-.-~ '51 & 52. VICTORU-SESSION.. 188-8. GE:EAT W:ESTERN RAILWAY ACT 1888. .' . Arrangement of Sec.t~on8. SECTIOK" Preamble, Short· Title l' Incorporation of General Acts .... 2: Interpretation 3 Po\ver to 'make Railways 4- Railways to be part of Company's undertaking 5' Height and span of'bridges .,~' 6 Widths of certain roadways· 7 Power to divert roads as shown on deposited Plans a- For the protection'of the Corporation of 'Bristol 9· , For the protection of the Bristol United Gas Light Company 10; For the protection 'of the Bristol Waterworks Company ... 11 For the protection of the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Company Limited 12' :for the protection b£the Avonbank Brick:and Tile' Company 13·- For the protection of the Dawlish Local Board 14.' Lands fot' extraordinary purposes .... 15 Period for completionof new' railways 16' Imposing' penalty unless newrailways opened ... 17· Application ofpenalty ... 18.- Sanctioning constructed railway at Barnstaple 19 Power to make new 'roads alterationsofroadsfootpaths (~c. 20· For the·prot~ctionof the Corporation of·Cardiff 21 For the protection'of the Reading Urban-SanitaryAuthority­ 22 Power to deviate iJ;! construction of new roads &c. 23: .A.S to vesting of site' and soil of portions of roads &c~ stopped up . 24 Extinguishment of'rights of way ...... 25 Roads notto be stopped up till new 'roads opened 26. Provision' as to repair of new-roads 27 Po,ver to-Company to make agreements as to the construction or contribution towards the cost of now roads .., . 28 Power tnCompanyto acquireadditional Iands for general purposes 29 Period for compulsory purchase of lauds 30 Power to 'owners to 'grant easements 31 Ownersmay be required to sell to Company parts only of certain properties •.• 32 .Restriction ,011 displacing persons of the labouring class '... .... 33 Provisicnwith respectto superfluous lands of the Company 34' Previsionwith respect to superfluous lands of the Company and North Weste'rn Oompany.... " ... ' 35 Ct>nlpany and North Western·Company may hold lands acquired by agreement 36 Revival"o£ powersand extension of. t~~e for purchase of lands fo1" Railwa~ ..No,:2 authorised by.No. 2 Act of 18~2. 3'1· Extensionoftime for construction of Railway No.2' authorised by No. 2 Act of ,. 1882 i •• 38- ~bandon1nentof Railways 1 and 3 authorised by No.2 Act of,1882 •.•. 39' A:~andonment.not to affect right to compensation for damage to 1'andby entry " &c.·£or purposes of 'work abandoned t •• - 4(} ~ '.'C: ;; .1, ::':I/~:;;: ·.~.~~:r7 ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS. SECTION Compensation to be made in respect of portions of railways abandoned 41 Agreements sot forth in fourth and :fifth schedules confirmed 42 As to recovery of dock dries .. ,_ 43 As to Custo.ms and other bonds given by Company 44 .Delivery warrants ... 45 Provisions as to Great Western Railway Medica] Fund Socioty . 46 Repeal of section 89 of Duffryn Llynvi and Porthcawl Railway Act 1825 ... ; 47 As to bond of Kington and Eardisley Railway Company 48 Vesting in Company the undertaking of the Leomi~ster and Bromyard Railway 'Company , 49 Leominster Company to he wound up 50 Power to Company to apply surplus funds for purposes of vesting ,the Leo­ minster Company's undertaking 51 Leominster shareholders not to be shareholders of Company, 52 Vesting in Company the undertaking of the Worcester Bromyard and Leominster \ Railway Company ... '. 53 Power to Company to apply surplus funds for purposes of vesting the Worcester Company's undertaking 54 Shareholders not to be shareholders of Company 55 As to capital of Company 56 Certificates of debenture stock &c. of Worcester Company ,to 'be exchanged 57 Certificates of preference stock of 'Vorc~,s~er Company to be exchanged 58 Certificates of ordinary shares of Worcester Company to be delivered to Great Western Company ... ' 59 Notice to be p;iven by Company ofintention to payoff Shareholders of Worcester Company .... 60 .Provisions as to lost certificat~s of Worcester eompany ...- 61 Dissolution of Kingsbridge and Salcombe Railway Company and transfer of powers'to Company ... 62 Kingsbridge and Salcombe Railway to become after transfer part of the under­ taking of the Company 63 Company may raise capital of Kingsbridge Company 64 Penalty imposed unless the Kingsbridge Railway is opened within the time limited 65 .Application of penalty in respect of Kingsbridge Railway 66 Ilelease of Kingsbridge Company's deposit . 67 Directors of Kingsbridge Company to wind up affairs 68 .Subscription to undertakings ofWest Draytonand WhitlandRailway Companies 69 Power to Companyto raise additional capital,.. 70 As to disposal by Company of new shares or stock 71 Power to .Company to cancelunissued shares- or stock 72 :Shares not to be issued by Company until one-fifth part thereof shall have been paid up ... ' 73 , .Escept as otherwise provided new shares or stock of Company to be subject to sameincidents as other shares or stock... 