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London, England, 1851-11-28 00:00:00

N°. 18,466

MONMOUTHSHIRE RAILWAY AND
CANAL COMPANY.
AMENDMENT of ACTS—NEW WORKS—REPEAL of CER-
TAIN RESTRICTIONS on, and OBLIGATIONS of the CO m-
PANY—ADDITIONAL and INCREASED TOLLS—and REVI-
VAL and EXTENSION of POWERS—ALTERA TIAN of RUM-
NET RAILWAY and other TRAMROADS, and AMENDMENT
of RUMNEY RAILWAY ACT.

NOTICE IS lIEREBV GIVEN, that APPLICATiON in intended
to be made to Parliament in the ensuing Session, for leave to bring
in a BILL to alter, amend, extend, and enlarge certain of the pro-
eisimis of " The Newport and Pontypool Railway Alt, 1845,"
" The Newport and Pontypool Railway Act Amendment Act,
ISIS," and also of the local and personal Acts relating to the
Sionreon,hshire Canal Naiegation, which are distinguished as the 32
Geo. 111., cap. lea ; the 37 Geo. 111, cap. 100 ; and the 42 Geo.
111., cap. 115, or some of them, or to repeal the said Acts, or some
of hem, or some parts thereof, and make other provisions in lieu
thereof.
And powers will be applied for by the said Bill to enable the Mon-
mouthshire Railway and Canal Company to construct and maintain
the following Itailivais or Tramroads, alterations and new works in
connexion with, and extension of their existing and authorised
Railways and Tramroads, (that is to say) :
No. 1. A Railway to commence on the north bank of Crinda Pill,
near Gwastoed-bridge, in the parish of Saint Woollos, in the county
of Monmouth, by a junction with, and in extension of the main line
of the Newport and Pontypool Railway, and terminat ng at or near
the Newport Dock Company's bridge over the Monmouthshire
Canal at Dock road, in the borough of Newport and parish of Saint
Woollos, in the said county of Monmouth.
No. 2. A Railway to commence in a field on the south side of a
certain road called Tamplin's-road (which field is situate in the
parish of Lanvrechva tipper, in the slid county of Monmouth, and
is numbered 73 as regards lands is that parish, upon the plans of the
Newport and Pontypool Railway deposited with the Clerk of the
Peace of the said county, in the year one thousand eight hundred
and forty-four, and referred to in the said first-mentioned Act) by a
junction with and extension of the main line there of the said New-
port and Pontypool ltailway, and terminating at or near the south
side of the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company's Bridge
over the River Avon Llwyd, at Blaenafen, in the parishes of Llamover
Upper and Trevethin, or one of them, in the said county of Mon-
mouth.
No. 3. A Branch Railway to commence from and out of the said
last-mentioned intended Railway, at a point near to and en tiles,
south side of the place where the present Illaenafon Railway cresies
the Cwmfrwyd Brook, In the parish of Trevethin, in the said county
of Monmouth, and terminating by a junction with the Cwmfrwyd
Railway, in the same pari.h, at a point near the intersection of the
highway leading from the British Iron Works at Garndiffaith, by
the highway leading from Talswain Church to the Varteg Lower
Furnaces, all in the said parish of Trevethin.
No. 4. A Railway or Tramroad commencing by a junction with
the Company's Railway or Tramroad, called the Western Valley's
Line between Dock-street Station and Court-y-bella, in the borough
of Newport and parish of Saint Woollos, at or near a house in the
occupation of William Williams, near to Court-y-bella, and termi-
nating by a junction with the said Western Valley's Line at or near
the one mile post on that line between Court-y-bells and Risca.
No. 5. A. Railway or Tramroad commencing by a junction with
the said Western Valley's Line at or near the two mile post on the
said Western Valley's Line between Court-y-bella. and Risca, and
terminating by a junction with the said Western Valley's Line at cr
near the two and a half mile post on that line between Court-y-bella
and Risca.
No. 6. A Railway or Tramroad commencing by a junction with
the Western Valley's Line at or near the three and a quarter mile
post on the said Western Valley's Line between Court-y-bella and
Risca, and terminating by a junction with the Sirhowy Tramroad,
at or near the six mile post on the Sirhowy Tramroad, between
Risen and a place called the Nine Mile Point.
No. 7. A Railway or Tramroad, commencing by a junction with
the Sirhowy Tramroad, at or near the seven and three-quarter mile
post on the said Sirhowy Tramroad, between Risca and the said
place, called the Nine Mile Point, and terminating by a junction
with the said Sirhowy Tramroad at or near the eight mile post
thereon adjacent to the said Nine Mile Point.
