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London, England, 1851-11-29 00:00:00

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MONMOUTHSHIRE RAILWAY AND
CANAL COMPANY.
AMENDMENT of ACTS—NEW WORKS—REPEAL of CER-
TAIN RESTRICTIONS on, and OBLIGATIONS of the COM-
PANY—ADDITIONAL and INCREASED. TOLLS--and REVI-
VAL and EXTENSION of POWERS—ALTERATION of RUM-
NET RAILWAY and other TRAMROADS, and AMENDMENT
of RUMNEY RAILWAY ACT.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that APPLICATION is intended
to be
in a RILL made P
to al to arliament In the ensuing Session, for leave to bring
Pt amend, extend, and enlarge certa'n of the pro-
einions .of " The Newp,ort and Pontypool Railway Aqt, 1845," ." The. Newport awl "'Pontypool Pailway Act Ainendnient • Act.
1844,'! and al,o of the local and personal Acts relating to the
Monrsondishire Canal Navigation, which are distinguished as the 32
Geo. 111., rap. 104; the 37 Geo. 11r., 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 provislo.ta in lieu
thereof.

And powers will be applied for by the said Bill to enable the Mon.
mouthshtre Railway and Canal Company to construct and maintain
the following Railways or Tramr"ads, alterations and new works in
connexion with, and extension of their existing and authorised
Railways and Tramroad4 (that is to say) :

No. I. A Railway to commence en 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 toe,ommence in a field on the south side of a
certain road called Tainplin's-road (which field is situate in the
parish of Lanvrechva Upper, in the said county of Monmouth, and
is numbered 73 as regards lands is that parish, upon the plans of the
Newpor,t and Pontypool Railway deposited with the Clerk of the
Peace of the said connty, 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 Railway, 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 Llano ,v.r.
.Upper and Trktrettetirbr one of them,in the said county of ~MMm-
outh.

No. 3. A Branch Railway to commence from and out of the said
last-mentioned intended Railway, at a Point near to and on the
south side of the place where the present Blaenafon Railway crosses
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 parish, at a point near the intersection of the
highway leading from the British Iron Works at Garndiffaith, by
the highway leading from Talywain Church to the Yarteg Lower
Furnaces, all in the said parish of Trevethin.

No. 4. A Railway or Tramracl commencing by a junction with
the Company's Railway or Tramread, called' the Western Valley's
Line between Dock-street Station and Courb-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 Tratnroad 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 Risen, and
terminating by a junction with the said Western Valley's Line at or
near the two and a half mile post on that line between Court-y-bella
and Rikca.

No. G. 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-belle and
Risca, and terminating by a junction with the Sirhowy Tramroad,
at or near the six mile post on the Sirhowy Tramroad, between
Rises, 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 Rises 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. 8. 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 Wertern 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 Risca 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.
lie. 10. A Railway or Tramroad commencing by a junction with
the said Western Valley's Line at tr near the ten and a quarter mile
post on that line between Rises 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-
quartex: milepost on that line between Rises and Aberbeeg, and ter-
mihating by a junction with the said Westem: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 sixteen
and a quarter mile pest on that line between Aberbeeg and Nan-
tyglo. _

No. 13. A Railway or Tramroad commencing, by a junction with
the Western Valley's Line at or near the eighteen mil., post on that
line between Abe:beeg and Nantyglo and terminating by a junction
with the Western Valley's Line at or nea: 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-
bceg and Beaufort Iron Works, called the Beaufort Tramroad at or
near 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 Beaufort Iron Works.

No. 15. A Railway or Tramroad commencing by a junction with
the said Beaufort Tramread at er near the eighteen sad a half mile
post on tie said Beaufort Tramroakbetween Aberbeeg and Beaufort
Iron Works, and terminatingat or in a field in the parish of Llan-
gunnider in the County of Bregon in the occupation of Mr. 'William
Needirstsa, lying between the 'Royal George public-he...se, and the
turnpikelroad leading from Brynmawr to Sirhowy and near to

Rh) dy Blew. . - -
And to carry the said intended Railways or Tramroads, or some
of them, partly ,long or over the lines of the esisting or authorised

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Railways or Trantroads of the Company ; awl whichr said intended
Railways or Trsmroads, alterations awl works, will be made or
pass from, in, through, or into the several parishes, township , and
extra-parochial places fo:lowing, or some of them (that is to say)
Newport, Saint Woollos, Llanvrcchva Upper, Panteague, Trevethin,
Llanover Upper, Bassaleg, Rogerstonc, Risen, Machen, Machen
Upper. Machen Lower, Mynyddysliwyn, Llanhil'eth, Aberystruth,
and Bedwaly, in the county of Monmouth, and Llanguunicler and
Llangattock Crickhowell, in the county of Brecon.
And it is intended to apply for powers by the said Bill to enable
the said Company to purchase by compulsion and by agreement all
lands, houses, ant other hereditaments requisite or desirable for the
purroses of the said Railways or Tramroads, alterations, and other
work,, or any of them, end to vary and extinguish all ricots and
privileges connected with the lands, houses, and other hereditaments
so purchased.

And it Is also intended to apply for powers by the said Bill to
make lateral deviations from the lines of the said Railways, Tram-
roads, alterations, and other works, to the extent or within the
limits defined upon the plans to tie deposited as hereinafter
mentioned ; and also to cross, divert, alter, or stop up, ether tem-
porarily or permanently, all streets, roads, and highways, streams,
canals, sewers, navigations, railways, and tramroads, within the
parishes and places aforesaid, or any of them, which it may be
necessary to cross, divert, alter, o: stop up for the purposes etre-
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 water
from the Newport and Pontypool Canal, and also to 1111 up and stop
or discontinue the use for purposes of navigation of so much of the
said Newport and Pontypool Canal 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 filling up and stoppage or discontinuance.
And it is also intended by the said Bill to revive and extend the
time limited by the said Acts, or any of them, for the sa'd Company
to improve their existing Railways and Tramroads, so as the more
effectually to Adapt 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 Railways as lies between the commencement of each or
either of the said intended Railways, Tramroags, 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 portion
of the Sirhowy Tramroad, which belongs to the said 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 the other portions of the Sirhowy Trammed. and
likewise the Rumney 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 manner such Tramroada 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 Ile to the north of Blaine
Church and 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
resp actively.

And it is also intended to repeal the prevision of the Newport and
Pontypool Railway Act Amendment Act, la4S, 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.
And 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 ofshares,
the acceptance, merging and re-issue of shares forfeited or in arrear,
and the borrowing of money en mortgage or otherwise.
And it is also intended to apply for powers to :liter, classify, and

increase the tolls and rates autliOilsed 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 be 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 show-
ing the general direction of the said Railways or Tramroads and
alterations, and also a copy of this notice as published in the
"London 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
ranch 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 case of
each parish, with the parish clerk of each such parish, at his resi-
dence, and in the cage of each extra parochial place, with the parish
clerk of some parish immediately adjoining thereto, at his residence.
on or before the said 29th day of November instant.
Dated the 10th day of November, 1841.

A. WADDINGTON,
Solicitor for the Bill.