The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-11 00:00:00

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to issued
the public pursuant. to resolutions of General and Special General
Meeting of Shareholders, held at the office of the Company on Wed-
nesday, March 6, 1844.
Qapital £129,200, in. 6,460 shares of Z2O . each. Deposit £2 per
share. Calls not to exceed £3 per share, at intervals of not less than
three inontlis.

Interes t at £4 per cent. per annum on deposit and calls until com-
pletion of the Knightsbridge Extension Line.
Preference rental dividend of £1 per share, and further contingent
dividends, as mentioned in the resolutions of the Proprietors.
Written applications. for shares to-be-sent to-the Secretary of the
West London Railway Company, 11, Abchurcklane, London, on or
beflore the 16th day of Afarch instant, when the • allotment will be
m4de. By order of the Directors,

• - JOHN THOMPSON, Sec•
Office 7, Abchureh-lane, 3farcii 7, 1844.

WEST LONDON RAILWAY..
At a General and Special General Meeting of the Share-
holders of the West Lendon 'Railway Company, 'held at' the Com-
pany's offices, 11, Abchurcti-lane, in the City of London, on Wed-
nesday,, the 6th day of March, 1844, it was unanimously resolved :-
1, That this Genera Land Special General Meeting of the Share-
hoiders of the West Londoif Ratiway Company, called and sum-
moned in pursuance of the provisions of the ,Gompany's Act of La-
corivrationMo resolve-that the Directors of the said Cemaany shall
proceed if/the next"session of Parliament to apply for ari Act or Acts
of Parliament, authorising the said West London Railway Company
to extend the West London Railway from its present Terminus, at or
near, to the Kensington Canal-basin, to, at, or near to Knightsbridge,
in the county of Middlesex, by such line and such direction and with
such Termffins as the said Directors shall determine upon and think
mist expedient, and that the said Directors shall take all the 'neces-
sary steps for the purpose. -
2. That tfie Directors shall in the meantime, until such Act or
Acis ,of Parliament be obtained, make such , purchases, of land and
other property, and enter into such contracts for works and other
purposes, and cause such works, excavations, embantmeuts, and
other things to be carried on and completed, as they sintll think
proper for the purpose of making and completing such extension
railway.
3. That a capital or sum of 129,2001. shall be raised for such ex-
tension, divided into 6,460 shares, of 201. each, to be called " West
London-Railway Knightsbridge Extension Shares."
4. That the Directors be authorised, when „they shall have ob-
tained Parliamentary power for the purpose, 'to issue such shares,
and in the meantime to issue such certificates or scrip receipts in
lien thereof, as they shall think lit.

5. That the said sum of 201. per share shall be paid as follows,vix. :
a deposit of 2/. per share at such time and place as the Directers
shalleppoint, and the remaining 181. per ,share iti,calls of such
amount and at such times as the Direct Ors shall from time to time
require. 'Each call, however, riot to exceed 31. per share, and to be
payab4 at intervals of not less than three calendar :months from
eaChother, and not less than twenty-one days' notice-of every such
call to be given by advertisement ht, -Att the- least, two London
newspapers. , • E'ssz • -• •
6. That interest, after the rate of El. per cent. per annum,„be patil
on such deposits and calls from the' respective times of- the Same
being: aid to the time of the said extension; line. being_ opened for-
publid • traffic, snob interest to be payable en -,the sthfuly and the
sth January in each year.
7, The preference dividends to be Payable fa-the hilt-class pre-
ference and Thames extension Shareholders sluipliot be postponed or
prejudicially affected, but shall continue to ItaVe the priority assured
to them by the former resolutions of the Proprietary.
8. The Knightsbridge extension Shareholders-shall, from the time
of the completion of their extension line, have (subject to the pre-
ference given to the Shareholders referred to in clause 7) a preference'
rental dividend of 1/. per share, to be payable out of the'
profits of the whole line of railway belonging to the Compan,t, as
weft original as extended, with priority over the second class pre-
ference and original shares of the Company; and that subject to
such dividends, and to:such preferenceitts aforesaid,liny sgrplus profit
there may be in the current year shall be divided eqtiajTy amongst
all the Shareholders, whether holders of original, first or seconfLelsss
preference, or Thames or Knightsbridge extension sharei' to Piopor-
lion to the number of their respective shares, the holder of each ex-
tension Pude being in the division of such surplus profit entitled to
the same dividend as the holder of an original share.
9'. As the capital proposed to be raised far exceeds the estimated,
cost of the site and works of the proposed extension line, end, is, it-
tended to provide also a fund for the purchase of land, anti- Ptifet,
luable property, which the Directors have reason to believe the'Com-..
pany will be required to buy; and which, if so bought, may be resold
without injury t• the undertaking, such excess of property, if so pur-
chased; shall, with all convenient speed, be resold, and 'the proceeds
applied in the purchase and extinction of Knightsbridge extension
shares, in manner mentioned in clause 10, next following; and if the
Coihpany be not required to purchase more land than is actually
wanted for the site of the line and terminus, then the surplus capital
arising from calls shall in like manner be applied in the purchase and
extinction of shares in manner after -mentioned. . •
10. When and so often as there shall be,- either from the resale of
land and property, or otherwise, as before mentioned, an excess of
capital to the amount of 4,0001. at the least, the Directors shall (hav-
ing previously obtained the consent of a General Meeting of Share-
holders),cause advertisements to be inserted in two London news-
papers, informing the holders of Knightsbridge extension shares that
a sum, to be specified in such advertisement, is applicable to the pur-
chase of Knightsbridge extension shares, and calling on such Share-

