Okehampton Railway Act 1862
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1862 c. clxv |
ANNO VICESIMO QUINTO & VICESIMO SEXTO
VICTORLE REGINvE.
Cap.
clxv.
An Act for making a Railway from the North
Devon
Railway in the Parish of Colebrook in the
County of Devon to Okehampton in the same
County; and for other Purposes.
[17th July 1862.]
W
HEREAS the making of a Railway from the North Devon
Railway in the Parish of
Colebrook
in the County of Devon
to
Okehampton
in the same County would be of great public
and local Advantage : And whereas Plans and Sections of the proposed
Railway, showing the Line and Levels
thereof,
and also a Book of
Reference containing the Names of the Owners or reputed Owners,
Lessees or reputed Lessees, and Occupiers of the Land through which
the same is intended to pass, or which may be required for the Purposes
of the Undertaking, have been deposited with the Clerk of the Peace
for the County of Devon, and those Plans, Sections, and Books of Refer-
ence are in this Act referred to as the deposited Plans, Sections, and
Books of Reference: And whereas the Persons herein-after named, with
others, are willing at their own Expense to carry the said Undertaking
mto execution if authorized so to do, and are desirous of being incor-
[Locd.] 26 0 porated
2354 25° & 26° VICTORIES, Cap.dxv.
The
Ohehampton Railway
Act, 1862/
porated into a Company for that Purpose : And whereas it is expedient
that the Company hereby incorporated (and herein-after called " the
Company ") and the London and
South-western
Railway Company and
the North Devon Railway Company (herein-after referred to as "the
Two Companies ") should respectively be empowered to enter into such
Arrangements as are herein-after mentioned with respect to the Railway
and Works by this Act authorized to be constructed
:
And whereas the
Objects of this Act cannot be effected without the Authority of Parlia-
ment : 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; (that is to say,)
Short
Title.
1. This Act may be cited for all Purposes as "The
Okehatnpton
Railway Act, 1862."
8&9Vict. 2. "The Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," "*The Lands
20 16^18,& Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," "The Railways Clauses Consolidation
23&24Vict. Act, 1845," and "The Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts Amendment
c.
106.
in- Act, 1860," shall (excepting in so far as expressly varied or altered by
pora ' this Act) be incorporated with and form Part of this Act.
Same
Mean- 3. The several Words and Expressions to which by the Acts incor-
ing
to Words
p0rated with this Act Meanings are assigned have in this Act the same
in incorpo- . i i • i n i • n i •
rated
Acts as
respective Meanings unless there be in the Subject or Context something
in this
Act.
repugnant to or inconsistent with such Construction.
Incorpora- ^ Shilston Calmady Hamlyn, John Fulford Vicary, Alexander
pany. Hoyes, Christian
Sudd,
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 main-
taining the Railway by this Act authorized, to be called " The Oke-
hampton Railway," and for other the Purposes of this Act and for such
Purposes shall be incorporated by the Name of "The Okehampton
Railway Company," and by that Name shall be a Body Corporate, with
perpetual Succession and a Common Seal, and shall have Power to
purchase, take, hold, and dispose of Lands and other Property for the
Purposes but subject to the Restrictions of this Act, and to put this Act
in all respects into execution.
Capital and 5. The Capital of the Company shall be One hundred and thirty
thousand Pounds, and the Num
be divided shall be Six thousai
Share shall be Twenty Pounds.
Number and thousand Pounds, and the Number of Shares into which the Capital shall
Shares. ^e divided shall be Six thousand five hundred, and the Amount of each
6, Five
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