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London, England, 1846-08-19 00:00:00

PANT SCRIP.

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE RAILWAYS.-OXFORD AND BLETCH-
LEY, AND BUCKINGHAM AND BRACKLEY JUNCTION

RAILWAY.

I hereby request to be registered as the proprietor of such number
of shares in the above undertaking as I am entitled to in accordance
with the terms of the advertisement of the 10th August, in respect
of scrip for 201. shares, viz.:—

Denoting Numbers
From 1 To

scrip for One Share
Five Shares .....
Ten Shares ..
„ Fifty Shares •.........

I also I equest you to issue to me sealed certificates, lu which do-
scribe me as follows :

Christian name in full ....
Surname
Description . • • • • • .. . • • • ••
Addre55............. .
Witness my hand this day of 1846.
To the Secretary of the Buckinghamshire Railway.

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE RAILWAY
Notice is hereby given, that the first ordinary GENERAL
MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of the OXFORD and BLETCH-
LEY and BUCKINGHAM and BRACKLEY JUNCTION RAIL-
WAY COMPANIES, will be held at the Euston Station, on
WEDNESDAY, the 26th of August instant, at Twelve o'clock pre-
cisely. HARRY VERNEY,
Chairmen of the Board of Directors.
By order of the Board of Directors,
WYNDHAM HARDING, Secretary.
Office, 29, Great George-street, Westminster, Aug. 11, 1846.

)(FORD, WITNEY, CHELTENHAM
and GLOUCESTER INDEPENDENT RAILWAY.

At a highly influential Meeting of • the Shareholders of this
Company, convened by advertisement, and held at the London
Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, this day, for the purpose of considering
a Proposal for Uniting this Company with the London, Oxford, and
Cheltenham Railway Company.
Sir JAMES DUKE, M.P., in the Chair, ,

The following letter was read from the Solicitors of the London
and North-Western Railway Company (late London and Birmingham
Company) _ . . . . . ___ _ _

29, Great George-street, Westminster, Aug. 15, 1846,

Sir,—We are authorised by the Directors of the London and
North Western Railway Company to propose the following terms
to the Oxford, Witney, Cheltenham, and Gloucester Independent
Railway Company. for the relinquishment of their undertaking in
favour of the proposed London, Oxford, and Cheltenham scheme.
That in consideration of the Directors of the Witney Company
handing over to the Cheltenham Company the balance of the
Deposits in their hands, amounting to Os. Sd. per Share, one Share
of 201. In the Cheltenham Company, with credit given for 2/. paid
thereon, shall be allotted to each Scripholder in the Witney Com-
pany for every Three Shares held by him in that undertaking.
The Shares in the London, Oxford, and Cheltenham company will
have 4% per cent. guaranteed upon them from the passing of the
Act, with one-half of the surplus profits.
.

All the Plans, Surveys, and Documents of every description be-
longing to the Witney Company, to be handed over to the London
and North-Western Company, and the Directors of the Witney
Company, to render all the assistance in their power to the prose.
cutlon of the London, Oxford, and Cheltenham line.—We are, &c.
(Signed) CHARLES PARKER.
SAMUEL CARTER.

Sir James Duke.
Whereupon it was resolved unanimously—
That the proposal now made by the London, Oxford, and Chelten-
ham Railway Company, of giving one share in that undertaking in
exchange for three shares, with a payment of 6s. Bd. per share of
the Oxford, Witney, Cheltenham, and Gloucester Independent Rail-
way Company, be accepted by this meeting, under a guarantee from
the Directors of the London and North-Western Railway Company
to subscribe three-fourths of the capital required for the first-men-
tioned line, and to take a lease thereof in perpetuity, at a rent of
four and a half per cent , with one-half of the surplus profits ; and
this meeting hereby authorises the Managing Committee of the Ox-
ford, Witney, Cheltenham, and Gloucester Independent Railway
Company to carry the proposed arrangement into effect, and to pay
the sum of 6s. Bd. per share accordingly; the Shareholders, in con-
sideration of such arrangement, releasing all claims upon, and giving
full powers to the Managing Committee to w.nd up the affairs, and
settle all outstanding demands, in smelt manner, and upon suck
terms, as they may deem most advisable.

Resolved also unanimously—
That the thanks of this meeting be cordially given te Sir James
Duke, M.P., and the other members of the Managing Committeeil
who have attended this day, for the judicious manner in which they
have conducted the affairs of this Company; and particularly to Sir
James Duke, for his able conduct as Chairman, and the lucid and
comprehensive statement which he has given of the present position
of this Company, and of the satisfactory result of the negotiation with
the London and North-Western Railway Company.
London, August 18, 1846

J. DUKE, Chairman,

HOT WEATHER.—TRAVELLING.—SEA-
SIDE.—The REGISTERD PALETOT in London, only at
22, Cornhill, opposite the Royal Exchange; and the chief Llama
Cloth Warehouse, 114, Regent-street. Do not be deceived by a
similarity of name, placed in the windows of a few petty, shops in the
neighbourhood of the Patentees. Each Paletot Is stamped " H. J. and
D. NICOLL, 114, Regent-street."

SILVER-PLATED DISH COVERS.
B. SAVORY and SONS, Manufacturing
Ex. Silversmiths, 14, Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank of
England, submit for choice in their Plate-rooms, many Patterns of
SILVER-PLATED DISH COVERS, of Sheffield Manufacture, from
Eleven to Twenty Guineas the set. viz.:—
The Uxbridge Pattern. The Montrose Pattern.
Size. £ s.d. Size. £ s.d.
1 Plated Dish direr, 20 in. 5
13 6 1 Plated Dish Cover, 20 in. 5 17 0
Dish Cover, 16 in. 4 7 6:1 Dish Cover, 16 in. 4 14 6
2 Dish Covers, 14 In. 5
1 12 0 Z Dish Covers, 14 in. 6 6 0

Per set • • • • • • • • • • £l5 13 0 Per set ........ £l6 17 6
The above have silver handles and mountings, and silver shields
for engraving the crest or coat of arms.
A Price Current, illustrated by Drawings, and containing every
informatio*elative to the purchase of Silver or Sheffield Plate, may
be had on application, or will he Mt 111t9 the nuatly, trta of
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