No.B. A Railway or Tramroad, commencing by a junction with
the Western Valley's Line, at or near the six and a quarter mile post
on that line between Risca and Aberbeeg, and terminating by a
junction with the said Werteru Valley's Line, at or near the eight
mile post on that line, between Risca and Aberbeeg.
No, 9. A Railway or Tramroad commencing by a junction with
the said Western Valley's Line at or near the nine and a quarter
mile post on that line, between Risen and Aberbeeg, and termi-
nating by a junction with the said Western Valley's Line at or near
the ten mile post on that line between Rises and Aberbeeg.
Na. 10. A Railway or Tramroad commencing by a junction with
the said Western Valley's Line at or near the ten and a quarter mile
post on that line between Risca and Aberbeeg, and terminating by a
junction with the said Western Valley's Line, at or near the twelve
and a quarter mile post on that line between Risca and Aberbeeg.
No. 11. A Railway or Tramroad commencing by a junction with
the said Western Valley's Line at or near the twelve and three-
quarter mile post on that line between Risca and Aberbeeg, and ter-
minating by a junction with the said Western Valley's Line at or near
the fourteen and three quarter mile post on that line between Aber-
beeg and Nantyglo.
No. 12. A Railway or Tramroad, commencing by a junction with
the Western Valley's Line at or near the fifteen and a quarter mile
post on that line between Aberbeeg and Nantyglo, and terminating
by a junction with the Western Valley's Line at or near the sixte
and a quarter mile post on that line between Aberbeeg and Nan-
en
tYglo.
No. 13. A Railway or Tramroad commencing by a junction with
the Western Valley's Line at or near the eighteen mile post on that
line between Aberbeeg and Nantyglo and terminating by a junction
with the Western Valley's Line at or near the nineteen and a quar-
ter mile post on that line between Aberbeeg and Nantyglo.
No. 14. A Railway or Tramroad commencing by a junction with
the said Company's existing Railway or Tramroad between Aber-
beeg and Beaufort Iron Works, called the Beaufort Tramroad at or
Ilea, the fifteen and three-quarter mile post on the said Beaufort
Tramroad between Aberbeeg and Beaufort Iron Works, and termi-
na ing by a junction with the said Beaufort Tramroad at or near the
sixteen and three-quarter mile post on the said Beaufort Tramroad
between Aberbeeg and Bi-aufort Iron Works.
No. 15. A Railway or Tramroad commencing by a junction with
the said Beaufort Tramroad at or near the eighteen and a half mile
post on t- e said Beaufort Tramroad between Aberbeeg and Beaufort
Iron Works, and terminating at or in a field in the parish of Lien-
gunnider in the County of Brecon in the occupation of Mr. William
Needham, lying between the Royal George public-he...lse, and the
turnpike-road leading from Brynmawr to Sirhowy and near to
Rhy dy Blew.
And to carry the said intended Railways or Tramroads, or some
of them, partly along or over the lines of the existing or authorised
Railways or Tramroads of the Company ; and which said intended
Railways or Tramroads, cite. aliens and works, will be made or
pass from, in, through, or into the several parishes, township , and
extra-parochial places following, or some of them (that is to say)
Newport, Saint Woollos, Llanyrechva Upper, Panteague, Trevethin,
Llanover Upper, Bassttleg, Rogerstone, Rive, Machen, Machen
Upper. Machen Lower, Mynyddysllwyn, Llenhl'eth, Aberystruth,
amid Bedw. Ily, in the county of Monmouth, and Llanguunider and
Llangattock Crielthowell, its the county of Brecon.
And it is intended to apply Inc powers by the said Bill to enable
the said Company to purchase by compulsion and by agreement all
lands houses, an i other hereditaments requisite or desirable for the
purposes of the said Railways or Tramroads, alterations, and other
work-, or any of them, and to vary and extinguish all rignts and
privileges connected with the lands, houses, and other hereditaments
so purchased.
And it is also intended to sp.l for powers by the said Bill to
y
make ateral deviations frothe lines of the sai Rilway, Tam-
roads,l alterations, and othr works, to the extents or within the
limits defined uron the plans to be deposited as hereinafter
mentioned ; and also to cross, divert, alter, or stop up, eSher tem-
porarily or permanently, all streets, roads, and highways, streams,
canals, sewers, revise ions, railways, and tramroois, within the
parishes and places aforesaid, or any ofthem,
t may be
necessary to cross, divert, alter, or stop uthem, s
of re-
p for whichth itspo
said or any of them and especially from time to time during the
progress of the said, works, or some part thereof, to let off the was er
from the Newport, and Pontypool Canal, and also to fill up and stop
or discoetinue the use for purposes of navigation of so much of the
said Newport and Pontypool Caeal as lies above the junction there-
of with the Brecon and Abergavenny Canal, and to repeal all pro-
visions of the said Acts or any of them which might prevent or re-
strict such filing up and stoppage or discontinuance.
