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WILTS, SOMERSET, and WEYMOUTH,
RAlLWAY.—(Amendment) No. I.—Bruton (Piteombe
and Rodden) and Bradford Deviations. _ _ . .

Notice is hereby given, that APPLICATION it intended to be
made to Parliament in the ensuing session, for an ACT to alter,
amend, and enlarge some of the powers and provisions of " The
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway Act, 1845," and " The
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway (Amendment) Act, 1846,"
and to enable the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway Com-
pany to make the two several alterations hereinafter particularly
mentioned in certain of the lines of railway authorised to be made
by the said Acts; that is to say, one of such alterations to
commence in the parish of Pitcombe, in the county of So-
merset, on the line of railway from Upton Scudamore to
Meicombe Regis, secondly, described in the firstly above-
mentioned Act, in or near to a field in the said parish, num-
bered 2 on the plans of the said railway referred to in the said Act,
and passing thence in, through, or into, the several parishes, town.
ships, and extra-parochial or other places of Pitco rube, Bruton, Wyke
Champflower, Sheephouse Farm, North Brewham, Witham Friary,
Marston Bigot, Frome Selwood, and Redden, or some of them in the
county of Somerset, to terminate in the said parish of Redden in er
near to a field in that parish numbered 1 on the said last-mentioned
plans.
And the other of such alterations to commence in the parish of
Bradford, in the county of Wilts, on the line of railway from Brad-
ford to Bathampton, described in the secondly above-mentioned
Act, at a road in the said parish numbered 125 in the plans of the
said railway referred to in the said last-mentioned Act, and to pass
in or through and to terminate within the same parish at the Avon
Cliff Aqueduct of the Kennet and Avon Canal.
And it is also intended by such Act to take powers to abandon such
part or parts of the lines if railway, respectively authorised by the
said firstly and secondly above-mentioned Acts, as will be rendered
useless by. reason of the aforesaid intended alterations respectively.
And it is also intended by such Act to take powers to stop up,
alter, and divert, whether temporarily or permanently, all turnpike
and ether roads and highways, streets, railways, tramways, aque-
ducts, canals, streams, and rivers, upon or adjoining the line of the
said intended works, which it may be necessary btitnterfere with in
the construction or for the purposes of the said intended works.
And it is further intended by such Act to obtain powers for the
purchase of lands, by compulsion or agreement, for the purposes of
the said Intended works, and to vary, repeal, or extinguish all exist-
ing rights or privileges which would in any manner impede or in-
terfere with the construction, maintenance, or use of the said in-
tended works, and to confer other rights and privileges. And also to
levy tolls, rates, and duties, in respect of the use of the said intended
works, and to confer such exemptions from such tolls, rates, or
duties, as to the said Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway Com-
pany may seem meet.
And it is further proposed by such intended Act to extend to the
said proposed alterations and works the powers of sale and lease to
the Great Western Railway Company, and powers of purchase and
renting, and of contributing capital by that Company, which are
contained in the said " Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway
Act, 1845," with reference to the undertaking thereby authorised.
And for the purposes aforesaid, it is further intended by the said
intended Act to alter, amend, and enlarge, so far as may be neces-
sary, the powers and provisions of the said Wilts, Somerset, and
Weymouth Railway Act, 1845, and of the said Wilts, Somerset, and
Weymouth Railway (Amendment) Act, 1846, and of the several
Acts relating to the Great Western Railway, and of the railways
and branch railways forming part of that undertaking, and belong-
ing to the Great Western Railway Company, bearing date as follows
—that is to say, an Act of the fifth and sixth years of the reign of
his late Majesty King William the Fourth, cap. 107 ; an Act of the
sixth year of the same reign, cap. 38 ; au Act of the first year of
the reign of her present Majesty Queen Victoria, cap. 91 ; an Act
of the first year of the same reign, cap. 92; an Act of the second
year of the same reign, cap. 27 ; an Act of the sixth and seventh
years of the reign of his said late Majesty King William the Fourth,
cap. 77 ; an Act of the first and second years of the reign of her said
present Majesty Queen Victoria, cap. 24 ; an Act of the fifth year of the
same reign, cap. 28 ; an Act of the sixth year of the same reign,
cap. 10 ; an Act of the seventh year of the same reign, cap. 3; an
Act of the eighth and ninth years of the same reign, cap. 40; an
Act of the eighth and ninth years of the same reign, cap. 188 ; an
Act of the eighth and ninth years orthe same reign, cap. 191 ; and
an Act of the ninth year of the same reign, cap. 14.
And also the Acts relating to the West London Railway, which
bear date as follows : Act of the third year of the reign of hie
late Majesty King William the Fourth, cap. 36 ; an Act of the
sixth year of the same reign, cap. 79 ; an Act of the third and
fourth year of the reign of her present Majesty, cap. 105 ; an Act of
the eighth and ninth year of the same reign, cap.!ls6 ; and an Act
of the ninth and tenth year of the same reign, cap. 369.
