The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-14 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL DOCKS.

ALTERATION OF THE DOCK TRUST, AND AMEND-
MENT OF ACTS.

VOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application
1.1 is intended to be made to Parliament, in the next Session,
for an Act or Acts, to transfer all the powers, privileges, rights,
authorities, and duties of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses
of the Borough of Liverpool, as Trustees for executing, by the
Council of such Borough, the powers and provisions of all, or
taon y
theof
Dockst he Ac
andts o f
HarbourParliament
of
Liverpool, hereinafter
tomc
Trus-
tees or persons to be nominated, appointed, or constituted Jo
and by the said intended Act or Acts, and in the manner to be
therein defined and enacted, and to confer upon and vest In
eenrttaioinnedoth
the said Trustees or persons so to be nominated, appointed, to
constituted, all such rights and privileges as may be necessary
or expedient in that behalf.
And it is also proposed by t aid intended Act or Acts to
extinguish the present rig powers, and privileges asts/
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body politic and corporat and as well in any elective capaci,
as otherwise, of the M or, Aldermen, and Burgesses, and of
the Mayor, Alderm Bailiffs, and Common Council, and °,7
the Council of Borough of Liverpool, or of such and !A
many of the b yor bodies respectively so named or designated
in any of t Acts hereinafter mentioned as are now Trustees
of the Liverpool Docks, and to vest all the powers and autho'
rities granted to or now vested in such Trustees, under and ilf
virtue of the said Acts relating to the Docks and Harbour ?si
Liverpool,. and of the Act to provide for the regulation v,,5
Municipal Corporations in England and Wales in the Truste.,..
or persons who shall, by the said intended in
or Acts u;
nominated, appointed, or constituted a body politic and .c°4,
porate, by the name and style of " The Trustees of the Dv'
pool Docks." other
relating
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act or Acts to
alter, vary, enlarge and extend the powers and authorities l;
lating to the election of the Committee for the Affairs of the
estate of the Trustees of the Liverpcol Docks, and of Is
Chairman and Deputy. Chairmen of such Committee, and
to their continuance in office respectively, and also to eni;
large, extend, alter or vary the powers and authorities now
vested in such Committee, and to make various other PP/
visions relative thereto.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act or Acts!:
alter, amend, extend, enlarge, vary, and explain or repeal t',
powers and provisions of the said Acts relating to the pow
and Harbour of Liverpool, or some of them, and the orderi%
and government of the same Docks, and other Works contain
in the Acts relating to the Docks and Harbour of Liverpool, pass
in the Eighth year of the reign of Queen Anne, the Third Yefe
of the reign of King George the First, the Eleventh year of til,
reign of King George the Second,theSecond,Tiventy- fifth , Thirtire
ninth, Fifty-first, Fifty-third, and Fifty-ninth years of t.qj
reign of King George the Third respectively; the Sixth o'.,
Ninth years of the reign of King George the Fourth respn
tively ; the Session held in the Eleventh year of the 1.8„5,
mentioned reign, and the First year of the reign of liwol
William the Fourth, and in the Fourth year of the reign „d
Her present Majesty, and in the Sessions held in the Sixth N•er
Seventh, and Seventh and Eighth years of the reign of Iler
present Majesty, and in the Eighth year of the reign of I'4
present Majesty, and in the Session held in the Ninth 84'1,
Tenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, and in :co,
Eleventh year of the reign of Her present Majesty, and at ,e
if necessary, such .of the provisions of the said Act for, the
regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and li slot
as relate to the Trustees of the Liverpool Docks, and ' s
taking all such further and other powers and authorities %
may be, necessary and expedient for effecting the purpose
aforesaid.
Liverpool, 13th November, 1848.
JOHN NORTH, Solicitor for the Bill.

BIRKENHEAD, LANCASHIRE, AND CHESHIRE

JUNCTION RAILWAY.