74 Dividends on new shares or stock of Company ..-. 75 .Restriction as to votes in respect of preferential shares or stock ~f Company ... 76 New shares or stock, of Company raised under this Act and any other Act - , of present Session may b~ of sanle class Power to Company to borrow . 'Company may issue debenture stock 79 ,Asto fractional parts of a pound of stock of the Company 80 r .A.RRANGE1IEXT OF SECTIONS. SEC'fION Application of moneys raised by Company ••• 81 Mortgages already granted by Company to have priority... E:2 Power to Company to apply surplus moneys to purposes of this Act... 8:3 .Power to Oldbury Railway Company to borrow 84 Provisions as to appointment of receiver of Oldbury Railway Company 85 Pr~ority of existing mortgages by Oldbury Railway Company Sf> -Oldbury Raihvay Company may create debenture stock ... 87 Application of moneys by Oldbury Railway Company R8 Power to Company and North Western Company to apply corporate funds to purposes of Act 8H Interest not to be paid on calls paid up in the Company and Oldbury Railway Company .... 90 Deposits for future Bills not to be paid out of capital 91 For the protection of the Postmaster-General H2 Saving rights of the Crown in the foreshore 9:3 Saving rights of the Crown 9-1: Saving rights of the Duchy of Cornwall D5 Provision as to General Railway Actu ... Hti -Costs of Act U7 SCHEDULE~. ... o I,,' .. .0 ~, ..:.: , fl. '. r>. .. , III • .',~ • •I L.- ~ ".,i.'"" ."' AO·T· For conferringfurther powers upon the Great Western Railway Uompany in connection with their own and other undertakings and upon them. and other Companies in connection with undertakings _in -which they are jointly interested for vesting in tpe Great Western Railway Company.the undertakings of_the Leominster andBrom­ yard and the Worcester Bromyard and Leominster. Railway Companies' and. the powers of .tho Kingsbridge and Saleombe Railway Companyand for-authorising and confirming agreements with other-Railway Companies and for other purposes. [ROYAL ASSENT 13TH AUGUST 1888.] - ') WHER:E~S it ~s ex~~di~nt that the Great West;rn ~aiiway Preamble. Company (In -this ...t\.ct called "the Company") should be empowered to execute make .and maintain theRailways and Widen- ingsof: railways and other works and to exercise the powers bytliis (Railwavs and -0 Act respectively authorised and conferred upon them. and to acquire other Works.) , for the p,urposes of this Act and for the. gejleral purp~ses of their undertaking and· works eonnected. therewith .and for providing I. increased accommodation certain Iands houses and buildings in this -Act described or referred to : o • 2 Great -Western Railway Ac: 1888. And whereas it is expedient that the construction and mainten­ ance of the. railway at.Bamstaple as hereinafter d~scribed ~hould be sanctioned as by this Act provided : {Depoait, of plans And, whereas plans'and sectionsshowing the lines and levels or &c.) the railways and other works by this Act authorized to be con- !} structed or sanctioned and the lands by this Act authorized to be acquired and also books of reference containing the names of the owners and. lessees or reputed owners and lessees and of the occupiers of those lands were duly 'deposited with the clerks of th.e peace for the' several counties within which those railways and other works 10' will be. constructed and those lands are situated and are hereinafter respectively referred to as the deposited plans sections and books of reference : (Superfluous And whereas it is expedient that the time limited for the sale of Lands.) certain lands acquired respectively'by the Company for' the purposes 15­ of ·their undertaking and by the Company and the London and North West~rn' Railway Company. (in this Act called the North Western Company) for ,the purposes of their joint undertakings should. .be extended and that further pow.ers should be conferred upon those Companies in respect of the sale lease or other disposal 2(} of those lands ; . (Lands acquired , And whereas the Company and' the North' Western Company for extraordinary purposes.) . ,ha"Jre acquired l)y agreement for the purpose of .providing additional stations sidings offices and other accommodation for or in connection with the traffic on their joint undertakings the lands 'described ill 2n. the third schedule to this A.9t .aud it is expedient that they should · be authorised'to hold the same: (Revival of.powers And whereas it is' expedient that the powers granted by the and extension of . •. A'. 188~as bime BailwayNo.B Great Western I Railway (No 2)ct amended by the Great ofl882.) Western Railway Act 1885, for the purchase of lands for the 30 purposes, of' the railway NOl 2 1'auth'orised by the 'first .. mentioned Act,· should be. revived and extended as in this Act provided .and that the period limited by the said Act of 1882 as 'amended.