PETERSFIELD RAILWAY.—(Incorporation of Company for making a railway from the Mid-Sussex and Midhurst Junction Railway to Petersfield; Powers to the London and South-Western Railway Company to contribute to the undertaking; running powers over the Direct London and Portsmouth Railway, and to use their stations; working arrangements with the London and South-Western Railway Company, and Amendment of Acts.)
NOTICE is hereby given, that APPLICATION is intended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing Session for an ACT to incorporate a Company for making and maintaining the following line of railway, with all proper stations, works, and conveniences connected therewith (that is to say):—
A railway commencing by a junction with the authorised line of the Mid-Sussex and Midhurst Junction Railway in an enclosure marked No. 8 on the amended deposited plan of the said Mid-Sussex and Midhurst Junction Railway, 1859, in the parish of Easebourne, in the county of Sussex, and terminating by a junction with the Direct London and Portsmouth Railway at a point about thirteen chains to the south-westward of the point where the boundary between the parishes of Petersfield and Sheet crosses the said Direct London and Portsmouth Railway, in the Parish of Petersfield, in the county of Southampton, which said intended railway and works will pass in, through, or Into the several parishes, townships, extra-parochial and other places following, or some of them (that is to say)—Easebourne, Cocking, Woollavington, Midhurst, Bepton, Woolbeding, Stedham, Iping, Treyford, Trotton, Didling, Elstead, Linch, Chithurst, Rogate, Harting, and Tirwick, in the county of Sussex, and Buriton, Sheet, Petersfield, and Steep, in the county of Southampton.
And in the proposed act power will be taken for effecting the following purposes, or some of them (that is to say)—
To stop up, cross, or divert, temporarily or permanently, such turnpike or other roads and ways, railways, aqueducts, streams, drains, or sewers, as may be necessary for the construction of the said intended railway and works.
To purchase by compulsion or otherwise, lands and houses for the purposes of the said undertaking; to vary or extinguish rights or privileges connected with such lands and houses which may interfere with the construction of the said railway and works; to levy tolls, rates, and duties for the use thereof; and to confer, vary, or extinguish exemptions from the payment of such rates and duties.
To raise capital and to borrow money for the purposes of the said undertaking.
To empower the said intended company to run over, work, and use with their engines and carriages of every description, and for the purposes of their traffic, a certain portion or portions of the said Direct London and Portsmouth Railway, and the stations, roads, platforms, water engines, sidings, and works and conveniences connected therewith, upon such terms and conditions as may be settled by the Board of Trade, or by arbitration, or other-wise determined by the said intended act.
To provide for the direct and expeditious interchange, transmission, and accommodation of the traffic to, from, or over the said intended railway from, to, or over the railway of the said Direct London and Portsmouth Railway Company, upon such terms and conditions as may be determined as aforesaid.
To enable the company to be incorporated and the London and South-Western Railway Company to enter into contracts and arrangements for the construction, maintenance, working, and using by the last-mentioned company of the intended railway and works, and for the regulation, management, and transmission of the traffic thereon, and the supply and maintenance of engines, stock, and plant; also, for the collection, division, and appropriation of the tolls and profits arising therefrom, the payments and contributions to be made by either of such companies to the other of them, and the employment of officers and servants.
To authorise the said London and South-Western Railway Company to subscribe and contribute funds towards the construction and maintenance of the said intended railway and works, to take and hold shares in the said undertaking, and to apply any capital or funds belonging to them or under their control for the purposes aforesaid.
And it is intended, so far as may be necessary for effecting the aforesaid purposes, to repeal and amend the provisions, or some of them, of the several acts following, that is to say:—The local and personal acts relating to the Direct London and Portsmouth Railway, namely, 9 and 10 Vic., cap. 88; 10 and 11 Vic., cap. 187; the Portsmouth Railway Amendment Act, 1855; the Portsmouth Railway Amendment Act, 1857; the Portsmouth Railway Amendment Act,1858; and the London and South-Western Railway and Portsmouth Railway Amalgamation Act, 1859; and also the local and personal acts relating to the London and South-Western Railway Company, namely, 4 and 5 Will. IV., cap. 88; 1 Vic., cap. 71; 1 and 2 Vic., cap. 27; 2 and 3 Vic., cap. 28; 4 and 5 Vic., cap.1 and 39; 7 and 8 Vic. caps. 5, 63, and 86; 8and 9 Vic., caps. 86, 88, 93, 107, 121, 165, 185, and 199; 9 and 10 Vic., caps. 129, 131, 173, 174, 175, 252, 355, 370, and 391; 10 and 11 Vic., caps. 57, 58, 88, 96, 97, 115, 145, 167, 243, 244, 249, 273, and 297; 11 and 12 Vic, caps. 75, 85, 87, 89, 125, and 157; 51 Geo, III., cap. 196; 12 and 13 Vic., caps. 33 and 34; 13 and 14 Vic., cap. 24; 14 and 15 Vic., caps. 83; 16 and 17 Vic., caps. 90 and 164; 17 and 18 Vic., caps 186 and 208; 18 and 19 Vic., caps. 107 and 188; 19 and 20 Vic., cap. 120; 20 and 21 Vic., caps. 18, 72, 121, and 136; and 21 and 22 Vic., cops. 58, 67, 89, and 101; and 22 and 23 Vic., caps. 31, 44, and 95.
To incorporate with the said act the powers and provisions of the Companies’s Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845; the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845; and the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, or such portions thereof as may be necessary.
And notice is hereby further given, that duplicate plans and sections of the said intended railway and works, and of the lands and houses to to be taken for the purposes thereof, with a book of reference thereto, containing the names of the reputed owners, lessees, and occupiers of the said lands and houses, with a published map showing the general course and direction of the said railway, and a copy of this notice as published in the ‟London Gazette,” will, on or before the 30th day of November instant, be deposited with the clerk of the peace of the county of Sussex, at his office, in the town of Lewes, and with the clerk of the peace of the county of Southampton, at his office, at Winchester, in the said county; and that on or before the said 30th day of November, copies of so much of the said plans, sections, and books of reference as relates to each parish in or through which the said railway and works will be made, with a copy of the said ‟Gazette” notice, will be deposited with the parish clerk of each such parish, at his place of abode; and in the case of any extra-parochial place, with the parish clerk of some parish immediately adjoining there-to, at his place of abode.
And on or before the 23d day of December next, printed copies of the said intended act will be deposited in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons.
Dated, this 9th day of November, 1859.
HENRY CARNSEW, Solicitor, 41, Parliament-utreet, Westminster,
HOLMES and CO., Parliamentary Agents, Abingdon-street, Westminster.