LEEDS, DEWSBURY, AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY. ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES. SECTION Incorporation of General Acts 1 Short Title of Act . 2 Subscribers incorporated . 3 Clauses relating to the Capital . 4-7 Clauses relating't:o the Management . 8-12 Newspaper for Advertisements . 13 Clauses relating to the purchase of Lands, and the Con- struction of the Railway . 14-19 Power to cross certain Roads on a Level . 20 For protection of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal • . 21-23 For protection of the Calder and Hebble Navigation . 24-29 For protection of the Leeds and Bradford Railway Company 30-33 Certain Property not to be affected . 34 Clauses relating to the Tolls . 35-41 Payment of Interest on Calls 42 ·Remuneration of Directors . 43 ProYisions as to the formation of a pa»t of the Line . 44, 45 Provision for general Railway Acts 46, 4 7 Public Act . 48 13 8 & 9 V1cT.-SEss. 1845. AN A C For making a Railway from Leeds by Dewshury to Huddersfield, all in the West Riding of the County of York, and for improving the Com­ munication by Railway between the Towns of Leeds and Huddersfield and the Town of Man­ chester. [Royal Assent, 30th June, 1845.] ~ J!1.UBUR~ the making of a Railway from Leeds Preamble. ~ by Dewsbury to Huddersfield, in the West Riding of the County of York, would be of great public advantage, and would improve the communication by Railway between the towns of Leeds and Huddersfield, and the town of Man­ chester: And whereas the persons hereinafter named are willing at their own expense to carry such Undertaking into execu­ tion, but the same cannot be effected without the authority of Parliament : May it therefore please Your MAJESTY, That it may be enacted ; RnlJ llt tt UttacttlJ, by the QUEEN'S Most Excellent :MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spritual and Temporal, and Com­ mons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the several Acts following, that 1. is to say, the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, :.ncorrcr the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and the Railways r':.0Acts.e 11e­ Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, shall be incorporated with and [ 4 J and form part of this Act, and shall, ·with the same, be con­ strued as one Act. !. Short title. And be it enacted, That in citing this Act in other Acts of Parliament and in legal instruments, it shall be sufficient to use the expression, " The Leeds, Dews bury, and Man­ chester Railway Act, 1845." 3. ~ubscribers And be it enacted, That John Allison, Joseph Armitage, incorporated. John Atkinson, John Henry Bates, John Beaumont, Christo­ pher Beckett, Thomas Benyon, Samuel J o\\'itt Birchall, Samuel Birchall, George Bischoff, Joseph Brook, Joseph Brook junior, George Henry Brook, William Brook, John Brook, William Williams Brown, William Burd, Abraham Burnle_y, William Cadman, William Chadwick, Joseph Chad­ wick, Joseph Travis Clay, Thomas Cook, George Crosland, George Crowther, Thomas Townend Dibb, John Nichols Dickinson, Benjamin Dixon, William Gatlift~ Ayrton Gatliff, Jeremiah Glover, John Gott, William Gott, Edward Grace, Thomas Haigh, George Hammond, Charles Hardy, Edward Lake Hesp, John Hesp, ·w illiam Hey Samuel Hey, Charles Hirst, Abraham Hirst, Joseph Holdsworth, John Jackson, Charles Johnson, John J owitt, Robert J owitt, Henry Leah, John Wignall Leather, Julius Lowenthal, John Darnton Luccock, Thomas Mallinson, George Mallinson, James Garth Marshall, Henry Cowper Marshall, David William Nell, Henry Newbery, Lewis Novelli, JohnNussey,John Hodgson Ramsbotham, Cornelius Randall, Richard Raywood, John Robinson, Norrison Scatcherd, Watson Scatcherd, George Sheard, William Sheepshanks, William Shaw, Foster Shaw, George Smith, George Smith- junior, John Smith, Joseph Starkey, Thomas Starkey, Henry Stead, Joseph Sykes, Ed­ ward Tew, Benjamin Walker, Thomas Webb, Matthias Whitehead, Lamplugh Wickham Wickham, Henry Wickham Wickham, James Woodall, and Percival W ormald, and all other persons and corporations who have already subscribed, or shall hereafter subscribe to the Undertaking, and their executors, administrators, successors and assigns respectively, shall be united into a Company for the purpose of making and maintaining a Railway from the township of Holbeck, in the parish of Leeds, there forming a junction with the Leeds and Bradford Railway, by the town of Dews bury, to or near to the town of Huddersfield, and also to and to form a junction with the Manchester and Leeds Railway, in the parish [ 5 ] parish of Kirkheaton, all in the West Riding of the county of York, together with the several Branch Railways herein­ after mentioned, and with proper works and conveniences belonging thereto respectively, according to the provisions • of the said