Leeds, Dewsbury and Manchester Railway Act 1845
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1845 c. xxxvi |
ANN0
OCTAVO
&
NON0
IB
REGINB.
Cap.
xxxvi.
An
Act
for
making a Railway
from
Leech,
by
I
Dewsbwy,
to
Hzrddemjeld,
all
in
the
West
Riding
of
the
County
of
York;
and
for
improving
the
Cornmuiiicatioii
by
Railway
betweeii the
Towns
of
Leah
and
Htsrlder$eZd
and
the
Tow11
of
filerriz
chestcr.
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S45.1
HEREAS
the making
of
a Railway from
Leeds,
by
Dews-
bury,
to
HudclersJield,
in the West Riding
of
the County
of
York,
would be
of
great public Advantage, and would
improve the Communication by Railway between the Towns
of
Leeds
and
Huddersfield
and the Town
of
Manchester:
And whereas the
Persons herein-after named are willing,
at
their own Expence, to carry
such Undertaking into execution, 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
this present Parlia-
ment assembled, and
by
the Authority
of
the same, That the several
Acts follo~ving, (that is to say,) the Companies Clauses Consolidation
~~~''~P~~~c-
Act,
1845,
1845,
and the
Acts,
[
Local.
1
8M
Railways
Railways
Clauses Consolidation
Act,
1845,
shall be incorporated with
and form Part
o
h
the same
be
construed as
One Act.
short
Title.
11.
And be
it
this
Act
in
other Acts
of
Parliament, and in legal Instruments,
it
shall be sufficient to
use
the Expression The
Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester
Railway
Act,
1845.”
subscritxrs
111.
And be it enacted, That
John
Allison, Joseph Armitage,
incorpo-
John Atkinson, John Henry Bates, John Beaumont, Christopher
rated.
Beckett, Thomas Benyon, Samuel Jowitt Birchall, Samuel Birchalt,
George Bischcfi Joseph Brook, Joseph Brook
junior,
George HenTy
Brook, William Brook, John Brook, William Williunzs Brown,
William
Bud,
Abraham Burnle~y, William Cadman, Williain Chad-
wick, Joseph Chadwick,
Joseph
Travis Clay, Thomas
Cook,
George
Crosland, George Crowtlzer, Thomas Townend Dibb,
John
Nichols
Dickinson, Benjamin Dixon, William Gat& Ayrton Gat& Jere-
miah Glover, John Gott, William Gott, Edward Grace,
TILoims
Haigh, George Hammond, Charles Hardy, Edward Lake Hap,
John Hesp, William Hey, Sawme1 Hey, Charles Hirst, Abraham
Hirst, Joseph Holdsworth,
John
Jackson, Charles Johnson,
John
Jowitt, Robert Jowitt, Henry Leah, John Wignall Leather, Julius
Lowenthal, John Darnton
LUCCOC~,
Thomas
Mallinson, George
Mallinson, James Garth Marslzall, Hewy Couyer Marshall, David
William Nell, Henry New bey, Lewis
Novelli,
John
ATZissqy,
John
Hodpson
Ramsbothnm, Cornelius Randall, Richard Rnywood,
Jofm
Robrnson, Norrisoit Scatcherd, Watson Xcatcherd, George Sheard,
William Sheepshanks, William Shaui, Foster Shaw, George Smith,
George Smith
junior,
John
Smith, Joseph Starkey, Thomas Starkcy,
Henry Stead, Joseph Qkes, Edward Tew, Benjhmin Walker,
Thomas Webb, Matthias Whitehead,
Lamplugh
Wickhain Wickham,
Henry Wickham Wickham, James Woodall,
and
Percinal Wormald,
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 maintaining
a
Rail-
way from the Township of
Holbeck
in
the Parish of
Leeds,
there
forming
a
Junction with the
Leeds and Bradford
Railway, by the
Town of
Dewsbury,
to or near to the Town
of’Huddersfield,
and also
to
and to form
a
Junction with the
Manclzester and Leeds
Railway
in the Parish of
Kirkheaton,
all in the West Riding of the County
of’
York,
together with the several Branch Railways herein-after men-
tioned, and with proper Works and Conveniences belonging thereto
respectively, according to the Provisions
of
the said Acts
and
of this
Act: and for other the Purposes herein and in the said Acts con-
tained
;
and for the Purposes aforesaid such Company
shall
be
incor-
porated by the Name of “The
Leeds, Dewsbury, and Munchester
Railway Company,” and by that Name shall be
a
Body Corporate,
with perpetual Succession, and shall have Power to purchase and hold
Lands
for
the Purposes of the Undertaking within the Restrictions
herein and in the said Acts contained.
