The Amended General Orders of the Commissioners, Schedule of APPENDICES OF PRECEDENTS OF APPLICATIONS, ANSWERS, AND AND STATUTES. BY J. H. BALFOUR BROWNE, OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE AND MIDLAND CIRCUIT, BARRISTER-AT-LAW; REGISTRAR TO AUTHOR OF 'THE LAW OF CARRIERS,' 'THE LAW OF RATING,' 'THE MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE LONDON: STEVENS AND HAYNES, BELL YARD, TEMPLE BAR. 1876. PREFACE. THE author, in submitting this book to the public and the legal profession, would take this opportunity of explaining why, in his opinion, such a work is called for. Soon after the passing of the Regulation of Railways Act, 1873, the Railway Commissioners made and issued a series of General Orders for "the regulation of proceedings before them." When these orders were made public in pursuance of the Act of Parliament, the Railway Commissioners had not been called upon to exercise their jurisdiction; and notwithstanding the care with which these General Orders were framed, it was very soon found necessary, in practice, to modify some of them in certain important particulars. Before that was done, however, Mr. Lely had published his careful little work on "The Regulation of Railways Act, 1873," and had incorporated in his book the "General Orders, Forms, and Table of Fees," which were, very soon after the publication of his work, modified by the Commissioners. In several important matters, therefore, Mr. Lely's work is misleading. Almost at the same time a work on the Practice before the Railway Commissioners, which had been compiled by the late Mr. Junner, was offered to the public; but as at the time it was written the Railway Commissioners had only been asked to hear and determine three cases, as there was really no "practice" before the Commissioners, |