And notice is hereby further given, that maps, plans, and sec-
tions, describing the direction, line, and levels of the said intended
works, together with books of reference to such plans, containing
the names of the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees,
and occupiers of the lands proposed to be taken for the purposes
thereof, will be deposited, on or before the 30th day of November
instant, with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Somerset, at
his office. at Taunton, in that county ; and with the Clerk of the
Peace for the county of Wilts, at his office, at Wilton, in that
county ; and that a copy of so much of the said plans and sections
and books of reference as relates to each of the parishes in or
through which the said intended works are intended to be made,
will be deposited, on or before the said 30th day of November, with
the parish clerks of such parishes respectively, at their respective
residences

W. 0. and W. HUNT, 10, Whitehall, London.
OSBORNE, WARD, and Co., Bristol.
Dated this 2d day of November, 1846.

WILTS, SOMERSET, and WEYMOUTH
RAILWAY. (Amendment) No. 2,—Proposed Railways
from Bleadon to Blandford, and from Compton, near Yeovil, to Wil-
ton, with Branches to Glastonbury and Gillingham.
Notice is hereby given, that APPLICATION is intended to be
made to Parliament in the ensuing session for an ACT to alter, amend,
and enlarge some of the powers and prods one of " The Wilts, So-
merset, and Weymouth Railway Act, 1845 ;" and " The Wilts, So-
merset, and Weymouth Railway (Amendment) Act, 1846 ;" and to
enable the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway Company to
make the several new lines of railway, together with all proper
works and conveniences connected therewith, hereinafter mentioned,
that is to say—
A railway to commence by a junction with the line of the Bristol
and Exeter Railway in the parish of Bleadon, in the county of
Somerset, in or near to a field in that parish distinguished by the
number 10 on the plans of the said Bristol aed Exeter Railway re-
ferred to in the Act authorising the construction thereof ; and passing
thence in, through, or into the several parishes, township's, aid extra-
parochial or other places of Bleadon. Uphill, Locking, Hutton, Chris-
ton, Banwell, Loxton, Biddesham, Lyrnpsharn, Badgworth, Weare,
Compton Bishop, Cross, Whiscombe, Axbridge, Cheddar, Wedmore
Draycott, Nyland and Holcombe, Rodney Stoke, Westbury Easton,
Wookey, the Out Parish or Saint Cuthbert in Wells, the In Parish
of Saint Cuthbert in Wells, the Liberty of Saint Andrew in Wells,
North Wootton, Binder, Croscornbe, Pilton, Shepton Mallet, Doult-
ing, Chesterblade, Evercreech, Milton Clevedon, Lamyatt, Ditcheat,
Al trisford, Pitcombe, Wyke Champflower, Bruton, Shepton Montague
otherwise Shepton Montaente, Bretton Seymour otherwise Bratton
Saint Maur, Charlton Musgrave, Wincanton, Maperton, Holton,
North Cheriton, South Cheriton, Charlton Horethorne, Horsington,
Stowell, Temple Coombe, and Henstridge, or some of them, in the
county of Somerset ; Stalbridge, Kingtou Magna otherwise Keinton
Magna, West Stower, Fifehead Magdalen, Todbere, Marnhull. Hinton
Saint Mary, Sterminster Newton. Manston, Hammoon otherwise
Hammohun, Child Okeford, Shilling Okeford otherwise Shillingstone,
Belchallwell, Okeford Fitzcoaine, lianford, Stowerpaine, Durweston,
Pimperne, Bryanston, and Blandford Forum, or some of them, in the
county of Dorset; to terminate in the said parish of Blandford Forum,
in or near to a field, called Picked Close, in the occupation of Isaac
William Tupper, situate near the Cricket ground, on the east side of
the road leading from Blandford to Sherborne.
A branch railway to diverge out of the intended line of railway
hereinbefore described, at Portway, in the In Parish of Saint Cuth-
bert in Wells, in the county of Somerset; and passing thence in,
through, or into the In Parish of Saint Cuthbert in Wells, the Out
Parish of Saint Cuthbert in Wells, the parishes of Wookey, Pilton,
Mearne, and Godney, and the united parishes of Saint John the
Baptist and Saint Benedict in Glastonbury, or some of them, in the
county of Somerset ; to terminate in the town of Glastonbury, in
the last-mentioned parishes, ou the cast side and near the south end
of Northload-street.
