Chester and Crewe Railway Act 1837

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1837 c. lxiii
Year1837
ANN0
PRTMO
VICTORIA3
REGIN&.
Cap.
lxiii.
An
Act
for
making a Railway
fi*om
the
City
of
Chester
to
join
“The
Grand Junction Railway” near
Crewe
Hall
in
the
County
of
Chester,
to
be
called
cc
The
Chester
and
Crewe
Railway.”
@Oth
June
1837.1
HEREAS
the making of a Railway from the
City
of
Cbesfer
to unite with the Grand Junction Railway at or near
Crewe
W
Hall
in the
County
of
Chester
would be
of
great public
Advantage
:
And whereas the several Persons herein-after named, with
other Persons, are willing, at their own Expence, to carry into
exe-
cution the before-mentioned Undertaking, but the same 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, and Commons, in Parliament assembled,
and by the Authority
of
the same, That
Tbomas Dixon,
John
Uniacke,
Proprietors
Edward Samuel Walker, Thomas Sudworth, WiDiam Wardell, John CIemi-
son, William
Cross,
Tbomas Bagnall, John Royle, Joseph Janion, Tbomas
Bancrofi Bennett, William Sprent, Tbomas Palin, Willianr Brown, Richard
Bryans, Benjamin Thomas, John Somerville Jackson, Daniel Campbell,
Charles Wardell, Cbristopher Bentham, Hamilton
Wood,
James Burt,
Joseph
White, John Burgess,
John
Can2pbel1, Michael Humble, John Aspinalk, William
Mulvey, Alexander
Booth,
William Richards, William Hading, Thomas
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VICTORIX,
Cap.
lxiii.
Gibbons
Frost,
George Rawson, John Gilbert, John Smitb, Matthew Dobson
Lowndes, Joseph Lyon, John Fletcher, Edward Ducker, James Bryans,
William Jackson, William Stevenson, Joseph Fletcher, Ralph Capper,
John
Rogers, Thomas Jones, James Folliott, John Seacome, John Foulkes, Thomas
Bowers,
and all other Persons and Corporations who have subscribed or shall
hereafter subscribe towards the said Undertaking, and their several and
respective Successors, Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, shali be
and they are hereby united into a Company for making and maintaining
the said Railway and other Works
by
this Act authorized, and for other
the Purposes herein declared, according to the Provisions and Restrictions
herein-after mentioned, and for that Purpose shall be one Body Cor-
porate by the Name and Style
of
“The
Chester
and
Crewe
Railway
Company,” and
by
that Name shall have perpetual Succession and a
Common Seal, and by that Name shall and may sue and
be
sued, and
also shall have Power and Authority
to
purchase, hold, and sell Lands
for the Use and Benefit of the said Undertaking, without incurring any
Penalties
or
Forfeitures, and shall have and exercise a11 other Powers and
Authorities which are herein-after given or mentioned.
Rules
for
the
11.
And be it further enacted, That where in this Act any Word
Jnterpreta-
tion of
this
Act.
Company
empowered
to
ninke
the
Railway.
shall be used importing the Singular Number or the Masculine ’Gender
only, such Word shall be understood
to
include several Matters as well as
one Matter, several Persons
as
well as one Person, and Females as well
as Males
;
and where the Word
‘‘
Lands” shall be used, the same shall
be understood
to
include Tenements and Hereditaments
;
and where the
Word
‘‘
Corporation
shall be used, the same shall be understood to
mean any Body Politic, Corporate,
or
Collegiate, Civil or Ecclesiastical,
Aggregate
or
Sole
;
unless in any
of
the Cases aforesaid it be otherwise
specially provided, or there be something
in
the Subject or Context
repugnant to such Construction.
111.
And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said
Company and they are hereby empowered to make and maintain the
Railway hereimafter mentioned, with all necessary and proper DepBts,
Stations, Approaches,
Works,
and Conveniences connected therewith, in
the Line or Course, and upon, across, under,
or
over the Lands delineated
on the Plan and described in the Book of Reference deposited with the
respective Clerks
of
the Peace for the County of
Chester
and of the
County
of
the
City
of
Chester;
(that is to say,) commencing on the
North-west
Side
of
Brook
Street
in the Parish
of
Saint Oswald
in the City
of
Chester,
and terminating by a Junction with
the
intended Grand
Junction Railway in the Township of
Crewe
in the Parish
of
Barthomley
in the County of
Chester,
and near to where the Grand Junction Railway
intersects or
is
intended to intersect the Turnpike Road between
Sandbach
and
Nantwich
in the said County
of
Chester,
which said Railway will be
made and pass
in,
from, through, or into the several Parishes, Townships,
Chapelries, Lordships, Hamlets, and Places of
Saint Oswald
and
Saint
John the Baptist
in the City
of
Chester,
and
Saint Oswald, Great Boughton,
Christleton, Rowton, Waverton, Hatton, Newton,
or
Newton
by
Tattenhall,
Tuttenhall, Bunbury, Beeston, Tiverton, Tilston Fearnall, Alpraham,
Caiveley, WardZe, Acton, Cholmondeston, Aston
otherwise
Aston juxta
Mondrum, Worleston, Nantwich, Woolston Wood, Coppenhall, Monks Coppen-
hall,
Barthomiey,
and
Crewe
in
the
County
of
Chester.
