The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-15 00:00:00

N°.l7 932

OUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY•
At the TWENTY-SEVENTH HALF-YEARLY GENERAL
and SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors of the
South-Eastern Railway, held, in pursuance of the Act of Incorpora-
tion, at the Bridge House Hotel, London-bridge, on THURSDAY, the
14th day of March, 1850,
JAMES MAC GREGOR, Esq., Chairman, in the chair,
The advertisement convening the Meeting was read, and the fol-
lowing Resolutions were passed :-
1. That the Common Scala the Company be affixed to the register
of proprietors

_no seal was affixed accordingly in the presence of the meeting.
It. That a register of. the shareholders of the Company, with the
amount of shat-es or stock they individually hold, be made up and
published anunally, and that every shareholder be entitled to have
cne upon payment of Is.
3. That the Report of the Directors and Stalement of Accounts, as
now read to this Meeting, be received and adopted, and that the same
be printed and circulutel among the proprietors, with copies of the
report of the public auditors of the accounts; together with the report
of the engineer. • • -;
4. That a dividend (less income-tax) of 9s. per share on the shares
paid up. and of 3s. Di. per share, on Che glares created on the 7th
day of November; 1844, be now ileclarWar.d,bo made payable on
the Bth day of April next. • • •I•
5. That John Bradshaw, Esq., be rc-eleced a Director of this
Company.
' 6. That the lion. James Byng be re.electel a Director of this
Company.
7. That John Charles Jacke, Esq.,bc re-elected a Director of this
Company.
8. That Francis Corwin Smitli, Esq., who has been elected a
Director of this Cotnpany to fill a vacancy in the direction on the
resignation of eit William Feilden, Bart., be continued a Director of
the Company.
9. That the Directors shall reduce their number to nine by ballot
among themsaves, at a inoating to be held within a week from

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to-day.
10. That this Meeting do stand adjourned till the'llth April, at
One o'clock P.M., for the election of auditors, awl that proprietors
who intend to be candidates for the office -are to give 14 days' notice
thereof to the Secretary, and that a list of the candidates be adver-

him in the public papers. '
___at 1001. per annum be paid as the amount of salary to each
of the three auditors when elected. •
12. That the No". 4 Shares remaining Uniisued on the 20th of Sep-
tember, 1849, which the Directors were authorised at the General
Meeting of the Proprietors' held on that day to issue at interest
thereon at the rate of 41. 10s. per cent. per ivinum, be placed on the
same terms of issue as the new shares authorised to be issued at the
Special General Meeting of the ProPrietors held on the aforesaid 20th
of September, 1849, at a guaranteed :rate of interest thereon in•per-
peiuity of 41. 10s. per cent. per annum ; and that the holders of the
aforesaid unissued No. 4 Shares shall not be entitled to any of the
privilegtcti of shareholders, but to interest only at the sate 41. 101.
per cent. per annum. e
13. That all the elfisises 9f shareS in the capital of the Gravelly be
converted and consolidated into capital stock on and after the Ist day
of May, 1850. The Old Shares, the shares commonly known as the
No. t Shares, and the shares commonly known as the No. 2 Shares,
of the nominal value respectively of 501. each, to ho converted and
consolidated into and to form part of the capital stock of the Company,
at 391. for each of such shares respectively, and to be designated "The
Consolidated South-Eastern Railway' Stock." The shares commonly
known as the No. 3 Shares of the nominal value of 501. each, to be
converted and consolidated into and to form part of the c ipital stock
of the company at 31/. fur each of such shares, and to be designated
"The Consolidated South-Eastern Railway No. 3 Steck." The
Th rd Shares, commonly called the No. 4 Shares, of the nominal
value of 161. 'l3s. 4d. each, to be converted and consolidated into and
to form part of the capital stock of the Company at 101. for each of
such Third Shares, and to be designated " The Consolidated South-
Eastern Railway No. 4 Stock." The Third Shares, commonly
called the No. 4 Shares, remaining unissued on the 20th of Septem-
ber, 1849, and the New Shares of 101. each authorised to be issued
at th Special General Meeting of the Proprietors held on the afore-
said e 20th of September, 1849, guaranteed respectively interest
thereon in perpetuity at the rate. of 41. 10s. per cent. per annum, to
be converted and consolidated into and to form part of the capital
stock of the Company at 10/.. for each of such guaranteed shares re-
spectively, and to be designated " The Consolidated South-Eastern
Railway Stock, guaranteed 434 per cent. in perpetuity." That the
capital stock of the Company be divisible into and transferable in
amounts of not less than 10/.
14. That the draft Bill now submitted to the Meeting, intituled
"A Bill to enable the South-Eastern Railway Company to raise a
further sum of Money," be approved, subject to such alterations as
to Parliament shall meet.
15. That the draft Bill now submitted to this Meeting, intleeled
"A Bill to ens le the South-Eastern Railway Company to Discon-
tinue the Payment of Interest on Calls paid on certain Classes of
Shares, and to enable the Molders of the same to participate In
Dividends, and to Amend the Acts relating to the said Company,"
be approved, subject to such alterations as to Parliament shall seem

