The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-28 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL DOCKS.

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

MOTICE IS HEREBY tit vEN, that applipotion
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
any of the Acts of Parliament hereinafter mentioned, relating
to the Docks and Harbour of Liverpool, to certain other Trus-
tees or persons to be nominated, appointed, or constituted in
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
the said Trustees or persons so to be nominated, appointed, or
constituted, all such rights and privileges as may be necessary
or expedient in that behalf.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act or Acts to
extinguish the present rights, powers, and privileges as a
body politic and corporate, and as well in any elective capacity
as otherwise, of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses, and of
the Mayor, Aldermen, Bailiffs, and Common Council, and of
the Council of the Borough of Liverpool, or of such and so
many of the body or bodies respectively so named or designated
in any of the 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 by
virtue of the said Acts relating to the Docks and Harbour of
Liverpool, and of the Act to provide for the regulation of
Municipal Corporations in England and Wales, in the Trustees
or persons who shall, by the said intended Act or Acts be
nominated, appointed, or constituted a body politic and cor-
porate, by the name and style of "The Trustees of the Liver-
pool Docks."
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act or Acts to
alter, vary, enlarge and extend the powers and authorities re-
lating to the election of the Committee for the Affairs of the
estate of the Trustees of the Liverpool Docks, and of the
Chairman and Deputy Chairman of such Committee, and as
to their continuance in office respectively, and also to en-
large, extend, alter or vary the powers and authorities now
vested in such Committee, and to make various other pro-
visions relative thereto.

And it is also proposed by the said intended Act or Acts to
alter, amend, extend, enlarge, vary, and explain or repeal the
powers and provisions of the said Acts relating to the Docks
and Harbour of Liverpool, or some of them, and the orderin
and government of the same Docks, and other Works contained in the Acts relating to the Docks and Harbour of Liverpool, passed
in the Eighth vpnr of d-s_. .

Juisiltu year or me reign of Queen Anne, the Thfid year
of the reign of King George the First, the Eleventh year of the
reign of King George the Second,theSecond,Twenty- fifth, Thirty-
ninth, Fifty-first, Fifty- third, and Fifty-ninth years of the
reign of King George the Tnird respectively; the Sixth and
Ninth years of the reign of King George the Fourth respect-
tively ; the Session held in the Eleventh year of the last
mentioned reign, and the First year of the reign of King
William the Fourth, and in the lourth 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, and in the Eighth year of the reign of Her
present Majesty, and in the Session held in the Ninth and
Tenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, and in the
Eleventh year of the reign of Her present Majesty, and also,
if necessary, such of the provisions of the said Act for the
regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales
as relate to the Trustees of the Liverpool Docks, end for
takin all such further and other powers and authorities as
may %e necessary and expedient for effecting the purposes
aforesaid.

JOHN NORTH, Solicitor for the Bill
Liverpool, 13th November, 1848.

BIRKENHEAD, LANCASHIRu, AND CHESHIRE

JUNCTION RAILWAY

ABANDONMENT OF PART OF LINE, EXTENSION TO LONDON
AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY, ALTERATION OF LEVELS
OF CHESTER BRANCH, AND OF MODE OF CROSSING CAN-
NING-STREET, IN BIRKENHEAD, EXTENSION OF TIME FOR
PURCHASE OF LANDS, ALTERATION OF TOLLS, AND DE-
CREASE OF CAPITAL AND AMENDMENT OF ACTS.)

VOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is
11 intended to be made to Parliament, in the ensuing ses-
sion, for an Act to alter, amend, extend, and enlarge, and to
repeal some of the powers, restrictions, and provisions of the
several Acts relating to the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Che-
shire Junction Railway, (that is to sayd local and personal,
first Victoria, chapter 107, third Victoria, chapter 2, eighth
and ninth Victoria, chapter 992 ninth and tenth Victoria,
chapter 91, tenth and eleventh Victoria, chapters 222 and 223 ;
and to authorise the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire
Junction Railway Company to abandon the formation of so
much of the Main Line of the Railway, authorised to be made
by the said Act of the ninth and tenth of Victoria, as
lies between a point situate in a field, numbered 115, in the
township of Norton and parish of Runcorn, in the county of
Chester, on the plans of the said Railway referred to in the said
of and the termination of the said Main Line in the township
Heaton Norris, in the parish of Manchester,, in the county of Lancaster, and also to abandon the formation of the Branch Rail-
way authorised by the said Act, commencing in the township of
Altrincham and parish of Bowden, and terminating by a Junc-
tion with the Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Rail-

Of Thnperley and parish of Bowden, all is
tWhielYtifilldToeUrrl°iWnY osPcilliester, being the Railway in the said Act
of the ninth and tenth of Victoria, secondly described ; and also
to abandon the formation of the Branch Railway authorised by
the said Act, commencing in the town of Warrington, and ter-
minating by a Junction with the Grand Junction Railway, in
the township and parish of Warrington, all in the county of
Lancaster, being the Railway in the said Act of the ninth and
tenth of Victoria lastly described.

