The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-12 00:00:00

FASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
At -the HALF-YEARLY MEETING of the SHARE-
HOLDERS of this Company, held yesterday at the London Tavern,
in pursuance of advertisements,
GEORGE HUDSON, Esq., M.P., Chairman,

the followidg resolutions were moyed,seconded, and carried unani-
mously ;-
1. Resobresl--That the report now-road be received and adopted,
and be circulated among the Shareholders of the Company.
2. That Samuel Anderson, Esq., Robert Crosbio, Esq., Frang
Valentine Lee, Esq , and George Fisher, .Esq., the retiring Directors,
be re-elected Directors of the Company.

3. That the Amalgamation Agreement between the two Companka
shill, as from the Ist July next be changed to the effect that the net
profits shall be divided rateably over all share capitals of both Com-
panies, subject, however, to the preferences ox guarantees after-
mentioned :

The new capital to receive 4 per cent. per annuls in the
usual manner while the new lines are under construction, and when
the same have opened for traffic such capital shall commence taking
its rateab:e share of net profit..
Proprietors of Northern and Eastern shares agreeing to accept the
allotment of two new shares of 201. each in the new capital of
4,500,0001, to be raised by the said Eastern Counties Hallway Com-
pany for each share of 501. of the Northern and Eastern capital, shall
have the same allotment to them. _

That the share capital of the Northern and Eastern Company held
by the proprietors last mentioned shall be entitled to receive in per-
petuity their present guaranteed 5 per cent.
That proprietors of Northern and Eastern. shares declining to take
the said allotment of two new shares of 26/. each, In the new exten-
sion capital of the Eastein Counties Company of 4,500,000/. about to
be created for each 501. of Northern and Eastern capital, shall, as
from the let July next, receive 6 per cent. per annum, as a guaran-
teed interest or rent, and shall, after all the remaining capital shall
have received 6 per cent., be entitled to share rateably in the sur-
plus net profits for an additional dividend.
That all the Northern and Eastern shareholders receiving only 5
per cent. per annum as a guaranteed interest, shall, along with the
Eastern Counties shareholders, be entitled to a rateable division of all
new extension shares to be created after the date hereof.
Tkat in the event of Acts of Parliament for the extensions not be-
ing obtained, the deposits on the new extension shares shall be re-
turned without deduction, but without interest.
4. That the following extension, and branch lines of the Eastern
Counties Railway Company be constructed, if authorised by Parlia-
ment, that is to say,
A fiifiway from Cambridge to Lincoln.
A railway from Lincoln to South Mifford.
A railway from Tottenham to Farringdon-street.
A railway from March to Lincoln ; and that 4,500,000/, shall be
raised by shares of 201. each for the above purposes, to be called
York extension shares.
That the following extension and branch lines of the Eastern Coun-
ties Railway Company be also constructed, if authorised by Parlia-
ment, that is to say,
A railway from Hertford to Huntingdon, with a branch toßedford.
A railway from Tottenham to Barnet.
A railway from Ilford to Epping.
A railway from the Thames Junction Railway to Tilbury, opposite
Gravesend ; and that moneys shall be raised for the purpose under
the authority of Parliament, upon the bonds or debentures of the
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-s.Thatthis meeting, in according its grateful sense of the inde-
fatigable and successful exertions of the Chairman and Deputy
Chairman, and the valuable services of the Board at large, expresses
its readiness and determination to carry out the extension from
Cambridge to the north, conformably with the Act of Incorporation,
and to afford to the public every advantage to be derived from the
facility and cheapness of its construction.

GEORGE HUDSON, Chairman.
By order, C. P. RONEY, Secretary.

TAndon, Feb. 10, 18 ¶6.