holderss to send in tenders of the lowesi price at which they may be
disposed to sell their shares, and the Directors shall accept the lowest
tenders, and apply the money mentioned- in the advertisement in
the purchase of shares so far as such money will extend, and, from
the time of such purchase, the shares-so to be bought shall be extin-
guished, and merged in the undertaking ; and this operation shall be
repeated as often as there shall be funds-in the hands of the Directors
available for the purpose. -
I A portion of the shares mentioned in the third reselution to be
fixed by the Directors shall be set _apart for the present Shareholders
of the Company, and the remaining shares shall be offered to the
public.

12. That by notice, in at least two of the London newspapers, each
registered Proprietor of shares shall he required to give notice, in
writing, to the Directors, of his intention to take and become the
Proprietor of the shares to be appropriated to him, and that the same
new shares, or as many of them as shall be required, shall be appro-
priated to such of the Proprietors as shall, on or before.the 16th day
of March instant, give notice in writing to the Directors, at the
Company's offices, Abchurch-lane, London, of the intention to take
up such new shares.
13. That. every Proprietor not duly paying, on or before the day to
be named by the Directors, such deposit of 21. for each new share, or
neglecting, by himself or his assigns, to sign the Parliamentary under-
takings when required to do so, which will he prepared for the signa-
ture of the Proprietors engaging to pay the above remaining instal-
ments, shall be deemed and taken to have rejected his proportion of
such new shares, or of so many of them in respect of which he shall
have refused or neglected to pay such deposit punctually, or to sign
such Parliamentary undertakings as aforesaid ; and the Directors are
empowered and directed by this Meeting either to distribute and
appropriate such of the said shares upon which the said deposit shall
not have been duly paid, or in respect of which the Parliamentary
undertakings have not on request been signed, or which shall not have
been duly applied for, amongst those Proprietors of the Company
who shall in such form as the Directors may require have expressed
their willingness to take and purchase a larger number of such shares
than the proportion to be appropriated to them, or to offer the same
to the public, aS the said Directors shall think fit; and in making such
further distribution or offer the Directors shall fix such terms of im-
mediate payment of the deposit as they shall think fit.
14. That in case any holder of such scrip or new shares aforesaid
shall neglect to pay punctually any one of the said instalments on any
of his shares, at the respective times hereinbefore mentioned or re-
fared' to, he shall be charged with interest at the rate of 5 per cent.
per annum upon the instalment or instalments in arrear until duly
paid ; and furthermore, so long also as and during the time such in-
stalment or instalments shall be in arrear and remain unpaid on any
of his shares, the instalments lie shall have paid to the Company on
all the shares held by him shall cease to carry interest, and no inte-
rest shall accrue or become due thereon until his arrears of calls on
each and every share held by him shall have been duly paid and sa-
tisfied ; and further, that in the event of any instalment being in ar-
rear and unpaid for the space of two months from the time appointed
for payment, the said Directors shall be authorised to declare the
share or shares forfeited on which such instalment shall be in arrear,
and the same shall immediately on such declaration being passed by
the Board of Directors become and be absolutely forfeited.
.15. That this Meeting do authorise and empower the Directors to
carry Out the foregoing resolutions by all proper legal instruments.

BY AUTHORITY of his MAJESTY the
EMPEROR of AUSTRIA.—WiII take place irrevocably on
the 16th of March, 1844, the DISTRIBUTION of NTNB beautiful
ESTATES of a value front 1,480,054 Francs, and MONET PRIZES
from 150,000 Francs down to 125 Francs of Common Bonds, and ht
the Special Distribution of the Red Bonds 32,509 gains will be obtained,
and each Red Bond must gain a higher or lower amount. Price of a
Common Bond, 1/. ; a Red Bond, 2/. ; for 51. Five Common Bonds and
one Red Bend ; for 101. Eleven Common Bonds and Two Red ; for
201. Twenty •three Common Bonds and Three Red.
Apply, without delay, to Messis. JACOBS and Co.,Bankers, Frank-
fort-on-the-Maine ; or to save Postages, Letters may be addressed to
Mr. Jacobs, 34, Wellelose-square.