and privileges,
which may in any manner interfere with the objects aforesaid,
and to confer other rights and privileges ; and it is intended
by the said Bill to enable the Caledonian Railway Company, and
the Wishaw and Coltness Railway Company, to make agreements
with each other, fixing the terms upon which such sale and purchase
shall take place, or such lease be entered into, or upon which the
said companies shall conduct and be interested in the traffic on their
respective undertakings, or to confirm any agreements that may
have been, or may be, made between the said companies for the
foresaid purposes, or any of them ; and for the above and other pur-
poses, it is intended by the said Bill to alter and amend the Acts re-
lating to and concerning the Caledonian Railway Company, passed re-
spectively in the ninth, tenth, and eleventh years of the reign of her pre-
sent Majesty, and to alter and amend, and, so far as necessary, to repeal
the several Acts relating to and concerning the Wishaw and Coltness
Railway, passed respectively in the tenth year of the reign of his late
Majesty King George the Fourth, the fourth year of the reig❑ of his
late Majesty King William the Fourth, and the first, third, fourth,
eighth, and tenth years of the reign of her present Majesty.

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HOPE, OLIPHANT, and MACKAY, W.S., Edinburgh.
MONCItIEFF, PATERSON, and FORBES, Glasgow.
GRAHAME, WEEMS, and GRAHAME, 30, Great
George-street, Westminster.
Edinburgh, November 11, 1847.

MONKLAND AND KIRKINTILLOCH,
BALLOCIINEY, AN]) 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
Parliament in next Session, for leave to bring in a Bill or Bills for
the purposes following, or some of them, that it to say : to authorise
and effect, or to enable the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway
Company, the Ballochney Railway Company, and the Slamannan
Railway Company, to effect an amalgamation of the said Companies,
and the undertakings belonging to them respectively, with each
other, and to form one Corp, ation or Company of the said Com-
panies, and to vest in such Amalgamated Company all the Capital,
Stock, Property, Lands, llereditaments, 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 fixing the share or interest in
the said Amalgamated Company of the Shareholders in the said
Monkland and Kirkintilloch, Ballochney, and Slamannan Railway
Companies respectively, and for the division of profits among such
Shareholders.

Or, alternatively, it is intended by the said Bill or Bins, to autho-
rise and carry into effect a sale and purchase, or a lease, by one or
more of the said Monkland and Kirkiutilloch, Ballochney, and Sla-
merman Railway Companies, of the undertaking or undertakings be-
longing to such 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
Monkland and Kirkintilloch, Ballochney, and Slamannan Railway
Companies to raake 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
said Monkland and Kirkintilloch, Ballochney, and Slam tnnan
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 thelother or
others of the said Companies, to raise money by the creation of
additional shares and otherwise, and to guarantee the payment of
a dividend thereon to the holders thereof, and to guarantee the
payment of a dividend on 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 to 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 others of the
said Companies.
And it is intended for these and for other purposes to consolidate and
to alter, amend, enlarge, and partially or wholly repeal same of the
powers and previsions of the several Acts relating to and 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 of kis late Majesty King 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 tke seventh
sixthyea
of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, the
year of the reign of his late Majesty King William the
Fourth,
and theajas Majesty; and
and tenth years of the reign of
the Slamannan Rail ae
her present di
year of the reign of his late ri y, !ins:heed
rreeigspnecottlyheelyr
several Acts relating to and con-
cerning King William the Fourth, and
jesty ; and of the Slamanan years
llesty present sixth
a.
in the first, third, and tenth
inthe
and in so far as necessary for c'rr"nd'uness Railway Act, 1846,
carrying into
specified, to amend such of the provisions effect the purposes before
recited as relate to the said Monkland and of the the several Acts after
and Slamannan Railways, or Railway comp.,
rkintilloch, Ballochney,
that is to say : An Act passed in the eighth yeTr4o;?r any of them,
present Majesty, intituled, " An Act to alter,
amend,t ereign of her
in part repeal the Acts rel sting to the Wishaw and Canarge, and
way," " The Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monklands Junction eas
Raail-
Act, 1846," " The Glasgow, Airdri, and Monklands Junction air-
way (Cowlairs 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 be 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 fix and levy
tolls, rates, and duties. And it is also intended, by the said Bill or
Bills, to confer, vary, or extinguish exemptions from the
payment of tolls, rates, and duties, and to vary or extinguish exist-
ing rights and privileges which may be vested in the said Com-
panies, or any of them, or in the Shareholders, or other persons in-
terested therein, or in other persons or corporations, and to confer
other rights and privileges.

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MITCHELL, HENDERSON, and MITCHELL,
Solicitors for the Bill.
Glasgow, November 11,1847.

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