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London, England, 1845-10-20 00:00:00

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Provisional Committee of the Dover and Deal Railway
Company.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot to me sha
of 201. each in the proposed Dover and Deal Railway ; and I her
undertake to accept that or any less number, and to pay the
posit of 21. 2s. per share thereon, and to execute the Parliament,
Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
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THE BELGIAN GRAND JUNCTIO
RAILWAY COMPANY.
Capital, 1,759,000/., in 87,500 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. per Share.
DIIECTORS.
Sir John Nicoll Robert Campbell, K.C.H. Deputy-Chairman of i -r
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Chairman
Henry Bainbridge, Esq. banker.
Francois Frederick Clossmann, Esq. Chairman of the Great Luxe
bourg Railway Company
William Shelford Fitzwilliam, Esq. Director of the Essex guidSiill
Railway Company
John Howell, Esq. Director of the Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Pres 4
Railway Company
BANKERs.
In London—Messrs. Puget, Bainbridges and Co., St. Paul's Chur
yard.
In Liverpool—The Commercial Bank of Liverpool.
In Brussels—The Societe Generale.
Somerons—Messrs. Lawrence and Plews, Bucklersbnry.
ENGINEERS—Sir John Macniell, L.L.D. I.R.S. and James Tkompt
Esq. F.R.S.E. M.R.I.A.
BELGIAN ENGINEER—Mons. Desire Joseph 3larchal.
SECRETARY—II. C. Hastings, Esq.

The Directors have for some time past been in direct commun;
lien with the Belgian Government, and they have entered in•
preliminary arrangement, under date of the 27th of September, 11
with the Minister of public Works, by which the Minister grant. •
them the preference for the concession of a railway, to be called ' •
"Grand Junction," and engages to conclude with the Directory
provisional contract, previously to submitting the " Projet de
for royal approbation, and also to apply for the sanction of the Let
lature.
The valuable and important ironworks of Couvin will also, um
the same agreement, be ceded to the Company,
The Belgian Grand Junction Railway will directly connect ts
provinces of Brabant, Haintsult, Liege, Limbourg, and Namur, w
each other, and with the Government lines of railway, as also w •
the several lines of Liege and Namur, Landen and Hasselt, Louv.
and Jemeppe, Sambre and Meuse, and the Great Luxembourg
Mons. Marchal, the eminent Belgian engineer, has carefally
sr
veyed the line, and has deposited the necessary plans, sections,
estimates with the Belgian Government.
Mr. James Thomson, one of the Company's engineers, has al',
gone over the line, and reports most favourably upon the pecul
facilities for the construction of the railway, and the entire absen •
of all engineering difficulties. •
The Chairman and two of the Directors have carefully travers
the whole of the line, and have received the most positive east
antes of support from the local authorities and landed proprietors.
The provinces which the railway will unite were found by t-
census of 1844 to comprise a population of 2,188,551, and the di
tricts which it will traverse are situated in the heart of Belgiur
mid comprise an area of 165 square miles. The entire length of tl.
Belgian Grand Junction Railway will be 102 English miles.
This portion of the country is emphatically termed the Granary
Belgium, and, in addition to its vast agricultural produce, is rich
ironstone, lead, marble, stone, and slate quarries. It has also nun'
roux distilleries, extensive breweries, ironworks, and large manufe
tories of porcelain, glass, paper, Beetroot, sugar, gunpowder,
The great coal-fields of Charleroi and Liege, which are the most c
tensive in Belgium, will, by means of this line, be enabled to sup!
all parts of the kingdom at a very reduced rate.
The Government lines already completed, as well as the seve
private lines now in course of construction, will necessarily be
feeders to the Grand Junction lino, as it will unite with the whoh
them, and will traverse a district destitute of all water communi
tion, and very imperfectly whilst the invaria
rule of the Belaian Government supplied
mentn withotto roals ;
permit
any
competing lir
must necessarily ensure to this Company the entire traffic of
country through which this line will pass.
upon the improbable
been carefully' rind accurately- prepaciTed;sea
Tables, calculat si with reference to the. prneds,ent amount of traffic, h:
when the Grand Junet
as incases, and more pa
Railway is constructed, the share
all
sumption that there w eventhen mem' Inholders would •
ill be no
d facilities of communication have b.
cularly in Belgium, increase •
Wed by a great increase of
large interest on their capital. But,
traffic, there can be no do
accompanied
that the Grand Junction
dividend to the shareholders.
The expense of construction, and the subsequent expenses of we
log the line, arc very much less than in English railways ; and i
an important feature that the enormous outlay incident to a Parl
mentary contest in England is avoided.
A considerable saving will also be effected in the cost of iron,
of the locomotive engines and traffic material, which will be manut
tured at the Couvin works; and tl'e Company have, therefore, •
peculiar advantage of being independent of a supply from any of
quarter, and free from the delay and disappointment consequent u, •
the present increased demand.
The grant will be for ninety years, and the Act will provide t '
the railway shall, for the whole term, be exempt from all rates
charges whatsoever, whether local or national.
By the law of Belgium, this Company will be constituter:
Societe Auonyme, and the liability of each shareholder will
limited to the amount of his respective shares.
A second payment of 2/. per share will be required one month a
the Concession shall have been ratified by the Directors, and .
subsequent calls will be made at such periods as the Directors I
determine.
An accountable receipt will be given to each subscriber on paym
ed for certitleate
of his deposit, which receipt must be exch
withinang s
nwasiy, twenty-one days a
shares, at the office of the Co requiring such exelnui
the first appearance of an advertisement
such advertisement the
to be inserted once n London Gazette,
two daily Morning London newspapers.
three times in each ci f
' t '1 h
with this condition w i al on t e subscriber
non-compliance
forfeiture of his deposits.
will be given by advertisement in the London ,
Notice of calls
zette, and two daily Morning London newspapers; and if any cal'
any share shall remain unpaid for twenty-one days after the
named, the share shall become absolutely forfeited.
Interest at the rate of 41. per cent. per annum will be paid u'
the amount of capital paid up, such interest to b calculated from
time of obtaining the Act of the Legislature until the opening
the line.
All points of detail will, under the terms of the Convention
Act, be settled between the Belgian Government and the Directs
and it is one of the conditions on which the shares will be aPI
tioned and accepted, that the subscribers confide to the Directors
power to make such arrangement with the Belgian Government \
respect to any alterations or modifications of the line, and of
terms of the grant, as they may think expedient for the furthers
of the interests of the Company.
Applications for shares, in the subjoined form, to be made to
Secretary, at the Company's Offices, No. 64, Old Broad-street
Messrs. Lawrance and rims, Solicitors, Bucklersbury ; and to
following Sharebrokers :—Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Thu
needle-street, London; Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Is;
chester ; Messrs. 11. Davies and Co., Liverpool ; Me:
Wreford, Nicholls, and Co., Bristol; Messrs. Chantrell and Be
Leeds ; Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, Hull ; Messrs. Buell&
and Aitken, Glasgow ; Messrs. Oswald, George, and CO., Aberth
Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, Dublin; and Messrs. D
and nowden, Edinburgh.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the. Belgian Grand Junction Railway.
Gentlemen,---I request that you will allot me shares of
each in the Belgian Grand Junction Railway Company ; and I a
to accept such shares, or any smaller number you may allot to
and to pay the deposit thereon, and to execute the deed of settlen
and all other necessary deeds, when required.
Dated the day of 184 i•.
Signature, with Christian Name, at
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