unto the said A.B., his Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, in the penal sum of pounds. The condition of the above obligation is such, that if the said company shall pay to the said A.B., his Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, [at (in case any other place of payment than the principal office of the Company be intended),] on the day of which will be in the year one thou sand eight hundred and sum of the principal pounds, together with interest for pounds per centum per the same at the rate of annum, payable half-yearly on the and day of day of then the above-written obligation is to become void, otherwise to remain in full force. Given under our common seal, this one thousand eight hundred and SCHEDULE (E.) day of Form of Transfer of Mortgage or Bond. I, A.B. of sum of in consideration of the paid to me by G.H. of do hereby transfer to the said G.H, his Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, a certain Bond [or Mort gage] Number Company" to day of and made by "The for securing the sum of interest [or, if such Transfer be by Endorsement, the within security], and all my Right, Estate, and Interest in and to the money thereby secured [and if the Transfer be of a Mortgage, and in and to the tolls, money, and property thereby assigned]. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this day one thousand eight hundred and A.B. "The of SCHEDULE (F.) one of the Proprietors of Company," doth hereby appoint C.D. to be the Proxy of the said A. B., in his absence to vote in his name upon any matter relating to the undertaking proposed at the meeting of the Proprietors of the said Company to be held on the day of next, in such manner as he the said C.D. doth think proper. In witness whereof the said A.B. hath hereunto set his hand [or, if a Corporation, say the common seal of the Corporation], the day of and one thousand eight hundred To wit. SCHEDULE (G.) Form of Conviction. Be it remembered, That on the in the year of our Lord day of A.B. is convicted before us C., D., two of her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of [here describe the offence generally, and the time and place when and where committed], contrary to the [here name the special Act]. Given under our hands and seals, the day and year first above written. Same for Scotland, 8 Vict., cap. 17. C. D. LANDS CLAUSES CONSOLIDATION ACT. 8 VICT. CAP. XVIII. An Act for Consolidating in One Act certain Provisions usually inserted in Acts authorizing the taking of Lands for Undertakings of a Public Nature. [8th May, 1845.] WHEREAS it is expedient to comprise in one general Act sundry provisions usually introduced into Acts of Parliament relative to the acquisition of lands required for undertakings or works of a public nature, and to the compensation to be made for the same, 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: 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 to apply Act shall apply to every undertaking authorized by to all underany Act which shall hereafter be passed, and which shall thorized by authorize the purchase or taking of lands for such under- Acts hereafter taking, and this Act shall be incorporated with such to be passed. Act; and all the clauses and provisions of this Act, save so far as they shall be expressly varied or excepted takings au Interpreta 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 of every other Act which shall be incorporated with such Act, form part of such Act, and be construed together therewith as forming one Act. And with respect to the construction of this Act and tions in this of Acts to be incorporated therewith, be it enacted as follows: Act: "the special Act:" "prescribed:" II. The expression "the special Act," used in this Act, shall be construed to mean any Act which shall be hereafter passed which shall authorize the taking of lands for the undertaking to which the same relates, and with which this Act shall be so incorporated as aforesaid; and the word "prescribed," used in this Act in reference to any matter herein stated, shall be construed to refer to such matter as the same shall be prescribed or provided for in the special Act; and the sentence in which such word shall occur shall be construed as if, instead of the word "prescribed," the expression "prescribed for that purpose in the special Act" had been used; and the "the Works." expression "the works" or "the undertaking" shall mean the works or undertaking of whatever nature, which shall by the special Act be authorized to be exe"Promoters cuted; and the expression "the promoters of the underof the Under- taking," shall mean the parties, whether company, undertakers, commissioners, trustees, corporations, or private persons, by the special Act empowered to execute such works or undertaking. taking." Interpreta and the special Act: III. The following words and expressions, both in tions in this this and the special Act, shall have the several meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something either in the subject or the context repugnant to such construction; (that is to say,) Number: Gender: "Lands:" Words importing the singular number only shall include the plural number; and words importing the plural number only shall include the singular number: Words importing the masculine gender only shall include females: The word "Lands" shall extend to messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments of any tenure: The word "Lease" shall include an agreement for a "Lease:" lease: The word "Month" shall mean calendar month: "Month:" The expression "Superior Courts" shall mean her "Superior Majesty's Superior Courts of Record at Westminster courts:" or Dublin, as the case may require: The word "Oath" shall include affirmation in the "Oath:" case of Quakers, or other declaration lawfully substituted for an oath in the case of any other persons exempted by law from the necessity of taking an oath: The word "County" shall include any riding or other "County:" like division of a county, and shall also include county of a city or county of a town: riff:" The word "Sheriff" shall include under sheriff, or “the Sheother legally competent deputy; and where any matter in relation to any lands is required to be done by any sheriff, or by any clerk of the peace, the expression "the Sheriff," or the expression "the Clerk of the Peace," shall in such case be construed "the Clerk of to mean the sheriff or the clerk of the peace of the the Peace:" county, city, borough, liberty, cinque port, or place where such lands shall be situate; and if the lands in question, being the property of one and the same party, be situate not wholly in one county, city, borough, liberty, cinque port, or place, the same expression shall be construed to mean the sheriff or clerk of the peace of any county, city, borough, liberty, cinque port, or place where any part of such lands shall be situate: The word "Justices" shall mean justices of the peace “Justices :" acting for the county, city, liberty, cinque port, or place where the matter requiring the cognizance of any such justice shall arise, and who shall not be interested in the matter; and where such matter shall arise in respect of lands being the property of one and the same party, situate not wholly in any one county, city, borough, liberty, cinque port, or place, the same shall mean a justice acting for the county, city, borough, liberty, cinque port, or place where any part of such lands shall be situate, and who shall not be interested in such matter; and where any matter shall be authorized or required to |