Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (New Railways) Act 1888
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1888 c. cxlv |
| Year | 1888 |
[51 & 52 VICT.] Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire [Oh. CXlV.]
Railway (New Railways) Act, 1883-
CHAPTER cxlv.
An Act to authorise the Manchester Sheffield and Lincoln- AD*1888*
shire Railway Company to make new railways to confer
further powers on the Company in connection with their
undertaking and for other purposes. [7th August 1888.]
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HEREAS it is expedient that the Manchester Sheffield and
Lincolnshire Railway Company (hereinafter called " the Com-
pany ") be authorised to construct and maintain in connection with
their undertaking the railways hereinafter described and to exercise
the other powers by this Act conferred upon the Company:
And whereas it is expedient that the Company bo authorised to
raise further capital for the purposes of this Act:
And whereas plans and sections showing the lines and levels of
the railways authorised by this Act and also books of reference
containing the names of the owners and lessees or reputed owners
and lessees and of the occupiers of the lands houses and other
property required or which may be taken for the purposes or under
the powers of this Act were duly deposited with the respective
clerks of the peace for the county of Lancaster and the West
Riding of the county of York and are hereinafter respectively re-
ferred to as the deposited plans sections and books of reference:
And whereas the objects aforesaid cannot be attained without the
authority of Parliament;
May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted and
be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty by and with
the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and
Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority
of the same as follows :
1.
This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Manchester Short title.
Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (New Railways) Act 1888.
2.
The Lands Glauses Consolidation Acts 1845 1860 and 1869 as Incorpora-
amended by the Lands Clauses (Umpire) Act 1883 the Railways I0n °
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except where expressly varied by this Act incorporated with .and
form part of this Act.
3.
The clauses and provision^ of the Companies Clauses Co&soli-
dation. Act 1845 with respect to
The distribution
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the capital of the Company into shares;
The transfer or transmission of shares:
The payment of subscriptions and the means of enforcing the
payment of calls:
The forfeiture of shares for non-paymentof calls:
The remedies of the creditors of the Company against share-
holders :
The borrowing of money by the Company on mortgage ©r bond:
The conveapsion of the borrowed money into ^capital.:
The consolidation of the shares into stock :
'Tflie general meetings of the Company ami t&e exercise of the
right of voting by the shareholders;
The making of dividends.:
The giving of notices.: and
The provision to be made for affording access to the special Act
by all parties interested:
And Parts I. II. ?and III. of the Companies Clauses Act 1863
relating respectively to the cancellation and surrender of shares
to additional capital and to debenture stock:
are (except where expressly varied by this Aet) incorporated with
;and form part of this Act and shall apply to the Company and to
the cajpital by this. Act authorised to be raised by them.
4.
In this Act the several words and expressions to which
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meanings are assigned by the Acts wholly or partially incorporated
herewith have the same respective meanings unless there be some-
thing in the subject or context repugnant to or inconsistent with
such construction and in and for the purposes of this Act the
expression "the railway" shaU mean the railways by this Act
authorised and the expression "superior courts" or "court of
competent jurisdiction " or any other like expression in this Act or
any Act wholly or partially incorporated herewith shall be read and
have effect as if the debt or demand with respect to which the
expression is used were a simple contract debt and not a debt or
.demand created by statute.
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[51 & 52 VICT.] Manchester,
STieffield,
and Lincolnshire [Oh. CXlV.]
Railway (Neiv Railways) Act, 1888.
deposited plans and sections the railways hereinafter described with A.D. 1888,
all necessary and convenient stations sidings approaches roads June- TOyJ7nd
tions works and conveniences eontiected therewith and may enter other works,
upon take and use such of the lands delineated on the said plans
and described in the deposited books of reference as may be required
for that purpose. The railways hereinbefore referred to and
-authorised by this Act are.:—
A railway (No. 1) one mile six furlongs twenty-three links in
length situate wholly in the county of Lancaster commencing
in the parish of Walton-on-the-Hill by a junction with the
North Liverpool Railway of the Cheshire Lines Committee in
their Huskisson goods yard and terminating in the parish and
city of Liverpool at -or beneath the south side of Ranelagh
Street.
A railway (No. 2) four furlongs one chain ninety-eight links in
length situate wholly in the parish and city of Liverpool in the
county of Lancaster commencing by a junction with railway
(No.
1) at the termination of that railway and terminating at
or beneath Great George Street.
A railway (No. 3) one furlong nine chains sixty links in length
situate wholly in the parish and city of Liverpool commencing
by a junction with railway (No. 2) at the termination of that
railway and terminating by a junction with .the "up" line of
rails of the Liverpool Central Station Railway of the Cheshire
Lines Committee.
A railway (No. 4) one furlong six chains seventy links in length
situate wholly in the parish and city of Liverpool commencing
by a junction with railway (No. 2) at the termination of that
railway and terminating by a junction with the " down " line of
rails of the Liverpool Central Station Railway of the Cheshire
Lines Committee.
A railway (No. 5) five chains forty links in length situate wholly
in the parish of Liverpool in the county of Lancaster commenc-
ing by a junction with the Mersey Railway now in course of
construction and terminating at or beneath the tunnel of the
Liverpool Central Station Railway of the Cheshire Lines
Committee.
A railway (No. 7) three miles four furlongs in length situate
wholly in the "West Riding of the county of York commencing
in the township of Monk Bretton in the parish of Royston by a
junction with the Barnsley Coal Railway of the Company and
terminating in the township of Houghton Parva otherwise
Little Houghton in the parish of Darfield by a junction with
the Houghton Main Colliery Sidings.
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