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London, England, 1851-11-22 00:00:00

BIRKENHEAD DOCKS.

(r U itTHER POWERS to BIRKENHEAD DOCK COMPANY-
ALTERATION of CONSTITUTION of BIRKENIIEAD DOCK
TRUSTEES - ARRANGEMENTS between BIRKENHEAD
DOCK COMPANY the GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY
COMPANY, the SHREWSBURY and CHESTER RAILWAY
COM PAN Y, and the SHREWSBURY and BIRMINGHAM
RAILWAY COMPANY, and the BIRKENHEAD, LANCA-
FIIIRE, and CHESHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY,
or anyt of them,, and BIRKENHEAD DOCK TRUSTEES, and
AMENDMENT OF ACTS.)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that APPLICATION is in-
tended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing session, fur an
ACT to alter and amend, extend and enlarge, and to repeal some of
the powers and provisions of the several Acts of Parliament fol-
lowing, or some of them (that is to say): local and personal Acts,
7 and 8 Vic., cap, 79 ; 8 and 9 Vic., cap. 4; 10 and 11 Vie., cap. 264
and cap. 265 ; 11 and 12 Vic., cap. 144 ; and 13 and 14 Vic., cap.
100 ; 'all relating to the Birkenhead Dock Commissioners and the
Trustees of the Birkenhead Docks ; and also the local and personal
Acts 8 and 9 Vie., cap. 60, and 11 and 12 Vic., cap. 9, relating to the
Birkenhead Dock Company.
And it is proposed by the intended Act to provide for the effectual
completion, within a period to be prescribed by the said intended
Act, of all the works authorised to be constructed by the said Acts
relating to the Birkenhead Dock Commissioners and the Trustees of
the Birkenhead Docks, and to enable the said Company and the
Grjeat Western Railway Company, the Shrewsbury and Chester
Railway Company, the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway
Company, and the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction
Railway
.Company, or any of the said companies, to advance monies,
or to give security for monies to be raised for the execution and
completion of the said works or some of them, on the security of the
lands, soil, or shore at Birkenhead, known as the South Reserve, and
other property now vested in the sold trustees under the said last-
mentioned Acts, or some of them, and on the rates and tolls to be levied
and rasa under the same Acts, or some of them, and to make provi-
sion for such security ; and also to enable the said trustees to grant
to the said Companies, or any of them, and the said Companies, or
any of them, to take bonds or other securities to be charged upon and
made payable out of the said lands, soil, and shore, and other pro-
perty, rates, and tolls, for securing any monies to be advanced or
guaranteed or seemed by the said Companies, or any of them, for
the purposes aforesaid, for the purpose or in the construction of the
works authorised to be constructed by such trustees, or any of them,
and to enable the said Companies, or any of them, to become the
purchasers of the said lands, soil, and shore at Birkenhead, known
as the South Reserve, and to enable the trustees for the time being
of the Birkenhead Docks to sell the same to the said Companies or
any of them, or otherwise to provide for the same being vested in
the said Companies or may of them, in manner to be provided in the
said Act; and also to enable the said Birkenhead Deck Company to
raise money for the purposes aforesaid by the creation of new shares
in their undertaking, and by borrowing on loan and upon the secu-
rity as well of their existing property as of the aforesaid lands, pro-
perty, tolls, and dues of the said trustees, and upon any property or
security they may receive or become entitled to under the authority
of the said intended Act from the said trustees.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to alter the con-