And it is also intended by the sett Bill to revive and extend the
time limited by the said Act., or any of them, for the sa'd Company
to improve their existing Railways and Tramroads, so as the more
effectually to pdapt them to locomotive power.
And it is also intended to enable the said Company to stop and
discontinue the use of so much of the existing lines of their Tram-
roads or Railw iys as lies between the commencement of each or
either of the said intended Railways, Tramroads, or alterations, and
the termination thereof, and which by means thereof may become
unnecessary. and to enable the Company to sell and dispose of so
much of such existing lines as they may not require for siding ac-
commodation or other purposes.
And it is also intended to apply for powers to enable the said
Company the more effectually to adapt for the use of Locomotive
power, by the conversion thereof respectively into Edge Railways,
and assimilating or altering the gauge, or otherwise, that ix•rtion
of the Sirhowy Tramroad, which belongs to the sail Company, and
likewise the other existing and intended Tramroads, of the Company,
or some of them, or some part or parts thereof, and to enable the
Proprietors of time other portions of the Sirhowy Tramroad. and
likewise the Itumney Railway Company, and the owners of certain
Tramroads, known as Mrs. Jones's Tramroad, Sir Benjamin Hall's
Tramroad, and the Cwmtillery Branch Tramroad, to convert and
adapt in like manlier such Tramroads for the use of Locomotive
power.
And for the purposes aforesaid, to alter, amend, and extend, some
of the provisions of the Local and Personal Act, 6 Geo. IV., cap. 62,
relating to the said Rumney Railway.
And it is also intended by the said Bill to relieve the Monmouth- '
shire Railway and Canal Company from the obligation of adapting
the Blaenafon Railway, and so much of the Western Valley's Line,
and Beaufort Tramroad, respectively, as lie to the north of Blaine
Church amid Ebbw Vale Station respectively for the use of locomo-
tive power, and also from the obligation of finding motive power
and carriages on such Railway, and portions of line and tramroad
respectively.
And it is also intended to repeal the provision of the Newport and
Pontypool Railway Act Amendment Act, 1848, which requires the
said Company to erect and maintain a station In the town of New-
port on the south of the line of the South Wales Railway.
Anti it is also intended by the said Bill to alter and extend the
application and disposal of the income or revenue derivable by the
said Company under the powers of the said several acts or any of
them, and to remove the existing restrictions upon the amount of
the dividends payable by the Company.
And it is also intended to apply for powers to enable the said
Company to raise additional capital, and also to confer on the said
Company further and additional powers in reference to the raising
and regulation of their capital, the creation and distribution of shares,
the acceptance, merging and re-issue of shares forfeited or in arrear,
amid the borrowing of money on mortgage or otherwise.
And it is also intended to apply for powers to alter, classify, and
increase the tolls and rates authorised by the several Acts herein-
before referred to, or any of them, for the use of the several tram-
roads, railways, and canals, and other works belonging to the said
Company, and also for the use of locomotive power and carriages
when provided by the Company; and to levy new tolls and rates
for siding accommodation, and use and expenses of working of in-
clined planes and otherwise ; and to confer, vary, and extinguish
exemptions from payment of tolls and rates ; and to confer, vary, and
extinguish other rights and privileges.
And notice is hereby further given, that plans of the proposed
Railways, Tramroads, alterations, and other works, and of the lands
and houses proposed to he taken for the purposes thereof, and also
duplicates of such plans and sections, and duplicates thereof, together
with a Book of Reference to such plans, and a published map shew •
ing the general direction of the said Railways or Tramroads and
alterations, and also a copy of this notice as published in the
" Lorelon Gazette," will be deposited with the Clerks of the Peace
of the said counties of Monmouth and Brecon, at their respective
offices at Newport and Brecon, In the same counties respectively,
on or before the 29th day of November instant, and that a copy of so
much of the said plans and sections as relates to each parish, and
extra parochial place, in or through which the said Railways or
Tramroads, alterations and works are intended to be made, together
with a Book of Reference thereto, and a copy of this notice as
pub-
lished in the " London Gazette," will be deposited in the me of
each parish, with the pariah clerk of each such parish,at his resi-
dence, and in the case of each the parish
clerk of some parish extra parochial place, with
Immediately adjoining thereto, at his residence,
on or before the said 29th day of November instant.
Dated the 10th day of November, 1851.
A. WADDINGTON,
Solicitor for the Bill.