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The Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool Railway. Acts, to stop up, alter or divert, whether tempo- Registered provisionally pursuant to seventh and rarily or permanently, .within the several parishes, eighth Victoria, cap. 110. townships, and extra-parochial and other places OTICE is hereby given, that application is in- aforesaid, or some of them, all such railways, turn- N tended to be made to Parliament in the next pike roads, highways, rivers, canals and streams as session, for an Act or Acts to authorize the con- it may be necessary or expedient to stop up, alter struction and maintenance of a railway, with all or divert, for the construction and maintenance of proper works and conveniences, stations, and ap- the said intended railway, branches, and works, or proaches connected therewith, to commence at and any of them. by a junction with the Blackburn, Darvyen, and And further notice is hereby given, that it is. Bolton Railway, in the township of Blackburn, in proposed by the said intended Act or Acts, to the parish of Blackburn, in the county of Lancas- authorize the company thereby to be incorporated, ter, thence to pass froin, in, through, or into the to contribute towards the maki ng, maintaining, work- several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial, or ing, and using of the proposed Blackburn, Clithero, other places following, or some of them, that is to and North-Western Junction Railway, and to raise say, Blackburn, Lower Darwen, Livesey otherwise an additional capital for such purpose. Livesey with Rockholes, Pleasington, Sockholes, And further notice is hereby given, that plans Leyland, Witbnell, Wheelton, Heapey, Whittle le and sections describing the line and levels of the Woods, Brindle, Chorley, Duxbury, Worthington, said intended railway, branches, stations, ap- Charnock Richard, Coppull Standish, otherwise proaches, and works, and the lands proposed to be Standish with Langtree, Langtree, Shevington, taken for the purposes thereof, together with books Wigan, Orrell, Dalton, and Upholland, all in the of reference to such plans, containing the names of said county of Lancaster, and to terminate at and the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed by a junction with the Liverpool and Bury Rail- lessees, and occupiers of such lands, will be depo- way, in the township of TJpholland, in. the parish sited for public inspection, on or before the thirtieth of Wigan, in the said county of Lancaster, and also day of November instant, with the clerk of the a railway or branch railway, with all proper works peace for the said county of Lancaster, at his office and conveniences, stations, and approaches connec- at Preston, in the said county of Lancaster; and ted therewith, to commence at and by a junction that a copy of so much of the said plans, sections, with the said intended main line of railway, in the and books of reference, as relates to each of the township of Chorley, in the parish of Chorley, in parishes, in, or through which the- said intended the said county of Lancaster, and to terminate at railway, branches, stations, approaches, and works, and by a junction with tfie Bolton and Preston are proposed to be made, will be deposited on or Railway, in the said township of Chorley, in the before the thirty-first day of December, in the pre- parish of Chorley, and county of Lancaster afore- sent year, with the parish clerks of those parishes said; and also a railway or branch railway with all respectively, at their respective residences. proper works and conveniences, stations, and ap- Dated the third day of November, 1845. proaches connected therewith, to commence at and Thomas Ainsworth, Jun., Blackburn, by a junction with the said intended main line of Frederick Copley Hulton, Manchester, railway, in the township of Coppull, in the parish Solicitors. of Standish, in the said county of Lancaster, and to terminate at and by a junction with the North Union Railway, in the said township of Coppull, Borough of Ludlow. in the parish of Standish and county of Lancaster aforesaid. OTICE is hereby given, that application is in- tended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing And further notice is hereby given, that it is N proposed by the said intended Act or Acts to session, for leave to bring in a Bill for effecting an incorporate a company for carrying into effect the agreement and compromise concerning the estates objects and purposes aforesaid, with powers to pur- granted to the corporation of the borough of Lud- chase lands and houses by compulsion or agreement, low, by the charter of King Edward the Fourth, and t6 levy tolls, rates and duties in respect of the use the estates granted to the said corporation by the of the said intended railway, branches, and works, charter of King Edwaixl the Sixth, subject to cer- and to grant and confer such exemptions from tain charitable trusts or charges; and that it is pro- payment of such tolls, rates and duties, as to the posed by such Bill to vest in the trustees of the cha- said company may seem meet. rities within the said borough of Ludlow (appointed 1 And further notice is hereby given, that it is by order of the Lord Chancellor), under the autho- proposed by the said intended Act or Acts to rity of the Act of the fifth and sixth years of King vary, repeal or extinguish all existing rights William the Fourth, intituled " An Act to provide or privileges connected or usually enjoyed with for the regulation of Municipal Corporations in the lands and houses to be purchased under England and Wales;" a portion of the heredita- the authority of the said Act or Acts, or which ments comprised in the said charters (a schedule of would in any manner impede or interfere with the the hereditaments so to be vested in the said trus- construction, maintenance, or use of the said in- tees being intended to be appended to the said tended railway, branches, and works, and to confer Bill;) and also to vest in the said trustees the school, other rights and privileges. head master's house and garden, the under master's And further notice is hereby given, that it is house and garden, hosier's alms-houses, and the proposed to take power by the said intended Act or houses appertaining to the lectureship and reader-