ABANDONMENT OF PART OF LINE, EXTENSION TO LONDOI4
AA ii N UKTII-IYDSTE-1114 RAIIAVAY,ALPFrRATION us LEVELS
OF CHESTER BRANCH, AND OF MODE OF CROSSING CAN"
NING-STREET, IN BIRKENHEAD, EXTENSION OF TIME F°l'
PURCHASE OF LANDS, ALTERATION OF TOLLS, AND W.'
CREASE OF CAPITAL AND AMENDMENT OF ACTS.)
NO
TICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is
intended to be made to Parliament, in the ensuing ses-
sion, for an Act to alter, amend, extend, and enlarge, and t°
repeal some of the powers, restrictions, and provisions of tile_
several Acts relating to the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Che-
shire shire Junction Railway, (that is to say,) local and personal
first Victoria, chapter 107, third Victoria, chapter 2, eiglir!
and ninth Victoria, chapter 99, ninth and tenth Victor's',
chapter 91, tenth and eleventh Victoria, chapters 222 and 2214
and to authorise the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Ches?l,o
Junction Railway Company to abandon the formation or
mss
by of the Main Line of the Railway, authorised to be ina"...
by the said Act of the ninth and tenth--of Victoria, .',i
lies between a point situate in a fiel , numbered 115, in ,',-of
township of Norton, and parish of uncorn, in the count}, .d
Chester, on the plans of the said ilway referred to in the an,
Act, and the termination of th aid Main Line, in the townsnN
of Heaton Norris, in the pa ' of Manchester, in the county, ,
Lancaster, and also to ab on the formation of the Branch ?Id
way authorised by the d Act, commencing in the townslP,P„c",
Altnncham and par' of Bowden, and terminating by a '„,„,`”,,,
tion with the Man ester South Junction and Altrinchain --iir,
way, in the tow ip of Timperley and parish of Bottdell)Aa`vt
thenf
thesaid
ninthco u count
and tenth
Chester,nthnf v i ebt
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secondly
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described
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etdh e; said
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to abandon the formation of the Branch Railway authorised n!,
the said Act, commencing in the town of Warrington, and ter,
minating by a Junction with the Grand Junction Railwa}V,:i
the township. and parish of Warrington, all in the count} ud
Lancaster, being the Railway in the said Act of the ninth an
tenth of Victoria lastly described.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to enable
the said Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Ito
way Company to make a Railway to commence by a Junct'w
with the said main line of their Railway in the said field Clll,,
bered 115 in the said township of Norton and palish of 11-...1
corn, and thence passing from, in, through, or into the sevf„li,
parishes, townships, and extra-parochial places of KelceNcl'he
Norton, and Runcorn, and to terminate by a Junction with tut
line of the London and North Western Railway at or n„,Kekewick, in the township of Kekewick and parish of Runc°'"
all in the said county of Chester. the
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to enable 0
said Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Rail!cli
Company to alter the levels of so much of the Chester 131'0',id
of the said Railway as authorised by thesaid Act of the tenth 0/$
eleventh Victoria, chapter 223,as lies between afield numberedh
in the township of Hoole, and parish of Saint John the BaPt sst,
on the plans of the said branch referred to in the the said la
mentioned Act, and a field numbered 43,in the township of P' Of
by and parish of Frodsham, on the said plans, which portiolte,
Railway will pass from, in, through, or into the several paria%t,
townships,. and extra-parochial places of Saint John the BaPt,lo
denr,o
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ham-on-the-Hill, Hapsford, Frodsham, and Helsby, all in
by the said intended Act to ens u•
the said Company to alter the mode of carrying the Railway ztea
thorised by the said Act of the eighth and ninth Victoria, chaps,
99, across a certain road in the extra-parochial chapel ry or w" 0
ship of Birkenhead, in the said county of Chester, knownnia
the Corporation-road or Canning-street, so as to carry the sfoi
road across the said Railway upon the level thereof insteat,l,4
by means of a bridge, and for such purpose to alter the exiat',",:i
level of the said road, within the said extra-parochial chapel
or township of Birkenhead.
theA ntidmiet
gisraanlstoedpbroypthose
toria, for the compulsory purchase of lands and houses within Poi
several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial places,,,,,
Eastham, Childer Thornton, Little Sutton, Overpool, Whitby
Stoke, Great Stanney, Stanlow, Ince, Thornton in the 310,°,
otherwise Thornton, Elton,. Hapsford, Frodsham, Sielau4
edsaibi Atchteofsalt.hde intended
ninth and Actte tenth ttho of tActe'
and Lordship of Frodsham, in the said county of Chester, 0'
for the completion of the works therein. -ce
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to redao
the Capital of the said Company, and to make regulations. of
regards the division thereof intoi Shares, and the payment
dividends or interest thereon.
tot And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to 4,
power to stop up, alter, or divert, whether temporarily or f.',6,
manently, all such turnpike and other roads and higln.cTrs
railways, tramways, aqueducts, canals, streams, and 11'4
within the aforesaid parishes, townships, and extra-paro7nv
or other places, or any of them, as it may be necessary to did
up alter, or divert, by reason of the construction of the '-
Railway and works, or any or either of them. fOr
And it is also intended by the said Act to take powers_d
the purchase, by compulsion or otherwise, of Lands 10,
Houses for the purposes of the said intended Railway and o).is,r
and to alter, vary, or extinguish all existing rights and l'itio
leges connected with such Lands and Houses, or which W1:00,
in any manner impede or interfere with the construei`l,e
maintenance, and use of the said intended Railway and Wo is,r
or any or either of them • and to confer other rights and ilrecl
leges ; and also to levy tolls, rates, and duties, for or in resfiter
of the use of the said intended Railway and works, and to i'.ol'
the tolls, rates, and duties at present leviable upon the Bitl'4l'
head, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway, and to Lof
fer such exemptions from the payment of such tolls, rates, '
duties, or any of them, as may be thought expedient. 5,
sfilpj
And NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN. that ,- oi,
Plans, and Sections of the said intended Railway and Works „50
of the Lands and Houses proposed to be taken for the purP",cl,
thereof, and also amended Sections of the Chester Bra net
shewing the levels thereof as proposed to be altered, tog the
with a Book of Reference to such plans containing 11,i5
names of the owners, lessees, and occupiers of such L° re'
and Houses, and describing such Lands and Houses day
spectively, and a copy of this Notice as published in the
Gazette will be deposited on or before the 30th day of `
.°t tae
ber, in the present year, with the Clerk of the Peace tor oil
county of Chester, at his office in Chester, and that a coPYOe el
much of the said Plans and Sections and Book of Referent (leo
relates to the several parishes in or through which the intend 0
Railway and Works and alterations of Section are proPO.,r tile
be made, and also a copy of this Notice,. as published
London Gazette, will, on or before the said 30th day of .i`.,°e's a'
ber, be deposited with the Parish Clerks of those pariacor‘
their respective places of abode (and as regards the estr•si, 0;
rochial place of Birkenhcad, with the Clerk of the Poo'.oo
Bidston, in the said county of Chester, immediately all.iol
to such extra-parochial place).
Dated the 4th day of November, 1848.
JOHN B. LLOYD, Solicitcr for the Vilrb
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