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meet.
That the Mrectors be requested to convence a Special Meeting
of the Proprietors so soon as the aforesiaid Bill
or hasaft beg t become law, for
of
the purpose of determining the perio 1, from he 30th
June next, from which the payment or allowance of interest on the
said shares shall discontinue, an -1 the same be entitled to participate
in dividends.
16. That this Meeting do sanction and approve the contin-
uance of the allowance, out of capital, to the shareholders of
the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway of interest at the
rate of 51. 10s. per cent. per atrium on the paid-up capital
of such Company, amounting to 600,0001. from the 11th of
August, 1849, up to the period when the lease of the Reading,
Guildford, and Reigate Railway to this Company :hall be dated,
and that on the payment by the Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate Railway Company to this Company of Gail
ford, of
capital, or money raised by loan which at the date of the lease
may remain in the hands of the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate
Railway Company, this Company shall by their covenant indemnify
the Readiag, Guildford, and Reigate Railway Company against al
Interest to the amount of 4/. per cent. per anbum, which may at any
time then after be came due in respect of the present or any recewed
bond debt of the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate liallway. Com-
pany for 200,0001., so long as such debt shall remain undischarged,
and eg dust all other liabilities of the Reading, Guildford. ani Re a-
gate Railway Company, but not including the principal of such bond
debt or any excess of interest above 41. per cent. ; and that on the
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railriay Company agreeing to call
up from the shareholders of that Company the remainder, amount-
ing to 200,000/4 of the entire Parliamentary capital of the Reading,
Guildford, and Re igate Railway Company, to be applied in dis.charge
of the bond debt of the last-mentioned Company to the like amount,
this Company shall agree to pay to the Reading, Guildford, and Rei-
gate Railway Company interest upon the mum of 200,C001., as and
when so called up and applied in discharge of such bond debt, at the
rate of 41. per cent. per annum in perpetuity; and that this Com-
pany shall a-zree to an amalgamation of the two Companies on
the terms of the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Company
agreeing to consent to a Bill in Parliament, to be promoted
by, and at the expense of, this Company, within the
space of two years from the date of the lease, for an amalgama-
tion of the Companies, by exchanging the shares in the Reading,
Guildford, and Reigate Railway Company for Perpetual Debentures
or Preferential Stock of this Company carrying interest at the rate
of 51. 2s. 6a. per cent. per annum, on the mutual agreement that
by such Bill no alteration or change shall be proposed or consented
to be made in the now existing rates and tolls authorised by law to
`-ie levied by the said two Companies separately in reference to
ieir respective lines of railway ; and that this Meeting do approve
f the execution by the Company of the lease of the hl.e by th 3
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway Company, and of the
execution by this Company of a deed of covenant for carrying into
effect the bova-mentioned objects, the engressments of which pro-
posed leasae and deed of covenant have been submitted to this
Meeting.

JAMES MAC GREGOR, Chairman.
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Th 4 Chairman having left the chair, it was resolved unanimously
That the cordial thanks of the Proprietors ha given to the Chair
an and Directors for their valuablesiceEßßEßT, Secretary-. to the Comany.
G. S. Hcretary.

South-Eastern Railway Offices,
London Torminus, Ala:ch 14, 1850.

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