Midland Railways (Extension to Hitchin, Northampton and Huntingdon Railway) Act 1847
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1847 c. cxxxv |
| Year | 1847 |
ANNO DECIMO & UNDECIMO
VICTORLE REGIN/E
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Cap.
cxxxv.
An Act to enable the Midland Railway Company
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to make a Railway from near Leicester,
Bedford, to Hitchin and to Northampton and
Huntingdon, with Branches ; to enlarge the
Leicester Station of the Midland Railway; and
for other Purposes. [9th July 1847-]
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HERE AS an Act was passed in the Seventh and Eighth
Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An 7
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Act to consolidate the North Midland, Midland Counties, c. 18.
and Birmingham and Derby Junction Railways, whereby the Com-
panies to whom such Railways respectively belonged were united into
One Company under the Name of " The Midland Railway Com-
pany," and the same Railways, and all Branches thereof respectively,
were and are now vested in such united Company: And whereas the
making of Railways from the Midland Railway near Leicester, via
Bedford, to join the Line of the Great Northern Railway as at present
authorized to be made near Hitchin, and also to Northampton and
Huntingdon^ together with Three several Branches from such in-
tended Railways to join the Northampton and Peterborough Branch
[Local.] 20 I of
1782 10° & 11° VICTORLE, Cap.cxxxv.
of the London and North-western Railway, would be attended with
great public Advantage, and it is also expedient that a Road or
Approach should be made to the proposed Railway from the Town
of Market Harborough^ and the present Station of the said Midland
Railway at Leicester enlarged: And whereas the said Midland Rail-
way Company are willing to carry the said proposed Railways, Branch
Railways, Approach, and Enlargement of Station into effect, if autho-
rized by Parliament so to do : 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
piritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assem-
Provisions of bled, and by the Authority of the same, That all the Provisions con-
recited Act tained in the said first-recited Act, so far as the same may be in force
this Act. a^ *be Time of the passing of this Act, and except such of them as are
by this Act repealed, altered, or otherwise provided for, or are incon-
sistent with the Provisions of the " Lands Clauses Consolidation Act,
1845,"
and "Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," shall extend
to this Act, and to the several Purposes
thereof,
and to the several
Matters and Things hereby authorized to be done, as fully and
effectually as if the said Provisions were repeated and re-enacted in
this Act in reference to such Purposes, Matters, and Things, and the
several Railways and other Works by this Act authorized shall when
so made form Part of the Undertaking of the Midland Railways.
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ii.
Ami be it eoacleu, inat tue said "juancis Clauses consolidation
pxten'Sd
to*
Act' 1845'" and the said " Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845,"
this Act. so ^ar as ^ie same are n°t modified by or inconsistent with the Provi-
sions herein-after contained, shall be incorporated with and form Part
of this Act.
Short Title. III. And be it enacted, That in citing this Act in other Acts of
Parliament, and in all legal Documents and Proceedings, it shall be
sufficient to use the Expression " The Midland Railways Extension
Power to
to HitchtUy Northampton, and Huntingdon Railway Act, 1847."
Works
raise Money authorized is Two millions two hundred and fifty thousand Pounds ;
of the Uif- * ^e
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enacte(l5 That it shall be lawful for the said Company to raise
dertaking. for the Purposes of this Act, on the Credit of their Undertaking
and the Revenue arising thereon, any Sum or Sums of Money not
fifty thousand Pounds. hundred
Provisions of V. And be it enacted, That all the Provisions of the " Companies
Stfi9frVlCt Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," with respect to the borrowing of
apply to Money by the Company, and to the Conversion of Money borrowed
borrowed or authorized to be borrowed into Capital, shall be held applicable to
Money
under the borrowing by the said Company of all or any of the Monies by
this Act. tHls Act authorized to be raised by them, and to the Conversion
thereof into Capital: Provided always, that it shall not be lawful for
the said Company to borrow on Mortgage any Sum or Sums of
Money which, together with such Sums as may be due and owing
by the said Company on Mortgage of their Undertaking at the
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