Canals, &c. No. CCCXXVIII. Certificate. CANALS, RAILWAYS, &c. Obs. In the construction of canals, railways, docks, and other public works for which an Act of Parliament is required, the Standing Orders of the House of Commons must be consulted, as a compliance with those orders is necessary throughout all the proceedings relating to the obtaining of such private bills. The Standing Orders may be procured at the office for the sale of Parliamentary Papers, Great Turnstile, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Local Act for making a Canal by an Incorporated Company, see ante, No. XXIV. Local Act for making a Railway, see ante, No. XXVII. Assignment of a Canal Share, see ante, No. XXIV. sect. 62. Assignment of a Mortgage of the Tolls granted to a Canal No. CCCXXVIII. Certificate or Ticket of a Canal or Railway, &c. Share. Obs. This certificate or ticket is usually made by Acts of Parlia ment evidence of a proprietor's title, see ante, No. XXIV. sect. 39. These are to certify That A. B. is a proprietor of and intitled to one share No. of the undertaking of the pany incorporated by statute made in the Com year of the reign of her Maj. intitled (here set out the title of the Act). Given under the common seal of the said Company at their office at (Clerk) Conveyance to the Company of Lands purchased, see ante, No. Canals, &c. Mortgage of Tolls by the Proprietors of No. XXIV. sect. 41. see ante, No. CCCXXIX. Notice of Intention to apply for an Act of Parliament to make a Canal. Obs. 1. This form may be adapted to the making a railway, harbour, bridge, &c. 2. Such notices are required by the Standing Orders, sect. 15, to be published in three successive weeks in the months of October and November, or either of them, immediately preceding the session of Parliament in which application for the bill is to be made, in the London, Edinburgh, or Dublin Gazette, as the case may be, and in some paper of the county in which the city, town, or lands to which such bill relates is situate; and if there be no newspaper published therein, then in the newspaper of an adjoining county; and if the bill does not relate to any particular city, town, or lands, then in the Gazette only, the same to be delivered at the office two clear days previous to the publication of the same, see further as to publishing notices, Standing Orders, ub. sup. 3. A map or plan, with a book of references to the owners and occupiers, must be deposited with the clerk of the peace, see Ellis's Precedents of Proceedings in Parliament on Private Bills. Notice is hereby given to all whom it may concern That application is intended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing session for leave to bring in a bill for making and maintaining a navigable cut or canal from the harbour or wet dock at the parish of in the parish of in the county of in near to a certain mill known or commonly called by the name of and communicate with a canal belonging to the proprietors of the navigation from to and to join company of And for No. CCCXXIX. Notice. No. CCCXXIX. Notice. forming and maintaining reservoirs for the better supplying the the river in near or through the several parishes of so as to con nect the said canal with the said river by means of a lock or the several parishes townships vils hamlets or places of in the said county And also for making convenient roads and from or near the Crown public house on the south side of the church of L. in the county of the parish of to join the high road leading from E. to and also from the foot of the hill near in the county of to join the lane R. leading to the bridge over the river S. and along the banks of the same to where it joins the river M. Dated this day of By order A. B. (solicitor). No. CCCXXX. Notice to Owner. No. CCCXXX. Notice to Owner or Occupier of Lands wanted for the Completion of a Canal, Railway, Harbour, &c. Obs. A notice in the following form is required by the Standing Orders of the House to be given on or before the 31st Dec., immediately preceding the application of a bill by which any lands or houses are intended to be taken, see STANDING ORDERS, sect. 17. Sir, We beg to inform you that application is intended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing session for an Act (here insert the title of the Act) and that the property mentioned in the annexed schedule, or some part thereof, in which we understand you are Notice to Owner. interested as therein stated, will be required for the purposes of No. CCCXXX. the said undertaking, according to the line thereof as at present laid out, or may be required to be taken under the usual powers of deviation to the extent of yards on either side of the said line which will be applied for in the said Act, and will be passed through in the manner mentioned in such schedule. We also beg to inform you that a plan and section of the undertaking, with a book of references thereto, has been or will be deposited with the several clerks of the peace of the counties of (specify the counties in which the property is situate) on or before the 30th of November, and that copies of so much of the said plan and section as relates to the parish in which your property is situate, with a book of reference thereto, have been or will be deposited for public inspection with the clerk of the said parish (schoolmaster of the parish, town clerk of the royal burgh, or the postmaster of the post town in or near such parish as the case may be) on or before the 31st day of December instant, on which plans your property is designated by the numbers set forth in the annexed schedule. As we are required to report to Parliament whether you assent to or dissent from the proposed undertaking, or whether you are neuter in respect thereto, you will oblige us by writing your answer of assent, dissent, or neutrality in the form left herewith, and returning the same to us with your signature on or before the next; and if there should be any error or misdescription in the annexed schedule, we shall feel obliged by your informing us thereof at your earliest convenience, that we may correct the same without delay. day of We are, Sir, Your most obedient Servants. No. CCCXXXI. Petition to Parliament for a Railway Act. Obs. Columns for signatures of the petitioners, not being members of Parliament, to be engrossed on parchment in words at length, and to be annexed when presented to an estimate signed by an engineer of the expences, an account of the money subscribed, with the names No. CCCXXXI. Petition. No. CCCXXXI. Petition. of the subscribers; also a list of the owners and occupiers of lands to To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Sheweth The humble petition of the several persons whose names are hereunto subscribed being owners of estates in the county of traders residing in the city of L. of B. or merchants and and the city That the making a railway with proper works and conveniences adjoining thereto or connected therewith for the passage of waggons and other carriages from or near the town of L. in the county of M. in or through the sevl parishes of to the township of S. together with two branches commencing at or near to certain closes or lands called R. in the township of W. in the parish of P. will be of great advantage to the inhabitants of the said county town and neighbourhood by opening a cheap and expeditious mode of communication between the two leading towns of and of That one branch extending itself northwardly into or near to a certain close or field in the township of G. opposite or near to B. potteries will communicate by means of a tramroad with the harbour or wet dock of P. and the other branch extending itself to the east of the church of N. as far as the mill at O. will communicate with the canal of L. And also that this latter branch will open a short and easy communication from the town of F. to the sea and afford a cheap and ready conveyance of agricultural produce and other commodities from thence and facilitate the supply of goods wares and merchandize from different quarters of the world And also that your petitioners and all other owners of estates merchants manufacturers tradesmen and residents near to the said intended railway are desirous of having the benefit of such communication and of forming themselves into a company for the purpose of carrying the undertaking into execution but they cannot effect |