CHICHESTER and MIDHURST RAILWAY.

     (Incorporation of Company for making Railways from Chichester to Midhurst-Powers to London, Brighton. and South Coast, London and South-Western, Mid-Sussex, and Mid-Sussex and Midhurst Junction Railway Companies—Running Powers over adjacent Undertakings—Amendment of Acts).

     NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, that APPLICATION is intended to be made to PARLIAMENT in the ensuing Session for leave to bring in a BILL to incorporate a company (hereinafter called ‟the company,”) for making and maintaining, in the county of Sussex, the railways hereinafter described, or one of them, together with all necessary stations, approaches, communications, junctions, and other works and conveniences (that is to say) :—

     A railway (hereinafter referred to as railway No. 1) commencing in the parish of Saint Bartholomew, Chichester, by a junction with the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, at or near a point 396 yards or thereabouts west of the door of the booking office of the station in Chichester of the last-mentioned railway, and terminating in the parish of Cocking by a junction or junctions with the Mid-Sussex and Midhurst Junction Railway, in or near a field or inclosure numbered 7 on the plan deposited with the clerk of the peace for the said county of Sussex, with reference to the Mid-Sussex and Midhurst Junction Railway Deviation Act, ‟Additional Provisions,” 1860.

     A railway (hereinafter referred to as railway No. 2) commencing in the parish of Woolavington by a junction with railway No. 1, in or near a field numbered 10 on the said deposited plan, and terminating by a junction or junctions with the authorised line of the Petersfield and Midhurst branch (late Petersfield Railway) of the London and South-Western Railway Company, in the parish of Midhurst, 200 yards or thereabouts westward of the point where the road leading from Midhurst to Bepton will cross the said last-mentioned authorised line.

     Railway No. 1 will pass through or into the several parishes and places following, or some of them—that is to say, Saint Pancras, Chichester; Saint Bartholomew, Chichester; Saint Peter the Great, otherwise the Subdeanery, Chichester; Saint Paul, Chichester; New Fishbourne, West Stoke, Mid Lavant, East Lavant, West Lavant, Binderton, West Dean, Singleton, Heyshot, Cocking, Bepton, Woolavington, and Midhurst; and railway No. 2 will pass through or into the said parishes of Woolavington, Cocking, and Midhurst.

     And it is intended by the bill to confer upon the company the following, or some of the following, among other powers:—

     To make lateral deviations from the lines of the said intended railways and works to the extent and within the limits described upon the plans hereinafter mentioned.

     To cross, stop up, alter, or divert, whether temporarily or permanently, all such roads, streets, railways, tramways, aqueducts, canals, towing-paths, streams, drains, pipes, rivers, navigations, and other works, as it may be necessary to cross, stop up, alter, or divert in the construction of the said railways and works.

     To purchase, by compulsion, or otherwise lands, houses, and hereditaments, for the purposes of the said intended railways and works, and to vary or extinguish all existing rights and privileges connected with such lands, houses, and hereditaments, or which would in any manner impede or interfere with the purposes of the bill, and to confer, vary, or extinguish other rights and privileges. 

     To levy tolls, rates, and charges for or in respect of the use of the said intended railways and works, and to alter, vary, or extinguish existing tolls, rates, and charges.

     To enable the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company, the London and South-Western Railway Company, the Mid-Sussex, and the Mid-Sussex and Midhurst Junction Railway Companies, or either of those companies, to subscribe towards the intended railways out of their corporate funds, and, if necessary, out of capital to be raised by them respectively under the powers of the bill, by shares or stock, and by loan, and with or without any preference or priority of dividend or interest; and to enable the said companies, or either of them, to guarantee the payment of interest or dividend upon the capital of the company, or any part thereof, and to appoint directors of the company.

