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BIRMINGHAM AND DERBY JUNCTION RAILWAY.
AT the Half Yearly General Meeting of the Pro letors
of the BirminghAm and Derby Junction Rai ay Coin-
panv, held at Dee's Royal Hotel, in Birmingh on the Sib
day of February, 1838, pursuant to public ad tiseinent duly
inserted :
HENRY SMITH, Esq., Chairman of t oard of Directors,

In the Chair.

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gister of Proprietors.
The following Report, and Statements of Account annexed,
were read, and the succeeding Resolutions were unanimously
agreed to.

• REPORT.
Birmingham February Bth, 1838.
Since the last General Meeting of the Proprietors of the Bir-
mingham and Derby Junction Railway, the object of the Di-
rectors has been to make such arrangements as should ensure
the completion of the works at the earliest possible period, and
they have the satisfaction of stating that this may be effected
by Midsummer next year.
'The Contracts, already let, include the whole of the line from
the Junction with the London and Birmingham Railway at
Hampton-in-Arden, to Burton-upon-Trent, (with the exception
of about five miles in the neighbourhood of that town); and
the Contractors are all under engagements to complete the
.works by June, 1839.
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tion, and their progress is such as to leave no doubt in the
minds of the Directors that they may be finished, and the Rail-
way opened, in the time specified.
With respect to the remainder of the line up to Derby, the
works on the Contract near that town, which has been already
let, are being satisfactorily proceeded uith ;—for the next two
and a half miles, tenders have been made to the Company,
which are now under consideration.

The works in the neighbourhood of Burton-upon-Trent are
advertised to be let on the 7th day of March next, and the ne-
cessary steps will be immediately taken for the commencement
of the whole remaining part of the line, the works on which
are of so easy construction, as to offer no difficulty to the simul-
taneous completion of the whole.
Before the completion of the works of this line, the whole of the
London and Birmingham Railway will be open, and it does not
appear probable that any other line from the North of Englaird
to London can be completed by that time. The result, there-
fore, will be, that for a certain time, at least, the whole of the
traffic from London to the North of England, in addition to
that from Birmingham and the West, must pass along the line
of this Railway,—a consideration which has strongly impressed
the Directors with the expediency of finishing the works at the
earliest possible 'period ; and they are able also to state their
conviction that from the peculiar advantages of this Railway,
no future competing
line can aeprive it of a large and profita-
ble portion of the direct London trade to the North.
In order to' realise the important advantages here offered to
the Propiiet ors, it will of course he necessary that the requi-
site funds be placed at the disposal of the Directors, as the state
of the works may require.
A Statement of Accounts to the 31st of December last, as
required by the Art of Parliament, is annexed, and subjoined
is a Memorandum, showing the Payments on the respective
Calls at the present time. It will appear that the Receipts to
the 31st of December, 1837, were £95,611 10s. 6d.—the Dis-
bursements £51,341) ss. 2d.—and the Balance in hand was
£44,271 ss. 4d. It will also be seen that on two hundred and
sixty-three Shares, the Second Call has not yet been . paid :
this default of payment on a large portion of these has arisen
from disputes as to the Proprietorship, and the Directors have
thought it their duty to declare the whole forfeited.