General Railway Acts: A Collection of the Public General Acts for the Regulation of Railways : Including the Companies, Lands, and Railways Clauses Consolidation Acts, Complete, 1830-1866, with a Copious Index

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Waterlow & Sons, 1872 - 525 pages

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Page 571 - To any offence relating to railways mentioned in section thirtyfive of the Act of the session of the twenty-fourth and twentyfifth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter ninety-seven, intituled " An Act to consolidate and amend " the statute law of England and Ireland relating to malicious "injuries to property;" and (3.) To any indictable offence.
Page 464 - An Act to attach certain Conditions to the Construction of future Railways authorized or to be authorized by any act of the present or succeeding sessions of Parliament, and for other purposes relating to Railways...
Page 524 - London, (the act of God, the queen's enemies, fire, and all and every other dangers and accidents of the seas, rivers, and navigation, of whatever nature and kind soever, excepted,) unto order or to assigns, he or they paying freight for the said goods at 51.
Page 560 - Bill, so far as it relates to such order, may be referred to a Select Committee, and the petitioner shall be allowed to appear and oppose as in the case of private bills...
Page 547 - ... and such fees may be taken in respect of the taxation as may be fixed in pursuance of the enactments relating to the fees to be demanded and taken in the offices of such masters, and all those enactments, including the enactments relating to the taking of fees by means of stamps, shall extend to the fees in respect of the said taxation.
Page 521 - Where no other qualification shall be prescribed by the special Act, every Auditor shall have at least one share in the undertaking ; and he shall not hold any office in the Company, nor be in any other manner interested in its concerns, except as a shareholder.
Page 519 - ... a penalty not exceeding five pounds for every day during which such default continues...
Page 520 - Any inspector may examine upon oath the officers and agents of the company in relation to its business, and may administer such...
Page 567 - Such notice shall be in such form and shall contain such particulars as the Board of Trade may from time to time direct, and shall be sent by the earliest practicable post after the accident takes place.
Page 520 - Trade may require for the purpose of showing that the applicants have...

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