The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-14 00:00:00

910 the HOLDERS of SCRIP in the
_j_ _ BARNSLEY JUNCTION RAILWAY.

GENTLEMEN,

Immediately on the unexpected decision of the Committee to
whom this Bill was referred, your Directors, in order to protect
the interests of the Shareholders, entered into a provisional arrange-
ment with the Directors of the SHEFFIELD and MANCHESTER
LINE, the purport and result of which will be collected from the
following Resolutions passed (inter alia) at a Special General Meet-
ing of the Sheffield and Manchester Company, held at Sheffield, on
the 6th instant :
Moved by JOHN PARKER, Esq., M.P. ; seconded by THOMAS BLAKE,

Esq., and carried—

That the Directors be, and they aro hereby authorised to take the
necessary measures to construct a line or lines of railway to connect
this railway with the Midland Railway, through the Barnsley and
Silkatone district, with such further extensions eastward as may
hereafter be deemed necessary by the Directors, and to make such
short branches and tramways for developing the coal traffic as they may
deem necessary or expedient.
Moved by JOHN PARKER, Esq., M.P. ; seconded by the MASTER

CUTLER of Sheffield. and carried,
That in furtherance of the objects, the Directors be, and they are
hereby empowered to admit the shareholders of theßarnsloyJunetion
Railway Company as Shareholders in the Sheffield, Ashbo-under-
Lyne, and Manchester Railway Company, by a commutation of in-
terest, upon the following terms :—That is to say, that the holders of
every 2.51. share, or of every two shares of 121. 10s. each, in the Barnsley
Junction Railway Company, be entitled to receive one share of 251.
in the stock of this Company. And that the Directors of this Com-
pany be, and they are hereby authorised from time to time, to raise
and issue so much new stock as shall be required ; as well for car-
rying this arrangement into effect, as also for the several objects
mentioned is the foregoing resolutions, and other objects which they
have in contemplation.

Your Directors feel no hesitation in recommending the Share-
holders to accede to the above arrangement, and to testify their as-
sent thereto by forwarding their Scrip to Mr. Platford, secretary to
the Sheffield and Manchester Railway Company, Store-street, Man-
chester, oil or before the Ist day of July next, to be forthwith ex-
changed for Scrip Certificates in that Company, pursuant to the
above resolutions, which, it will be observed, contemplate an imme-
diate amalgamation. To such of the Shareholders as decline to
accede to the above arrangement, the Directors can only make the
alternative offer to return to them their deposits in full, which they
do, and at the same time beg to inform them that they will be en-
titled to orders for the amount, on forwarding their Scrip Certificates
to Mr. Shepherd or Mr. Newman, solicitors, Barnsley.
This arrangement will render unnecessary any general meeting of
the Shareholders, pursuant to the notification of Messrs. Shepherd
and Newman, of the 25th April last.
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
CHARLES TEE, Chairman of the Board of DirectorB
of the Barnsley Junction Railway.
Barnsley, 12th June, 1845. '