The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-10 00:00:00

nE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

for amalgamating the said two Companies on certain terms,
having been read, and it further appearing that powers ttee
given for the said two Companies respectively, by their refsOec-
tive Acts of Incorporation, to amalgamate and unite for the
purpose of making the Railway authorized by the Act Incorpo-
rating the Shrewsbury and B.irmingham Conwaoy, to be made

between Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton, and also so much of

the Itailwayauthorized by the Act Incorporating this Company
as lies between a certain road in the parish of Tettenhall and
the town of Wolverhampton,
Proposed by JOHN SWIFT, Esq., seconded by EDWARD
BULLER, Esq.,
Resolved,
That the said agreement be and the same is now accordingly
adopted, ratified, and confirmed.
That for giving effect to the said agreement and, in pursuance
of the powers so given by the said acts respectively, this Com-
pany doth hereby agree to amalgamate and form one Company
with the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Company, for
the purposes in the said Acts or any of them mentioned.
That notice be forthwith given to the Shrewsbury and Bir-
mingham Railway Company of the above resolution, and that
this Company agrees to amalgamate and unite with the said
first mentioned Company, according to the powers and provi-
sions in that behalf of the several Acts of Incorporation.
That the Directors have and they are now invested with the
fullest powers for effecting the objects and purposes aforesaid,
and that with that view they he and are now authorized for and
on behalf of this Company, and in their name or otherwise, to
concur in or become party to, and execute and affix the Com-
pany's Seal to, all necessary and proper acts whatsoever in
their discretion.
That the Report be circulated amongst the Proprietors forth-
with, and advertised in the local papers and in the railway
papers

G. B. THORNEYCROFT, Chairman
JAMES WHITNEY, Secretary.

MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND MIDLAND
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
AT a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the
shareholders of the MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, and
MIDLAND JUNCTION RAILWAY, held at the Cutlers' Hall,
in Sheffield, on THURSDAY, the 29th day of October, 1846,
WILSON OVEREND, Esq. in the Chair.
The Notice convening the Meeting, the Report of the I'rovi-
sional Directors, and the Abstract of the Accounts, having Feel'
read by Mr. Pierson, one of the Solicitors of the Company,
It was unanimously Resolved,
I.—That the Report of the Provisional Directors now read,

with the Statement of Accounts annexed, be received am
adopted, and thR th7ir Rroceedings be approved andconfirmed

'That this Meeting*: hereby authorises and empowers the

sary for obtaining an Act of Parliament, authOrising the con
struction of the proposed Lines of Railway, during the ensuim
Session; and also to enter into such negociations or arrange

expedient, with a view of protecting and promoting the inter
esti; of the Shareholders of the undertaking.
3.--Tnut tne Pro.-istousi nirectoffare hereby fully empoWeeed
to pay to any Shareholder who may decline to join in the re-
newal of the Application to Parliament, in conformity with the

recornmendatiOn contained in the Directors' Report, previously
read, the Sum of Two Pounds and Ten Shillings per Share on
all Shares held by such Shareholder in the Manchester, Shef-
field, and Midland Junction Railway ; and any further sum
which, after the final settlement of all Accounts, may hereafter
become payable to such Shareholder : the Scrip for such Shares
being sent in on or before the 14th day of November instant.
4.—That the Directors are hereby authorised to dispose of the
Shares which may be renounced by parties withdrawing from
the further prosecution of the undertaking, in such manner as
they may consider most conducive to the interests of the Com-
pany. • • • —• _

s.:—That the Report of the Provisional Directors, the state-
ment of Accounts, and the Resolutions of this Meeting, be
printed and addressed to the Shareholders.
6.—That the best than.is of this Meeting are due, and are
hereby given, to the Directors for their past services.
WILSON OVEREND, Chairman.
The Chairman having vacated the Chair,