affected by such deviation: Provided always, That it shall be lawful for the company to deviate from the said levels to a further extent without such consent as aforesaid, by lowering solid embankments or viaducts, provided that the requisite height of headway prescribed by Act of Parliament be left for roads, streets, or canals passing under the same.

3. And be it enacted, That where in any place it is intended to carry the railway on an arch or arches, or other viaduct, as marked on the said plan or section, the same shall be made accordingly; and where a tunnel is marked on the said plan or section as intended to be made at any place, the same shall be made accordingly, unless the owners, lessees, and occupiers of the land in or through which such tunnel is intended to be made shall consent that the same shall not be so made: Provided always, That notice of every petty sessions to be holden for the purpose of obtaining such consent as is herein before required, shall, fourteen days previous to the holding of such petty sessions, be given in some newspaper circulating in the county, and also be affixed upon the churchdoor of the parish in which such deviation or alteration is intended to be made, or if there be no church, some other place to which notices are usually affixed; and provided also, That, for the purpose of consenting to any deviations from the said sections, and to any tunnelling or arching as aforesaid, the word "owners shall be deemed and taken to mean such persons as are herein capacitated to agree for the sale of, and to convey land for the making of the said railway; and the consent of such persons, with or without the consent of any other persons interested as owners in the said lands, shall be deemed and taken to be sufficient for such purposes.

curves.

4. And be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful Limiting the for the said company to deviate from or alter alteration of the gradients, curves, tunnels, or other engineering works described in the said plan or

Ordered, That the said orders be declared standing orders, and that they be entered on the roll of standing orders of this House, and printed and published, to the end all persons concerned may the better take notice of the same.

Emendat. per Ord. 7° Augusti, 1845.

them, or may elect a new body of directors, or
directors to supply the places of those not continued
in office, the directors appointed by this Act being
eligible as members of such new body."

FURTHER STANDING ORDERS.

Ordered, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled,

to be re

1. That all private bills relating to railways, which Amended
shall have been opposed, and in which any railway bills
amendments shall have been made in the com- printed.
mittee, shall be reprinted as amended previously
to the third reading, unless the chairman of the
committee shall certify that the reprinting of
such bill is unnecessary.

2. That in case any proprietor of such company
who, by himself or any person authorized to
act for him in that behalf, shall have dissented
at the meeting called in pursuance of the afore-
said standing order, No. 5 (page 86), to empower
any company already constituted by Act of Par-
liament to execute any work other than that for
which it was originally established, such pro-
prietor shall be permitted, on petitioning the
House, to be heard by the committee on stand-
ing orders on the compliance with the standing
orders, by himself, his agents and witnesses, or
by the committee on the proposed bill, by
himself, his counsel or agents, and witnesses.
3. That the standing orders with respect to com-
mittees on opposed bills (page 84) of the three
classes above mentioned be extended and appli-
cable to all opposed bills, except estate bills,
name bills, naturalization and divorce bills.

4. That a copy of every railway bill as proposed.
to be amended in the committee shall be depo-
sited in the Board of Trade two days before
the same shall be reported to the House, and
also a copy of every bill as amended in the
committee shall be deposited at the Board of
Trade two days before the same shall be read a
third time in the house.

Ordered, That the said orders be declared standing orders, and that they be entered on the roll of standing orders of this House, and printed and published, to the end all persons concerned may the better take notice of the same.

Emendat. per Ord. 7° Augusti, 1845.

RAILWAY CLAUSES CONSOLIDATION ACT.

8 VICT. CAP. XX.

An Act for consolidating in One Act certain Provisions usually inserted in Acts authorizing the making of [8th May, 1845.]

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Railways. WHEREAS it is expedient to comprise in one general Act sundry provisions usually introduced into Acts of Parliament authorizing the construction of railways, and that, as well for the purpose of avoiding the necessity of repeating such provisions in each of the several Acts relating to such undertakings, as for ensuring greater uniformity in the provisions themselves: And whereas a bill is now pending in Parliament, intituled "An Act "for consolidating in one Act certain provisions usually "inserted in Acts authorizing the taking of lands for undertakings of a public nature," and which is intended to be called "The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845" 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 Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That this Act shall apply to Operation of every railway which shall by any Act which shall this Act conhereafter be passed be authorized to be constructed, and future railthis Act shall be incorporated with such Act; and all ways. the clauses and provisions of this Act, save so far as they shall be expressly varied or excepted by any such Act, shall apply to the undertaking authorized thereby, so far as the same shall be applicable to such undertaking, and shall, as well as the clauses and provisions

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fined to