     To enable the company, on the one hand, and the London Brighton and South Coast, the London and South-Western, the Mid-Sussex. and the Mid-Sussex and Midhurst Junction Railway Companies, or either of those companies, on the other hand, from time to time to enter into agreements with respect to the construction, maintenance, working and use of the said intended railways and works, or any or either of them, and the supply of rolling stock and machinery, and of officers and servants for the conduct of the traffic of the intended railways; the payments to be made and the conditions to be performed with respect to such maintenance, working and use, the interchange, accommodation and conveyance of traffic coming from or destined for the respective undertakings of the contracting companies, and the division and appropriation of the revenue arising from that traffic; and to authorise the appointment of joint committees for carrying into effect any such agreement as aforesaid, and to confirm any agreement already made, or which previously to the passing of the bill may be made, touching any of the matters aforesaid.

     To enable the company, and all companies and persons lawfully using the railways of the company, to run over and use with their engines and carriages of every description, and with their clerks,  officers and servants and upon such terms and conditions, and on payment of such tolls, rates, and charges as may be agreed upon, or be settled by arbitration, or defined by the bill, all or any part of the respective railways and undertakings hereinafter mentioned, together with the stations, watering-places, booking-offices, warehouses, landing-places, sidings, works and conveniences connected therewith, namely, the Mid-Sussex and the Mid-Sussex and Midhurst Junction lines of railway, and the Petersfield and Midhurst branch of the London and South-Western Railway Company.

     To require the companies or persons owning or working the said railways or undertakings respectively to receive, book through, forward, accommodate, and deliver on and from the same, and at the stations, warehouses, and booking-offices thereof, all traffic of whatever description coming from or destined for the undertaking of the company, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed  upon, or failing such agreement as shall be settled by arbitration, or as may he defined by the bill; and if need be to alter the tolls and charges which the said companies may respectively receive and take upon their respective undertakings, and to confer exemptions from such tolls and charges.

     The bill will incorporate with itself the necessary provisions of "The Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," "The Companies Clauses Act, 1863," "The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," "The Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts Amendment Act, 1860," "The Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and "The Railways Clauses Act, 1863 ;" and it will amend and enlarge the powers and provisions of "The Mid-Sussex Railway Act, 1857," "The Mid-Sussex and Midhurst Junction Railway Act, 1857," The Mid-Sussex and Midhurst Junction Railway Deviation Act, 1860," and "The Petersfield Railway Act, 1860," and  "The Petersfield Railway Deviation Act (Additional Provisions), 1860," and "The Petersfield Railway Deviation Act, 1861;" also of the following and of the several other acts relating to the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company, namely:—7 Wm. 4, and 1 Vict., c. 119; 7 and 8 Vict., c.67; 8 and 9 Vict, c, 199; 9 and 10 Vict., c. 283; and 10 and 11 Vict., c. 244. And also of the following and of the several other acts relating to the London and South-Western Railway Company, namely:—4 and 5 Wm. 4. c.88; 11 and 12 Vict., c.89; and the 26 and 27 Vict ,c. 90.

     And Notice is hereby further Given, that on or before the 30th day of November instant, maps, plans, and sections, showing the direction, line, and levels of the said intended railways and other works, and the lands which may be taken for the purposes of the same, together with a book of reference to such plans, containing the names of the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and of the occupiers of such lands, and also a copy of this notice as published in the "London Gazette," will be deposited for public inspection with the clerk of the peace for the county of Sussex, at his office at Lewes, in the said county; and that on or before the said 30th day of November a copy of so much of the said plans, sections, and book of reference as relates to each parish or extra-parochial place in or through which the said railways and other works are intended to be made, together with a copy of this notice, published as aforesaid, will be deposited for public inspection as follows (that is to say): in the car of parishes, with the parish clerk of each such parish at his residence; and in case of any extra-parochial place with the parish clerk of some parish immediately adjoining thereto, at his residence.

     Printed copies of the proposed bill will be deposited in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons, on or before the 23d day of December next.

     Dated this 9th day of November, 1863.

W. and H. P. SHARP,
92, Gresham House, Old Broad-street, London,
Solicitors for the intended Act.

DYSON and Co.,
24, Parliament-street, Westminster,
Parliamentary Agents.