The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-16 00:00:00

A3fALGA3IATION.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Application
is intended to be made to Par •, meat, in the ensuing
session, for an Act to alter, amen . • nlarge, repeal, or-consoli-
date the powers and provisio f the several Acts hereinafter
mentioned, or some of the . ; that is to say, An Act passed in
the session of Parliarr,• hoiden in the tenth and eleventh
years of the reign o er present Majesty, intituled "An Act
to repeal two sev • • 1 Acts relating to the Liverpool Gas Light
Company, an' substitute other provisions in lieu thereof,
and to enabl the said Company to raise a further sum of mo-
ney ;" an Act passed in the fourth year of the reign of his
Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled " An Act for lighting
with Oil Gas the town of Liverpool and certain places adjacent
thereto;" an Act passed in the fourth year of the reign of his
late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled " An Act to
empower the Liverpool Oil Gas Light Company to produce gas
from coal and other materials; and to amend the Act relating
to the said Company;" and an Act passed in the seventh year
of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled " An Act to amend
and enlarge the provisions of two several acts for lighting with
gas the town of Liverpool and•certain places adjacent thereto."
And it is intended by the Act so to he applied for, to autho-
rize and empower the union and amalgamation into one under-
taking of the Liverpool Gas Light Company and the Liverpool
New Gas and Coke Company, and the respective capitals, stock
shares, property, and effects of the Liverpool Gas Light Com-
pany and the Liverpool New Gas and Coke Company, and the
vesting in one Company of all the capital, stock, shares, pro-
perty, and effects, powers, rights, and privileges now vested, or,
which before the passing of the Act so to be applied for, may
become vested in the said two companies, or either of them,
and to authorize the incorporation of a new Company, for car-
rying out the objects mentioned in the said Acts respectively.
And it is further intended by. such Act so to be applied for,
to enable such new Company to raise, for the purposes of the said
Company, the Capital and Monies then remaining to be raised
by the said Liverpool Gas Light Company and Liverpool New
Gas and Coke Company, respectively, by such and the like
means as those by which the said Companies were severally
empowered to raise the same ; and to authorize the said amal-
gamated Company to receive and collect rates or rents for or
in respect of gas to be supplied by them ; and to alter the maxi-
mum price for gas authorized to 'be charged by the said Act
passed in the seventh year of the reign of her present Majesty,
to the maximum price for gas authorized to be charged by the
said Act passed in the session of Parliament holden in the tenth
and eleventh years of the reign of her said Majesty ; and to
consolidate and fix the Reserved or Contingent Fund for the
said amalgamated Company ; and to enable the same Company
to purchase and hold lands and houses by agreement. And in
such Act so to be applied for, it is intended to insert all such
powers and provisions as may be considered proper or expe-
dient for carrying. into effect the several objects above-
mentioned.

Dated this thirteenth day of November, 1847.
CARSON and ELLIS, } Solicitors to the Liverpool Gas
Liverpool, Light Company.
JOHN B. LLOYD, 1 Solicitor to the Liverpool New
Liverpool, I ' Gas and Coke Company.

LIVERPOOL DOCKS.

ERECTION OF WAREHOUSES AND. CONSTRUCTION

OF NEW DOCKS.

MOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Application is
IN intended to he made to Parliament, in the next session,
for an Act to enable the Trustees of the Liverpool Docks to
build (in pursuance of an Act relating to the Liverpool Docks,
passed in the session held in the ninth and tenth years of the
reign of her present Majesty) Warehouses upon and around the
quays of all the docks made or now b • made, in Liverpool
aforesaid, belonging to the said Tru s ; and also to authorize
the said Trustees forthwith to bif arehouses on one or more
of the dock quays which no elong or shall hereafter belong
to the said Trustees, in the wnships, parishes, or extra-paro-
chial place hereinafter n tinned, or any of them, as soon as
may be after the pas • g of the proposed Act. And also to
authorize the said T tees to purchase, by compulsion or agree-
ment, lands, bui rags, docks, basins, wharfs, quays, piers,
tenements, her Laments, and premises, within the township
and parish of Liverpool, and the `townships of Kirkdale and
Bootle-cum-Linacre, in the parish of Walton-on-the Hill, and
within the extra-parochial place of Toxteth-park, all in the
county of Lancaster' and to extinguish all existing rights and
privileges connected with such lands. And to construct and
maintain, alter, vary, extend, and enlarge Wet Docks. Graving
Docks, Basins, cuts, piers, wharfs,.quays, locks, bridges? and
ottitf works, on the said lands, to be purchased as aforesaid, in
the said townships and parishes, and extending northwardly
from lands which the said Trustees were, by an Act relating to
the docks and harbour of Liverpool, passed in the session held
in the seventh and eighth years of the reign of her present Ma-
jesty, authorized to purchase. And to construct locks, bridges,
and other works in connection therewith. And also to autho-
rize the said Trustees to enter into and to perfect contracts
and agreements with any bodies politic or corporate, persons,
or companies, for effecting all or any of the purposes requisite
and necessary to enable the said Trustees to construct, lay
clown,anti use coinnmnications by Signals, by means of Electric
Currents and Electric TelegraMs, between the town and port
of Liverpool and such placesTr situations in the counties of
Lancaster, Chester, Denbigh, Caernarvon, Flint, and the Isle of
Anglesea, and Holyhead Island, as the said Trustees may deem
expedient ; and also, for the purposes aforesaid, and with the
consent of the owners and occupiers thereof, to purchase, or
rent on lease, or otherwise to hire and take any lands and here-
ditaments, in such places and situations, or any of them, and
to erect signal-houses and other buildings thereon; and to en •
ter into contracts and agreements, with any persons or compa-
nies, for the use of Electric Telegraphs. And it is further pro-
posed by the said intended A,t, to take powers for raising
further Sums of Money, on security of .certificates ; and for
Consolidating (with the consent of the bondholders) the Debt
secured on the dock rates and duties into Stock or Consolidated
Debt, bearing one or more rate or rates of interest. And for
amending, extending, enlarging, varying, and explaining or
repealing some of the powers and provisions contained in the
Acts relating to the docks and harbour of Liverpool, or some
of them, passed, respectively, in the eighth Tear of the reign of
Queen Anne,rthe third year of the reign of King George the
First, the eleventh year of the reign of King George the Second,
the second, twenty-fifth, thirty-ninth, fifty-first, fifty-third, and.
fifty-ninth years of the reign of King George the Third respec-
tively, the sixth and ninth years of the reign of King George
the Fourth, respectively, the session held in the eleventh year
of the said last-mentioned reign and of the Itirst year of the
reign of Kin; William the Fourth, and in the fourth year of the
reign of her present Majesty, and in the sessions held in the
sixth and seventh, and seventh and eighth years of the reign of
her present Majesty, in the eighth year of the reign of her pre-
sent Majesty, and in the session held in the ninth and tenth
years of the reign of her present Majesty. And for taking
further and other powers relative to the present and future
Docks, Warehouses, and Works of the said Trustees.
And NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN, that on or
before the thirtieth day of November instant, Plans and Sec-
tions relating to the proposed Works as required by the Stand-
ing Orders of Parliament, and describing the lands required to
be taken for the purposes thereof, together with books of re-
ference to such plans, containing the names of the owners or
reputed owners, lessees ,or reputed lessees, and occupiers of
such lands, buildings, and premises, and a copy of this No-
Cice, as published in the London Gazette, will be deposited for
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GE WRTHINGTON,
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the Trustees of the Liverpool Docks.
Liverpool, Bth November, 1847.