stitution of the said trustees of the Birkenhead Docks and the mode
of appointment of such trustees, and to provide for the appointment
of a board of trustees to hold office until the completion of the au-
thorised works of the trust, or until such other period as shall be
fixed by the said intended Act, and to constitute the Directors of the
said Comp mies, or any of them, members of such board ; and also to
provide for a further alteration in the constitution of such board of
trustees, from and after the completion of the authorised works of
the trust, or from and after such other period as shall be fixed by
the said intended Act, and to enable the said Companies, or any of
them, to nominate or appoint a certain number of trustees, who are
to constitute such last-mentioned or permanent Beard of Trustees.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to take powers
enabling the said Companies or any of them to enter into, and carry
into effect, such arrangements with the persons holding securities
upon the property of the said trust, for the conversion of their securi-
ties into fixed or other interests, as may be mutually agreed upon,
or as shall be provided by the said Bill.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to take powers to
alter the application of the tolls, rates, and duties authorised to be
taken and received under the said several Acts hereinbefore referred
to, or any or either of them, and to take powers to make any sums
to be advanced under the authority of the said intended Act by the
said Companies, for the purposes of the completion of the authorised
works of the said trust, or any of them, a charge upon the property
and tuture income of such trust prior to all sums already advanced
and expended under the authority of the six first recited Acts, or
any of them.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to amend, so far
as may be requisite for the purposes aforesaid, the several Acts fol-
lowing, relating to the Birkenhead Improvement Commissioners
and the Wallasey Improvement Commissioners, that is to say, local
and personal
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ria, cap. 3 ; and 8 and 9 Victoria, cap. 6.
And also the several (local and personal) Acts of Parliament fol-
lowing. or some of them (that is to say), sth and 6th William IV.,
cap. 107 ; 6111 William IV., caps. 36, 38, 77, and 79 ; 7th William
IV. and Ist Victoria, caps. 91 and 92 ; Ist and 2d Victoria, caps.
24 and 26 ; 2d and 3d Victoria, cap. 27 ; 3d and 4th Victoria, caps.
47 and 105; 4th and sth Vittoria, cap. 41 ; sth Victoria, session 2,
cap. 28 ; 6th Victoria, cap. 10 ; 7th Victoria, cap. 3 ; 7th and Bth
Victoria, cap. 68; Bth and 9th Victoria, caps. 40, 53, 155, 156,
184, 188, 190, and 191; 9th Victoria, cap. 14; 9th and 10th Vic-
toria, caps. 166, 181, 216, 239, 240, 278, 313, 315, 335, 337, 338,
319, and 402 ; 10th and 11th Victoria, caps. 60, 72, 76, 91,
101, 109, 149, 154, 226, and 243 ; 11th and 12th Victoria, caps. 28, 59,
74, 77, 82, 95,131, 133, 135, 151, 158, and 159; 14th and 15th Victoria,
caps. 48 and 81 ; 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 99 ; Bth and 9th Victoria,
caps. 42 and 115 ; 9th and 10th Victoria, caps. 250, 251, 274, and 275;
10th and 11th Victoria, cap. 144; 12th and 13th Victoria, cap. 55;
and 14th and 15th Victoria, cap. 131 ; Ist Victoria, cap. 107 ; 3d
Victoria, cap. 2; Bth and 9th Victoria, cap. 99 ; 9th and 10th Victo-
ria, cap. 91 ; 10th and 11th Victoria, caps. 222 and 223 ; and 14th and
15th Victoria, cap. 71; and 9th and 10th Victoria, caps. 307 and
308 ; 10th and 11th Victoria, cap. 80 ; and 12th and 13th Victoria,
cap. 85.
Dated the 13th day of November, 1851.
WM. STEPHENS, 38, Bedford-row, London,
Solicitor for the Birkenhead Dock Company.

