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pipes,'strea.Ms, and risers, «ithiil the t'oresaid
parishes, townships, and places, or any of them, which it may
be necessary so to stop up, alter, or divert, by reason of the
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Wolverhampton, 3d September, 1846.
The Committee meet the Proprietors on the present occasion
with much satisfaction, since they are enabled to report the at-
tainment of that which was the orieinal nhiert of th.

tion of the Company, namely, the-passini in ihesessiOnit7st
ended of an Act of Parliament which authorizes the construc-
tion of a Railway from Shrewsbury to Wolverhampton. As
doubtless most of the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South
Staffordshire Junction Proprietors are aware, they were not the
only parties seeking to obtain that object. An influential body
known as the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Company also in-
troduced a hill into Parliament, which, if it had been passed in
its original form, would have authorized a line (to the exclusion
of this Company's) between Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton,
thnnvh nnlv As a nnrt of n more extended nntlertnicin.f......, es..:

former town to Birmingham. Since the two lines as between
Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton were and necessarily must be
substantially identical in point of route, it has all along been
the desire of your Committee to bring about an amalgamation
with the other Company for the attainment of the object thus
clearly common to both—leaving the extension line from Wol-
verhampton to Birmingham open to be made by other parties
who might be so inclined. But the Shrewsbury and Birming-
ham Company, it is understood, experienced great difficulty,
owing to alliances which they had formed, in agreeing to such
an amalgamation, until the period at which it was ultimately
decided upon, namely, whilst both bills were pending in the
committee of the House of Commons, when arrangementswere
made satisfactory to all concerned. The following is a copy of
the short Memorandum of Agreement signed by the counsel of
the respective companies, and will, it is believed, be at once
intelligible to the local proprietors, though to others it may be
necessary to state that the main difference between the two
lines, as between Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton, was, that
whilst your line was laid down on a low level at Wolverhamp-
ton, the Shrewsbury and Birmingham was on a high level.

COFY OF MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT :
Shrewsbury and Birmingham and Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton,
and South Staffordshire Junction B,ailways.

NoREED,

That if the committee adopt the low level, then the Shrews-
bury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire line is to be
taken.

That if the committee adopt the high level, then the Shrews-
bury and Birmingham line is to be taken.
That if both levels at Wolverhampton be adopted, then the
Shrewsbury and Birmingham line to be taken, and a fork
made out of it to the low level station, at a gradient of 1 in
. 129.

In any event the two Companies to be amalgamated as be-
tween Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton, each taking half
of the capital ; the Shrewsbury and Birmingham two-thirds,
and the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Stailbrd-
shire one-third of the direction.

Each party to pay their own costs up to this time ; all future
costs to be debited to the joint account.
. .

All disputes to be settled by Mr. Hope and Mr. Cocicbmi,.
with liberty, in ease of disagreement, to- call in it.thfrwl
party.

Signed) N. E COCKBURN,
For the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and
South Staffordshire Company.
JAMES it. HOPE,
For the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Company
Committee Room, No. 26, House of Commons,
June 30, 1846.

This agreement was confirmed by the separate Acts subse-
quently obtained by this Company and by the Shrewsbury and
Birmingham Company, and they contain the requisite provi-
sions for carrying it into effect. Those provisions will be read
at length if any proprietor desires it, and therefore your Com-
mittee will not attempt any other epitome of them than the
very general one just given. There cannot in the opinion of
your Committee be the slightest doubt of the policy or pro-
priety, either in a public or private point of view, of your de-
ciding on the present occasion to avail yourselves of the
option secured to you by the Acts of Parliament of amalgamat-
ing with the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Company, and tak
ing (in your due proportion) .4'500,000, being half the total
capital authorized to be raised for the Shrewsbury and 'Wolver-
hampton line, with the nomination of one-third of the future
Directors of the amalgamated company, and your Committee
unanimously recommend to you this course. If this be your
decision, it will be necessary for you at this meeting to resolve
formally that the number of Directors shall be nine, next to
name those nine, and then to resolve also that you agree to the
amalgamation on the terms of the Act of Parliament. Your
Committee will take the needful steps for carrying out the de-
tails of the arrangement, (some of which remain yet for more
mature consideration,) but would not omit the present oppor-
tunity of stating, for the information of every proprietor, and
calling his special attention to this fact, that he forfeits all in-
terestn the undertaking if he fails to signify his acceptance of
the new shares (which will have to be offered to him in exchange
for his present scrip) within the period and in the manlier
which bill be stated in a notice and circular which will be is-
sued in a week or ten days from this time, and wherein the
share arrangements will be minutely detailed.
There has not yet been time to obtain a full and accurate
statement of the accounts of the company up to this date, but
it will be the immediate duty of the nine gentlemen to hom
you may this day entrust the future management of your af-
fairs, to get in all the outstanding bills, and ascertain the exact
amount of expenditure as speedily as possible. In conclusion,
your Committee desire to express their unabated confidence in

the soundness ant
also th

promising character of the undertaking, and
rent personal gratification they will receive if it shall
he the pleasure of this meeting, to elect that the undertaking
shall be henceforward promoted by means of the joint funds,
and with the united energies of the Shrewsbury and Birming-

his able an(
Offices, 103

ii'orfolk-street, Sheffield.

MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND MIDLAND

JUNCTION RAILWAY.
THE PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS of the above
Railway are desirous of transmitting a Copy of the Pro,
ceedings of the Special Meeting of Shareholders, held Tu is DAY,
(Thursday,) at the Cutlers' Hall, in Sheffield, to all parties who
may hold Shares in that Undertaking ; and as•there are neces-

sarily many parties with whose Addresses they are unacquaint-
ed, they request all Shareholders who may not receive a Copy
of the Proceedings of the Meeting above alluded to, to apply at
the COMPANY'S OFFICES,IO3, NORFOLK-STREET, SHEFFIELD,
when the same will be immediately transmitted to them, with
forms whereby they may signify their intention of pr( ' •
the Undertaking, or otherwise.
By order, RICHARD MIRFIN, Secretary
103, Norfolk-street, Sheffield, October 29, 1546

BIRKENHEAD, LANCASHIRE, AND CHESHIRE
JUNCTION RAILWAY,
AND
CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY
PURCHASE OR AMALGAMATION.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Application is
intended to be made to Parliament, in the next Session

for an Act or Acts of Parliament, to alter, amend, explain, en-
large, and render more effectual, or to repeal some of the
powers and provisions of "The Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction Railway Act, 1846," and of the several Acts
relating to the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, passed re-
spectively in the seventh year of His late Majesty King William
the Fourth and the first of the reign of Her present Majesty,
and in the third and fourth, and the eighth and niu.h years of
the reign of Her present Majesty.
And further Notice is hereby given, that it is intended by
the said Act or Acts, or some or one of them, to enable the
Chester and Birkenhead Railway Company to demise and lease
for a term of years, or in perpetuity, or otherwise, to sell, dis-
pose of, and absolutely make over to the said Birkenhead, Lan-
.• •• •-•

Clishire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Company, the Chester
and Birkenhead Railway and Works, or any of them, or any
part thereof, and all or any of the Property and Effects of the
said Company, and all or any of the powers, rights, and privi-
leges belonging to the said Chester and Birkenhead Railway
Company in connection therewith, or in relation thereunto,
and to enable the said Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire
Junction Railway Company to accept and take such lease, and
to purchase, accept, and enjoy the same Railway and Works
and other Property and Effects, or any part thereof, and to
exercise such powers, rights, and privileges, or any or every of
them, and to amalgamate and consolidate the said Chester and
Birkenhead Railway with and into the said Birkenhead, Lan -
cashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway, and to disincorporate
and dissolve the said Chester and Birkenhead Railway Com-
pany,, and to alter and vary the rates, tolls, and duties at pre-
, •.4

ways respectively, and to enabie the said Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Company, or the said con-
Emulated Company, to levy and receive tile same or other rates,
tolls, and duties in or upon, and in resp7ct of, the said Chester
and Birkenhead Railway and their Works, and to confirm and
legalize all contracts and agreements adopted or approved of,
or acted upon by or between the said Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire Junction Railway Company and the Chester and
Birkenhead Railway Company, or, the Directors of either of the
said companies, and any other contracts or agreements white

may be niade and executed, or be adopted or approved of, or
acted upon, by or between the said Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction Railway Company and the Chester and Bir-
kenhead Railway Company, or the Directors of either of the
said Companies ; and to extend and make applicable to the
said Consolidated Company, and all the property, works, mat-
ters, and things belonging thereto, or connected therewith, all
or any of the powers and provisions of the said " Birkenhead,
Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Act, 1846."
And it is also intended by the said Act or Acts to enable the
London and North-Western Railway Company to raise funds,
and out of their Corporate or other funds to become interested
in the said lease or purchase, and to contribute to the purchase
of the said Chester and Birkenhead Railway and undertaking,
or to contribute or hold shares in the Company or undertaking'
to be formed by the amalgamation of the Chester and Birken-
head, and Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction
Railway Companies; and to enter into such contracts, ar-
rangements, and agreements with the said Birkenhead, Lan-
cashire, amiCheshire Junction Railway Company, and Chester
-1 Birkenhead Railway Company, or either of them, in refe-

rence to such purchase or aiiialiamation, as they shall deem
expedient, and as may be mutually agreed upon between the
said London and North-Western Railway Company, and Bir-
kenhead, Lancashire, and Chesltre Junction Railway Com-

pang}, and Chester and Birkenhead' Railway Company, respec-
tively; and for such purposes to alter, amend, extend, and
enlarge some of the powers and provisions of the several Acts
following relating to the London and North-Western Railway,
or some of them, (that is to say,)—Local and personal Act Bth

and 9tliV ictori a, chapter 156, Local and personal Acts 9th and 10th
Victoria, chapters 67, 80, 82, 132, 182, 184, 193, 204, 231, 232,
233, 214, 248, 231, 263, 309, 328, 331, 353, 368, 3(19. and 393.
Dated this Seventh day of November, One Thousand Eight
Hundred and Forty-Six.
LLOYD and WALN, n„,

:if any)

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