A railway to commence upon the line of railway from Melcombe
Regis to Upton Scudamore, secondly described in the " Wilts, So-
merset, and Weymouth Railway Act, 1845," in the parishes of
Trent, in the county of Somerset, and Over Compton, in the county
of Dorset, in or near to a field in the first-mentioned parish, distin-
guished by the number 4, and in or near to a field in the said last-
mentioned parish, distinguished by the number 8, on the plans of
the said railway referred to in the said Act; and passing thence in,
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Temple Coombe, and Henstridge, or some of them, in the county of
Somerset ; Stalbridge, Buckhorn Weston, Kington Magna, otherwise
Keinton Magna, Fifehead Magdalen, West Stower, Marnhull, Tod-
bere, Stower Provost, East Stower, Saint Margaret's Marsh,
Gillingham, the Liberty of Alcester, Shaston Saint James,
and Motcombe, or some of them, in the county of Dorset ;
Mere, Sedgehill, East Knoyle, Semley, Donhead Saint Mary,
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Donhead Saint Andrew W ardour, West Tisbury, East 'Lis-
bury, Ansty, Sutton Mandeville, Chilmark, Fovant otherwise
Foffant, Teffont Evias, Dinton, Compton Chamberlain, Baverstock,
Barford Saint Martin, South Burcombe, North Burcombe, Wilton,
South Newton, Ditchampton, and Fugglestone Saint Peter, or some
of them, in the county of Wilts ; to terminate in the said parish of
Fugglestone Saint Peter, in or near to a field numbered fifteen on
the aforesaid plans of the said Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth
Railway.
And a branch railway, to diverge out of the last-mentioned in-
tended railway in or near a field in the parish of Motcombe, in the
county of Dorset, called Long Mead or Great Mead, situate near to,
and on the north side of Sherborne-causeway, and in the occupation
of John Stacey ; passing thence in, through, or Into the parishes of
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And it is intended by such Act to take powers to abandon such
part or parts of the line of tho Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth
Railway, in the parishes of Bradford, Abbas and Sherborne, in the
county of 'forget, as will be rendered useless by reason of the In-
tended line of railway from Compton to Fugglestene Saint Peter,
hereinbefore described.

And it is also intended by such Act to take powers to stop up, alter,
or divert, whether temporarily or permanently, all turnpike and
other roads and highways, streets, railways, tramways, aqueducts,
eanals, streams, and rivers upon or adjoining the line of the said
intended railways and works which it may be necessary to interfere
with in the construction er for the purposes of the said intended rail-
ways and works, or any of them.
And it is further intended by such Act to vary, repeal, or extinguish
all existing rights or privileges which would in any manner impede
or interfere with the construction, maintenance, or use of the said
intended railways and works, and to confer ether rights and privi-
leges, and also to confer on the said Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth
Railway Company powers for raising additional capital, and also for
the purchase of lands, by compulsion or agreement, for the purposes
of the said intended works, and for levying tolls, rates and duties, in
respect of the use thereof, and to confer such exceptions from such
tolls, rates, or duties as to such company may seem meet.
And it is further proposed by such intended Act to extend to the
said intended new lines of railways and works the several powers
and provisions of the said " Wilts. Somerset, and Weymouth Rail-
way Act, 1845," and of the said " Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth
Railway (Amendment) Act, 1848."
And it is further intended by such Act to enable the said Wilts,
Somerset, and Weymouth Railway Company to sell or let the said
intended railways or works, or any of them, to the Great Western
Railway Company :and also to enable the Great Western Rail-
way Company to purchase or take on lease the said intended
railways and works, or any of them, and to raise and contribute
funds for or towards the construction or maintenance thereof, and to
exercise all or any powers which may be conferred by the said Act
in connexion therewith or in relation thereto.
And for the purposes aforesaid it is further intended by the said
Act to alter, amend, and enlarge, so far as may be necessary, some
of the powers and provisions of the said " Wilts, Somerset, and
Weymouth Railway Act, 1845," and of the said " Wilts, Somerset,
and Weymouth Railway (Amendment) Act, '1846," and of the
several Acts relating to the Great Western Railway, and the rail-
ways and branch railways forming part of that undertaking, and be-
longing to the Great Western Railway Company, bearing date
as follows, that is to say —an Act of the fifth and sixth years
of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, cap 107 :
an Act of the sixth year of the same reign, cap. 38 ; an Act of the
first year of the reign of her present Majesty Queen Victoria, cap. 91;
an Act of the first year of the same reign, cap. 92 ; an Act of the
second year of the same reign, cap. 27 ; as Act of the sixth and
seventh years of the reign of his said late Majesty King William the
Fourth, cap. 77 ; an Act of the first and second years of the reign of
her said present Majesty Queen Victoria, cap. 24 ; an Act of the fifth
year of the same reign, cap. 28; an Act of the sixth year of the
same reign, cap. 10 ; an Act of the seventh year of the same reign,
cap. 3 ; an Act of the eighth and ninth years of the same reign, cap.
40 ; an Act of the eighth and ninth years of the same reign, cap.
188 ; an Act of the eighth and ninth years of the same reign, cap.
191 ; and an Act of the ninth year of the same reign, cap. 14.
And also the Acts relating to the West London Railway, which
bear date as follows—an Act of the third year of the reign of his late
Majesty King Willie n the Fourth, cap. 26 ; an Act of the sixti
year of the game reign, cap. 79; an Act of the third and fourth year
of the reign of her present Majesty, cap. 105 ; an Act of the eighth
and aluth year of the same reign, cap. 136; and an Act of the ninth
mud tenth year of the same reign, cap. 309.
LAnd notice is hereby further given, that maps, plans, and sections,
deseribing the direction, line, and levels, of the said intended railways
and works, together with books of reference to ouch plans, containing