.‘ORTH- WESTERN
RAILWAY.

AMENDMENT of ACTS, CREATION of NEW SHARES for
PAYMENT ofDEBT, EXTENSIONfrom CHESTER to RUMEN-

HEAD and BRANCHES.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that APPLICATION is intended
to be made to PARLIAMENT in the next session for an ACT to
alter, amend, extend, enlarge, or to repeal all or some of the powers
and provisions of the several Acts of Parliament, or some of them
following, relating to the London and North-Western Rail-
way Company ; that is to say: An Act passed in the session of
Parliament held in the 9th and 10th years of the reign of her present
Majesty, intituled an "Act to consolidate the London and Birming-
ham Grand Junction and Manchester and Birmingham Railways,•'
and the several other Acts distinguished in the Queen's printer's co-
pies of the local and personal Acts, as Bth and 9th Vic., cap. 156 ;
9th and 10th Vic., caps. 67, 80, 82, 152, 182, 184, 193, 231, 232, 233,
244, 248, 261, 269, 309, 328, 331, 359, 368, 369, and 396 ; and 10th
and 11th Vic., caps. 13, 107, 114, 118, 121, 132, 139, 159, 178, 188,
228, 236, 270, 271, 278, and 294; and 11 th and 12tk Tic., caps. 60
and 130 ; 12th and 13th Vic., cap. 74 ; 13th and 14th Vic., cap. 36 ;
and 14th and 15th Vic., caps. 28 and 94.
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And it is proposed by the said intended Act to enable the London
and North-Western Railway Company to extinguish their deben-
ture debt, or some part thereof; and for that purpose to create new
shares, and to guarantee in respect of the shares to be se created an
irredeemable preferential interest or dividend not exceeding 3)4 per
contum per annum.
And it is proposed by the said intended Act to authorise the Lon-
don and North-Western Railway Company to extend the line of their
railway from Chester to or near to Birkenhead, and for that purpose
to make and maintain the railways hereinafter mentioned with all
proper works and conveniences connected therewith ; that is to say:
Firstly, a railway commencing by a junction with the Chester and
Birkenhead line of the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junc-
tion Railway, within the limits of the general station at Chester, in
the parish of St. Oswald, in the county of the city of Chester, at or
near the point at which the main line of the Chester and Holy-
head Railway diverges, passing thence, in, through, or into
the several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial or other
placesfollowing, or same of them; that is to say, St. Oswald in the
county of the city of Chester, and St. Oswald, the Bache, the Holy
and Undivided Trinity, Blacon-cum.Crabhall, Blacon-cum-Crab-
wall, Crabwall, St. Mary-on-the-Hill, Mollington Banastre, Little
Mellington, Backford, Mollington Tarrant, Great Mollington, Lea,
Shotwick, Shotwick-park, Great Saughall, Little Saughall, Ca-
penhurst, Woodbank, Puddington, Burton, Nestor, Ledsharn,
Willaston, Eastham, Little Sutton, Childer Thornton, Hooton,
Itaby, Great Neston, Little Neston, Hargrave, Thornton Hough,
Thornton Mayes, Poulton Lancelot, Poulton-cum-Spittle, Spital,
Bebington, Bebbington, Bromlxwrow, Bromborough, Brombrow,
Brimstage, Storeton, Stourton, Woodchurch, Thingwall, Thingwell,
Barnston, Prenton, Landican, Oxtou, Noctorum, Upton, Over-
Church, Bidston, Bidston-cum-Ford, Wallasey, Wallasea, Liscard,
and Poulton-cum-Seacombe, all In the county of Chester, and termi-
nating on the shore of the river M
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to be reclaimed from the river Mersey, vested in
the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods and Forests,
land revenues, works, and buildings usually denominated
the N rth Reserve , situate in the township of Poulton-cum-
Ceacombe, in the parish of Wallasey and the county of
and Chester.
Secondly—A Branch Raiway, with all proper works con-
veniences diverging out of the first-mentioned intended railway, to
tile warehouses of the Birkenhead Dock Company at Birkenhead ;
and which said branch railway wiil commea:'e by a
junction with the said first-mentioned intended railway in
Ilidston Moss, otherwise called Bidston Marsh, belonging to
Bober Vyner, Esquire, in the township of Eld.ston
Bidston, other-
wise called .. Bidston-eum-Ford, in the parish of ,
in the county of Chester, passing thence in, through,
or into the several parishes, townships, and extra parochial places
following, or some of them; that is to say—Wallasey, Bidston,
Bidston-cum-Ford, Claughton-cum-Grange, Claughton, and Birken-
head, all in the county of Chester, and terminating at or near
the warehouses of the Birkenhead Dock Company, situated on
the south side of Wallasey Pool, in the parish, township, chapelry,
of Chester. Thirdly—A
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Winder Lyon Winder, Esquire, and occupied by Thomas Johnson,
in the township of Prenton and parish of Woodchurch, in the county
of Chester, passing thence in, through, or into the several parishes
townships, and extra-Parochial and other places following,
or some of them, that is to say: Bebbington, Storeton,
Woodchurch, Trenton, Oxton, i laughton-cum-Grange, Claugh-
ton, Bidston, Tranmere, and Birkenhead, all in the county
of Chester, and terminating at or near the Birkenhead Ferry,
in the parish, township, ehapelry, or place of Birkenhead, in the
said county of Chester. Fourthly—A short branch railway, or
curve, to connect the first-mentioned intended railway with the
railway authorised by the " Parkgate Railway Act, 1847" (10th and
11th Vic., can. 187), at or near the point where the said first-de-
scribed railway will intersect the road from Parkgate to Bebbington,
which short branch railway, or curve, will be situated wholly within
the township of Thornton Hough, otherwise called Thornton Mayes,
and parish of Neston, in the county of Chester.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to enable the said
London and North-Western Railway Company to purchase lands
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And notice is hereby fhrther given that a published map and
plans and sections describing the lines and levels of the said
proposed railways respectively, and of the lands to be taken for
the purposes thereof, together with a book of reference to such plans,
and a copy of this notice, as published in the " London Gazette,"
will be deposited, before the 30th day of November, 1851, with the
clerk of the peace of the county and city of Chester, at his
office in the city of Chester, and with the clerk of the
peace of the county of Chester, at his office in the said city of
Chester; and that copies of so much of the said plans, sections, and
book of reference as relate to the several parishes and extra parochial
places in or through which the said intended railways are proposed to
be made, together with a copy of this notice, as published in the
" London Gazette," will be deposited, before the said 'oth day of
November, as follows (that is to say)—in the case of parishes, with
the parish clerks of such parishes respectively, at their respective
placesofabode ; and in the case of the parish, township, chapelry,
er place of Birkenhead, with the clerk of the parochial church called
or known by the name of St. Mary, in Birkenhead, at his place of
abode; and in the case of any extra-parochial place, with the parish
clerk of some parish adjoining thereto, at his place of abode.
Dated this 10th day of November, 1851.
SAMUEL CAR TER,
SWIFT and WAGSTAFF,/ Solicitors.

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