Acts, and of this Act, and for other the purposes herein and in the said AdlJ contained ; and, for the purposes aforesaid, such Company shall be incorporated by the nam~ of "The Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway Com­ pany," and by that name shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession, and shall have power to purchase and hold lands for the purposes of the Undertaking, .within the restrictions herein and in the said Acts contained. And whereas the estimated expense of making the said Capitat Railway is six hundred and forty thousand pounds, be it en­ acted, '"fhat the capital of the Company shall be six hundred and fifty thousand pounds : Provided nevertheless, that if, under the provisions hereinafter contained, the Company shall not execute so much of the Railway hereby authorized, as lies between the To"'-n of Huddersfield and the Junction thereof with the Manchester and Leeds Railway, then the capital of the Company shall be only five hundred thousand pounds. 5. And be it enacted, That the number of shares into which Number and the capital shall be divided shall be thirteen thousand if the :.:~:~t of Company shall raise the whole sum of six hundred and fifty thousand pounds, and ten thousand if the Company shall only raise the sum of five hundred thousand pounds, and the amount of each share shall be fifty pounds. And be it enacted, That five pounds per share shall be Calls. G. the greatest amount of any one call which the Company may make on the shareholders, and twenty pounds of the amount of a share shall be the utmost aggregate amount of calls that may be made in any one year upon any share, and three months at the least shall be the interval between successive calls. 1. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Com- Power to pany to borrow on mortgage or bond any sums not exceeding t~~:; in the whole the sum of one hundred and sixty-six thousand · pounds, but no part of such sum shall be borrowed until the whole of the said capital or sum of five hundred thousand 18 B pounds [ 6 ] pounds shall have been subscribed for, and three hundred and twenty-five thousand pounds shall have been actually paid up. 8. Numberand And be it enacted, That the number of Directors shall ~u~':~~:. be nine, and the qualification of a Director shall be the pos­ session in his own right of twenty shares in the Undertaking. 9. Power to And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Com­ vary the Number of pany to increase or reduce the number of Directors, provided Directors. that the increased number do not exceed twelve and that the reduced nvmber be not less than five. 10. First Direc­ And be it enacted, That Christopher Beckett, William tors. Williams Brown, Thomas Benyon, Joseph Brook, Thomas Cook, John Gott, James Garth Marshall, David William Nell and Thomas Starkey, shall be the first Directors of the Company. 11. Quorum. And be it enacted, That the quorum of a meeting of Directors shall be three. 12. Committee And be it enacted, That the number of Directors, of ot Directors. which committees appointed by the Directors shall consist, shall be not less than· three nor more than five, and the quorum of such committee shall be two. l& . Ne'Yspap~r And be it enacted, That the newspaper in which adver- ~fld:::ti~!- tisements relating to the atfairs of the Company are to be ments. inserted, shall be some newspaper published in the West Riding of the county of York. 14. Power to And whereas plans and sections of the Railway, showing make Rail­ the line and levels thereof, and also books of reference, way accord­ ing to De­ containing the names of the· owners, lessees and occupiers, posited or reputed owners, lessees and occupiers, of the lands Plans. through which the same is intended to pass, have been de­ posited with the clerk of the peace of the West Riding of the county of York ; be it therefore enacted, That, subject to the provisions in this and the said Acts contained, it shall be lawful for the said Company to make and maintain the said Railway and Works in the line and upon the lands delineated on the said plans, and described in the said books of reference, and to enter upon, take and use such of the said lands as shall be necessary for such purpose. And [ 7 ] . lL And be it enacted, That the said Railway shall com- Line of Rail­ mence in the township of Holbeck, in the parish of Leeds, way. there forming a junction with the Leeds and Bradford Rail- way, and shall pass through or into the several places fol- lowing, or some of them ; that is to say, Leeds, Holbeck, Wortley, Beeston, Churwell, West Ardsley otherwise Wood- church, Morley, Batley, Soothill, Batley Car, Dews bury, Mirfield, Kirkheaton and Huddersfield, all in the West Riding of the county of York; and shall (subject to the pro- visions hereinafter mentioned respecting