North Eastern Railway Act 1893
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[56
&
57 VICT.] North
Eastern BaUway
Ad, 1893. [Oh. JxxiV.]
CHAPTER lxxiv.
An Act for enabling the North Eastern Railway Company
AD.
i893.
to make new Railways and other works and to acquire
additional lands and for other purposes.
[29th June 1893.]
W
HBEBAS it is expedient that the North Eastern Railway
Company (in this Act called "the Company") should be
empowered to make and execute the railways and other works by
this Act authorised and to acquire and hold the lands in this Act
described and that the other powers in this Act mentioned should
be conferred on the Company:
And whereas plans and sections showing the lines and levels of
the said railways and other works and plans of the said lands and
also books of reference containing the names of the owners and
lessees or reputed owners and lessees and of the occupiers of the said
lands were duly deposited with the clerks of the peace for the
several counties and ridings within which the said railways and
works will be constructed and the said lands are situate which plans
and sections and books of reference are in this Act respectively
referred to as the deposited plans sections and books of reference:
And whereas it is expedient that the Company the Tees
Conservancy Commissioners and the Commissioners of Woods
should be empowered to enter into agreements with each other as
hereinafter provided:
And whereas it is expedient that the Company should be em-
powered to raise further capital for the purposes aforesaid and for
the general purposes of their undertaking :
And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot be effected 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
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[Oh. Ixxiv.] North Eastern Railway Act, 1893. [56 & 57 Tier.]
A.D.
1893. and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the
authority of the same as follows (that is to say):—
Short
title.
\% This Act may be cited for all purposes as the North Eastern
Railway Act 1893.
Incorpora- 2. The following Acts and parts of Acts are (except where
tl0neralActs expressly varied by this Act) incorporated with and form part of
this Act (that is to say):—
The Lands Clauses Acts:
The Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 :
Part I. (relating to the construction of a railway) of the Railways
Clauses Act 1863:
The provisions of the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act 1845
with respect to the following matters (namely):—
The distribution of 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-payment of calls;
The remedies of creditors of the company against the share-
holders ;
The borrowing of money by the Company on mortgage or
bond;
The conversion of the borrowed money into capital;
The consolidation of shares into stock;
The powers of the directors and the powers of the Company
to be exercised only in general meeting^
The making of dividends; and
The giving of notices:
And Part I. (relating to cancellation and surrender of shares) and
Part II. (relating to additional capital) of the Companies
Clauses Act 1863 as amended by the Companies Clauses Act
1869.
Interpreta- 3. In this Act the several words and expressions to which
t]0D- 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 such construction:
The expression "the railway" or "the railways" means the
new railway or new railways by this Act authorised:
The expression " superior courts" or " court of competent juris-
diction "or any other like expression in
this.
Act or any Act
wholly or partially incorporated herewith shall for the purposes
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