And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to enable
the said Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Rail-
way Company to make a Railway to commence by a Junction
with the said main line of their Railway in the said field num-
bered 115 in the said township of Norton and parish of Run-
corn, and thence passing from, in, through, or into the several
parishes, townships, and extra-parochial places of Kekewick,
Norton, and Runcorn, and to terminate by a Junction with the
line of the London and North Western Railway at or near
Kekewick, in the township of Kekewick and parish of Runcorn,
all in the said county of Chester.

And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to enable the
said Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Company. to alter the levels of so much of the Chester Branch
of the said Railway as authorised by thesaid Act of the tenth and eleventh Victoria, chapter 223, as lies between afield numbered 73
in the township of Hoole_ and na,•io, ~c

pansa or naint John the B,
on the plans of the said branch referred to in the the saidaptist last-
mentioned Act, and a field numbered 43,in the township of Hels-
try and parish of Frodsham, on the said plans, which portion of
Railway will pass from, in, through, or into the several parishes,
townships, and extra-parochial places of Saint John the Baptist,
Boole, Saint Oswald, Great Boughton, Plemstall, otherwise
Plemondstall, Guilden Sutton, Stickle Trafford, Barrow, Bridge
Trafford, Thornton, otherwise Thornton-in-the-Moors,
in the
Frodsham, and Helsby, all the
said county of Chester.

And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to enable
the said Company to alter the mode of carrying the Railway au-
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99, across a certain road in the extra-parochial chapeiry or town-
ship of Birkenhead, in the said county of Chester, known as
the Corporation-road or Canning-street, so as to carry the said
road across the said Railway lima, _

uvun (Ate ievel tnereot instead of
by means of a bridge, and for such purpose to alter the existing
level of the said road, within the said extra-parochial chapelry
or township of Birkenhead.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to extend
the time granted by the said Act of the ninth and tenth of Vic-
toria, for the compulsory purchase of lands and houses within the
several parishes. townsh; .ns. nnrl Pvtrn_r,ornf.l,;.l -

cAult-aroculal places of
Fastham, Childer Thornton, Little Sutton,p Overpool, Whitby,
Stoke, Great Stanney, Stanlow, Ince, Thornton in the Moors
otherwise Thornton, Elton, Hapsford, Frodsham, Helsby,
and Lordship of Frodsham, in the said county of Chester, and
for the completion of the works therein.

And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to reduce
the Capital of the said Company, and to make regulations as
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dividends or interest thereon

And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to take
power to stop up, alter, or divert, whether temporarily or per-
manently, all such turnpike and other roads and highways,
railways, tramways, aqueducts, canals, streams, and rivers,
within the aforesaid parishes, townships, and extra-parochia)
or other places - any of them, as it may he necessary to -'

ca or stop
up alter, or divert, by reason of the construction oe the said
Railway and works, or any or either of them.

And it is also intended by the said Act to take powers for
the purchase, by compulsion or otherwise, of Lands and
Houses for the purposes of the said intended Railway and works.
and to alter, vary, or extinguish all existing rights and privi-
leges connected with such Lands and Houses, or which would
in any manner impede or interfere with the construction,
maintenance, and use of the said intended Railway and works,
or any or either of them ; and to confer other rights and privi-
leges ; and also to levy tolls, rates? and duties, for or in respect
of the use of the said intended Railway and works, and to alter
the tolls, rates, and duties at present leviable upon the Birken-
head, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway, and to con-
fer such exemptions from the payment of such tolls, rates, and
duties, or any of them, as may be thought expedient.
And NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN. that Maps,
Plana, and Sections of the said intended Railway and Works, and
of the Lands and Houses proposed to be taken for the purposes
thereof, and also amended Sections of the Chester Branch,
shewing the levels thereof as proposed to be altered, together
with a Book of Reference to such plans containing the
names of the owners, lessees, and occupiers of such Lands
and Houses, and describing such Lands and Houses re-
spectively, and a copy of this Notice as published in the London
Gazette will be deposited on or before the 30th day of Novem-
ber, in the present year, with the Clerk of the Peace for the
county of Chester, at his office in Chester, and that a copy of so
much of the said Plans and Sections and Book of Reference as
relates to the several parishes in or through which the intended
Railway and Works and alterations of Section are proposed to
be made, and also a copy of this Notice, as published in the
London Gazette, will, on or before the said 30th day of Novem-
ber? be deposited with the Parish Clerks of those parishes gt
their respective places of abode (and as regards the extra-pa-
rochial place of Birkenhead, with the Clerk of the Parish of
Bidston, in the said county of Chester, immediately adjoining
to such extra-parochial niece).
Dated the 4th day p4November, um.

JOHN B. LWWJ

Solicitor for the Bill.