The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-31 00:00:00

IVOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is
./.11 intended to be made to Parliament in next Session,
for leave to bring in a BILL to alter, amend, repeal, ex-
plain, enlarge, revive, or continue some of the powers or
provisions of an Aet passed in the 7th year of his Majesty
King William the IVth, entituled "An Act for making
and maintaining a Railway or Railways from the City of
Edinburgh to Leith, and to the shore of the Frith of
Forth, at or near Newhaven and Trinity, all in the County
of Edinburgh," and of another Act passed in the 3d year
of the reign of her present Majesty, entituled "An Act to
alter, amend, and enlarge the powers and provision: of the
said Act passed in the 7th year of the reign of his Majesty
King William the IVth, c. 131, and to alter and vary the
lines and levels of the Railway thereby authorised to be
made, and for other purposes relating to the said under-
taking :"—And it is intended to take power in.the said
Bill to make and maintain a Branch Railway, with all
proper works and conveniences connected therewith, from
the Main Line of the said Railway to or near to the pier
erected by his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch and Queens-
berry at Granton ; and another Branch Railway, with all
proper works and conveniences connected therewith, from
the Main Line of the said Railway to or near to the Wet
Docks at North Leith : which intended first mentioned
Branch Railway and works will be situate in, and will pass
from, in, through, or into the following Parishes or parts
of Parishes, viz.,lNorth Leith, St. Cuthhett'a, Cramond,
Newhaven, quoad sacra, and St. Bernard's, quoad sacra,
all in the County of Edinburgh, or some of them; and
the second mentioned Branch Railway and works will be
situate in, and will pass from, in, through, or into the
following Parishes, or parts of Parishes, and places, viz.,
the Parish of St. Cuthbert's, the Town and Parish of
North Leith, and the said quoad sacra Pariah of New-
haven, all in the said County, or some of them :—And it
is further intended to take power in the said Bill to deviate
the lines of the said Branches and works to any extent not
exceeding the limits of deviation delineated on the Maps
or Plans thereof, to be deposited as after-mentioned :
And it is also intended to obtain power for the compulsory
purchase of lands and houses, and to levy tolls, rates, and
duties on and for the use of the said intended Branch
Railways, and other works and conveniences connected
therewith ; and to vary or extinguish all rights and privi-
leges in any manner connected with the lands and houses
proposed to be taken for the said purposes ; and to alter,
if necessary, the tolls, rates, and duties authorised to be
levied by the said recited Acts, or either of them, on, and
for the use of, the said Railway thereby authorised to be
made, and works connected therewith ; and to confer,
vary, and extinguish certain exemptions from payment of
tolls, rates, or duties, and certain other rights and privi-
leges :—And it is further intended to obtain powers for
diverting the turnpike road leading from Edinburgh by
Trinity to the said pier at Granton, in the said Parishes of
North Leith, St. Cuthbert's, and Cramond, and quoad
sacra Parishes of Newhaven and St. Bernard's, or some
of them, and that to such an extent as will be shown on
the plans to be deposited as herein after-mentioned :—And
it is also intended in the said Bill to take power to raise
money for the formation of the said Branch Railways and
works, and for the general purposes of the said undertak-
ing, by the creation of Shares, or otherwise :—And Notice
is further given, That, on or before the thirtieth day of
November next, Maps, or Plans and Sections, describing
the line or situation and levels of the said Branch Railways
and works, and the lands, houses, and others, to be taken
and used, for the purpose thereof, together with Books of
Reference to such plans, containing the names of the
owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and
occupiers of such lands, and others, will be deposited, for
public inspection, in the office in Edinburgh of the Prin.
cipal Sheriff-Clerk for the County of Edinburgh ; and
that, on or before the 31st day of December next, a copy
of so much of the said Maps, or Plans, Sections, and
Books of Reference, as relates to each parish in which the
lands and others to be taken or used, for the purposes
aforesaid, are situate, will be deposited, for public inspec-
tion, with the Schoolmaster, if any, and if there is no
Schoolmaster, then with the Session-Clerk of each of the
said parishes, through which the said Branch Railways are
respectively intended to be made, at the respective places
of abode of the said Schoolmasters, or Session-Clerks.
Dated at Edinburgh, the 20th day of October, 1843.
J. BURNS, Agent.
GRAHAM, MONCRIEFF, and WEEMS,
Great George-street, Westminster,
Parliamentary Agents.