IV.
And
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IV.
And whereas Maps or Plans and Sections, describing the Line
IJIm
ar~ci
and Levels of the said Railway and the Lands upon or through which
Books
of&-
the said Railway
is
intended to be carried
or
made, together with
Books
~~~~~~j~
of
Reference thereto containing
Lists
of
the Names of the Owners
or
Gusto+,
,,f
reputed Owners and Occupiers
of
such Lands, have been deposited
Clerk
of
the
with the Clerks of the Peace for the County
of
Chestcr,
and of the
Peace.
County of the
City
of
Chester;
be it therefore enacted, ‘That the said
Maps
or
Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference
so
deposited, such
Maps or Plans and Sections being the
Maps
or Plans and Sections
appraved
of
by
Parliament, shall remain
with
and
be
kept by the said
Clerks
of
the Peace respectively
;
md
all
Personsinterested in any Manner
in
such Lands
shall
have Liberty
at
all
reasonable ‘I’imes
to
inspect and
to
make Extracts from
or
Copies of the said Maps or Plans, Sections,
and
Books
of Reference respectively, paying to the Clerk
of
the Peace
in whose Custody the Map
or
Plan, Section,
or
Book of Reference
so
inspected
or
referred
to
may be,
for
every Inspection the Sum
of
One
Shilling, and for Copies
of
or Extracts from the said
Books of
Re‘ference
after the Rate of Sixpence far every One hundred Words; and the
said Maps or Plans, Sections, and
Books
of
Reference, or true Copies
thereof,
or
of
so
much thereof respectively
as
shall relate to any Matter
which may be in question, shall be certified by the said Clerks of the
Peace,
or
oneof thern, and are hereby declared to be good Evidence in
all
Courts
of
Law or elsewhere.
V.
Provided always, and be
it
further enacted, That it shall
be
lawful
?[lintell-
for
the said Company to make
the
said Railway and other Works in the
Line or Course, and upon, across, under, or over the Lands delineated
pjans
or
on the said Maps or Plans, although such Lands
or
any of them,
or
Books
of
the Situation thereof respectively,
or
the Names of the Owners or Occu-
Keferem~
piers thereof respectively, may happen to be omitted, mis-stated, or
~~~,“t;,~‘“’
erroneously described
in
the said
Books
of
Reference or in
the
Schedule
~~~~~~i~~)
of
to this Act annexed, if it shall appear to any
Two
or
more Justices of
the
Act.
the Peace
for
the County, City, or Place wherein the Matter in question
shall arise (in case
of
Dispute about the same), and be certified by Wriring
under their Hands, that such Omission, Mis-statement, or erroneous De-
scription proceeded from Mistake
;
and every such Certificate shall be
deposited with and remain in the Custody of the respective Clerks
of
the
Peace of the said Counties,
as
the
Case
may require.
VI.
And be it further enacted, That the said Ccmpany in making
the
Con~:)atiy
said Railway
by
this
Act
authorized
shall
have
full
Power and
Au-
en’f.’Owered
to
deviate
thority to deviate from the Line delineated
on
the Maps
or
Plans
so
Plans
Lo
deposited with the Clerks
of
the Peace
as
herein-before mentioned,
nnEstent
with such Deviation
in
the Section
as
may be necessary in consequence
exceeding
thereof: Provided always, that no such Deviation shall extend to
a
greater
~~:~d~~~~,,,,
Distance than
One
hundred Yards, and in passing through
my
City
or
Town
swh Deviation shall not extend
to
a
greater Distance than Ten
Yards, from the Line
so
delineated upon the said Plans,
cor
shall such
Deviation extend into the Lands or Property
of
any Person whose Name
is
not mentioned in the said Book
of
Reference, unless the
Name
OF
such
Person shall have been omitted by Mistake, and unless
the
Fact that such
Omission
proceeded from Mistake shall have been certified in manner
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