PETERSFIELD AND BISHOP'S WALTHAM RAILWAY.
(INCORPORATION OF COMPANY FOR MAKING A RAILWAY FROM PETERSFIELD TO BISHOP'S WALTHAM; TRAFFIC AND OTHER ARRANGEMENTS WITH LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY; POWER TO THAT COMPANY TO SUBSCRIBE; AMENDMENTS OF ACTS; AND OTHER PURPOSES.)
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 Railway following, or some part or parts thereof, with all proper works and conveniences connected therewith, and approaches thereto respectively, that is to say, —
A Railway commencing in the Parish of Bishop's Waltham, in the County of Southampton, by a Junction with the Bishop's Waltham Railway at or near the termination thereof, and terminating in the Parish of Buriton, in the same County, by a Junction with the Portsmouth Railway of the London and South-Western Railway Company, at a point thereon fifty-five chains or thereabouts south of the Petersfield Station thereon, and fourteen chains or thereabouts south of Borough Farm-house, and which said intended Railway and works will pass from, in, through, or into, or be situate within the Parishes, extra-parochial, or other places following, or some of them, that is to say,— Bishop's Waltham, Droxford, Meon Stoke, Exton, West Meon, East Meon, Buriton, and Petersfield, or some of them, all in the County of Southampton.
And it is proposed by the intended Act to empower the Company to be thereby incorporated to purchase by compulsion and by agreement lands, houses, or hereditaments, for the purposes of the proposed Railway and works, and to alter, vary, or extinguish all existing rights and privileges connected with such lands, houses, and hereditaments, or which would in any manner interfere with the construction, maintenance, and use of the said proposed Railway and works, or any part or parts thereof, and to confer other rights and privileges.
And it is intended by such Act to take power to stop up, cross, divert, or alter, either temporarily or permanently, any Turnpike or other roads, streets, highways, bridges, footpaths, ways, and rights of way, railways, tramways, canals, aqueducts, tunnels, rivers, navigations, streams, bridges, pipes, sewers, drains, and watercourses, within the said parishes and extra-parochial or other places, or any of them, which it may be necessary to stop up, cross, divert, or alter for the purposes of the said intended Railway and works, or other the purposes of the said Act.
And it is proposed by the said intended Act to take powers for levying tolls, rates, and duties for or in respect of the use of the said proposed Railway and works, and the conveniences and accommodations connected therewith and to confer, vary, or extinguish exemptions from the payment of such tolls, rates, and duties respectively.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to enable the Company to be thereby incorporated, and the London and South-Western Railway Company to enter into and carry into effect any arrangements or agreements with respect to the working, use, management and maintenance of the said intended Railway and works, or any part or parts thereof, and to the payment and contribution by the said Companies, towards the costs, charges, and expenses of such working, use, management, and maintenance, and with respect to the regulation, management, and transmission of the traffic upon the said intended Railways or either of them, and upon the Railway of the London and South-Western Railway Company, and the collection, payment, division, apportionment, appropriation, and distribution of the tolls, rates, and charges, arising from such respective traffic.
And it is also proposed by the intended Act to empower the London and South-Western Railway Company, and the Bishop's Waltham Railway Company, or one of them, to subscribe or contribute funds towards the construction and maintenance of the said intended Railway and works, or any part or parts thereof, and to guarantee such interest, dividends, annual or other payments in respect of the monies expended in the construction thereof, as may be agreed upon by the said Companies respectively, or any of them, and to take and hold shares in the capital of the Company, and to apply to the purposes aforesaid, or any of them, any capital or funds now or hereafter belonging to them, or under the control of their respective Directors and if they shall think fit to raise additional monies for that purpose by the creation of new shares in their respective undertakings, with or without preference or priority or other rights or privileges, or by mortgage or bond, or by both those means, or by such other means as Parliament shall authorise and direct.
And it is proposed by the intended Act to enable the Company to be thereby incorporated and the London and South-Western Railway Company and the Bishop's Waltham Railway Company, or one of them, to make, enter into, and carry into effect contracts and agreements in reference to all or any of the matters aforesaid, and to confirm and ratify any contracts or agreements already entered into with reference thereto.
And it is proposed by the said intended Act, so far as may be necessary for the purposes aforesaid, to alter, amend, enlarge, or repeal the powers and provisions of the Acts following, or some or one of them, relating to the London and South-Western Railway Company, viz.: — 4 and 5 Wm. 4, cap. 88; 1 Vic, cap. 71; 1 and 2 Vic, cap. 27; 2 and 3 Vic, cap. 28; 4 and 5 Vic, caps. 1 and 39; 7 and 8 Vic, caps. 5, 63, and 86; 8 and 9 Vic, caps. 86, 88, 93, 107, 121, 165, 185, and 199; 9 and 10 Vic, caps. 129, 131, 173, 174, 175, 252, 255, 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. 3rd, cap. 196; 12 and 13 Vic, caps. 33 and 34; 13 and 14 Vic, cap. 24; 14 and 15 Vic, cap. 83; 16 and 17 Vic, caps. 199 and 164; 17 and 18 Vic, caps. 186 and 208; 18 and l9 Vic, caps. 177 and 188; 19 and 20 Vic, cap. 120; 20 and 21 Vic, caps. 18, 24, 72. 121, and 136; 21 and 22 Vic, caps. 56, 59, 67, 89, and 101; 22 Vic, cap. 3; 22 and 23 Vic, caps. 31, 44, 81, 95, and 134; 23 and 24 Vic, caps. 92, 193, and 185; 24 and 25 Vic, caps. 15, 111, 190, 220, and 224; 25 and 26 Vic, cap. 42; 26 and 27 Vic. caps. 90 and 109, and any other Act or Acts relating directly or indirectly to or affecting the London and South-Western Railway Company, also the Bishop's Waltham Railway Act, 1862, and the Bishop's Waltham Railway Act, 1863.
And Notice is hereby further given, that on or before the 30th day of November instant plans and sections of the proposed Railway and works and a book of reference to such plans, together with a published map with the line of the proposed Railway delineated thereon, and 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 Southampton, at his office in Winchester, 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 intended Railway and works will be made, or in which any lands or houses intended to be compulsorily taken are situate, and a copy of this notice, as publishei in the London Gazette, will be deposited for public inspection in the case of each such parish with the Parish Clerk thereof, at his residence, and in the case of each such extra-parochial place with the Parish Clerk of some parish immediately adjoining thereto, at his residence; and that on or before the 23rd day of December next printed copies of the proposed Bill will be deposited in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons.
Dated this 9th day of November, 1863.
W. GASCOIGNE ROY,
28, Great George-street, Westminster,
Solicitor for the Bill.