3
IV.
A4nd
8"
&
9"
VICTORIE,
Cupxxxvi.
691
.
Iv.
And whereas the estimated Expence
of
making the said
Capital.
hilway
is
Six hundred and forty thousand Pounds; be
it
enacted,
That the Capital of the Company shall be Six hundred and
fifty
thousand Pounds
:
Provided nevertheless, that
if,
under the Provision's
herein-after contained, the Company shall not execute
so
much of the
Railway hereby authorized as lies between the Town of
Huddersfield
and the Junction thereof with the
Manchester and Leeds
Railway,
then the Capital of the Company shall be only Five hundred thousand
Pounds.
V.
And be it enacted, That the Number
of
Shares into which
Numberallcl
the Capital shall be divided shall be Thirteen thousand if the Com-
Amount
of
pany shall raise the whole Sum of Six hundred and fifty thousand
Shares*
Pounds, and Ten thousand if the Company shall only raise the
Sum
of Five hundred thousand Pounds, and the Amount of each Share
shall be
Fifty
Pounds.
greatest Amount
of
any One Call which the Company may make on
the Shareholders, and Twenty Pounds of the Amount
of
a Share
shall be the utmost aggregate Amount
of
Calls that may be made in
any One Year upon any Share, and Three Months at the least shall
be the Interval between successive Calls.
VI.
And be it enacted, That Five Pounds
per
Share shall be the
Calls.
VII.
And be it enacted, That
it
shall be laxful
for
the Company
Power
to
to borrow on Mortgage or Bond any Sums not exceeding in the whole
borrow
the Sum of One hundred and sixty-six thousand Pounds, but
no
Part
of
such Sum shall be borrowed until the whole of the said Capital or
Sum
of
Five hundred thousand Pounds shall have been subscribed
for, and Three hundred and twenty-five thousand Pounds shall have
been actually paid
up.
VIII. And be it enacted, That the Number of Directors shall be
Nuniber
anti
Nine, and the Qualification
of
a Director shall be the Possession in
Qualificatiol1
his own Right of Twenty Shares in the Undertaking.
IX. And be it enacted, That
it
shall be lawful for the Company
Power
to
to increase or reduce the Number
of
Directors, provided that the
var~t11e
increased Number do not exceed Twelve, and that the reduced
Directors.
Number be not less than Five.
of
Directors.
Number
of
X.
And be
it
enacted, That
Cliristoplzer
Beckett,
William
Wil-
First Direc-
limns
Brown,
Tlzomns
Benyon,
Joseph
Brook,
Thoinas
Cook,
John
tors.
Gott,
J&mes
Garth
Marshall,
David William Nell,
and
T/homas
Stai*lcey,
shall be the first Directors
of
the Company.
rectors shall be Three.
XT.
And be it enacted, That the
Quorum
of
a
Meeting of Di-
Q~mm.
XII. And be it enacted, That the Number
of
Directors ofwhich
Committees
Committees appointed by the Directors shall consist shall be not less
Of
than Three nor more than Five, and the Quorum
of
siich Coumittee
shall be
Two.
XIII.
And
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