purposes of such road, or, if a private road, the same shall be paid to the owner thereof: Provided always, that, in determining any such question with regard to a turnpike road, the said justices shall have regard to and shall make full allowance for any tolls that may have been paid by the company on such road in the course of the using thereof. LIX. When the company shall intend to apply for the consent of two justices, as herein before provided, so as to authorize them to carry the railway across any highway other than a public carriage road on the level, they shall, fourteen days at least previous to the holding of the petty sessions at which such application is intended to be made, cause notice of such intended application to be given in some newspaper circulating in the county, and also to be affixed upon the door of the parish church of the parish in which such crossing is intended to be made, or, if there be no such church, some other place to which notices are usually affixed; and if it appear, to any two or more justices acting for the district in which such highway, at the proposed crossing thereof, is situate, and assembled in petty sessions, after such notice as aforesaid, that the railway can, consistently with a due regard to the public safety and convenience, be carried across such highway on the level, it shall be lawful for such justices to consent that the same may be so carried accordingly. LX. If either party shall feel aggrieved by the determination of such justices upon any such application as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for such party, in like manner, and subject to the like conditions as are hereinafter provided in the case of appeals, in respect of penalties and forfeitures, to appeal to the quarter sessions of the county or place in which the cause of appeal shall have arisen; and it shall be lawful for the justices in such quarter sessions, upon the hearing of such appeal, either to confirm or quash the determination, or to make such other order in regard to the method of carrying the railway across such highway as aforesaid as to them shall seem fit, and to make such order concerning the costs both of the original application and of the appeal as to them shall seem reasonable. LXI. If the railway shall cross any highway other than a public carriageway on the level, the company shall at their own expense make and at all times maintain convenient ascents and descents and other convenient approaches, with handrails or other fences, and shall, if such highway be a bridleway, erect and at all times maintain good and sufficient gates, and, if the same shall be a footway, good and sufficient gates or stiles, on each side of the railway where the highway shall communicate therewith. LXII. If, where the railway shall cross any highway on the level, the company fail to make convenient ascents and descents or other convenient approaches, and such handrails, fence, gates, and stiles as they are hereinbefore required to make, it shall be lawful for two justices, on the application of the surveyor of roads, or of any two householders within the parish or district where such crossing shall be situate, after not less than ten days' notice to the company to order the company to make such ascent and descent or other approach, or such handrails, fences, gates, or stiles as aforesaid, within a period to be limited for that purpose by such justices; and, if the company fail to comply with such order, they shall forfeit five pounds for every day that they fail so to do; and it shall be lawful for the justices by whom any such penalty is imposed to order the whole or any part thereof APPENDIX. STATUTES. The Railways' Clauses Consolidation Act. pike Roads. Screen for roads to be made, if required by the to be applied, in such manner and by such person as they think fit, in executing the work in respect whereof such penalty was incurred. the LXIII. If the commissioners or trustees of any turnpike road, or surveyor of any highway, apprehend danger to the passengers on such road in consequence of horses being frightened by the sight of Screens for Turn the engines or carriages travelling upon the railway, it shall be lawful for such commissioners, or trustees, or surveyor, after giving fourteen days' notice to the company, to apply to the Board of Trade with respect thereto; and if it shall appear to the said Board that such danger might be obviated or lessened by the construction of any works in the nature of a screen near to or adjoining the side of such road, it shall be lawful for them, if they shall think fit, to certify the works necessary or proper to be executed by the company for the purpose of obviating or lessening such danger, and by such certi ficate to require the company to execute such works within a certain time after the service of such certificate, to be appointed by the said board. Board of Trade. Penalty for failing to construct. Construction of Bridges. Justices to have power to order repair of bridges, &c. Board of Trade empowered to modify the construction of certain roads, bridges, &c., where a strict compliance with the act is impossible or inconvenient. LXIV. Where, by any such certificate as aforesaid, the company shall have been required to execute any such work in the nature of a screen, they shall execute and complete the same within the period appointed for that purpose in such certificate; and, if they fail so to do, they shall forfeit to the said commissioners, or trustees, or surveyor, five pounds for every day during which such works shall remain uncompleted beyond the period so appointed for their completion; and it shall be lawful for the justices by whom any such penalty is imposed to order the whole or any part thereof to be laid out in executing the work in respect whereof such penalty was incurred. LXV. Where, under the provisions of this or the special act, or any act incorporated therewith, the company are required to maintain or keep in repair any bridge, fence, approach, gate, or other work executed by them, it shall be lawful for two justices, on the application of the surveyor of roads, or of any two householders of the parish or district where such work may be situate, complaining that any such work is out of repair, after not less than ten days' notice to the company, to order the company to put such work into complete repair within a period to be limited for that purpose by such justices; and, if the company fail to comply with such order, they shall forfeit five pounds for every day that they fail so to do; and it shall be lawful for the justices by whom any such penalty is imposed to order the whole or any part thereof to be applied, in such manner and by such persons as they think fit, in putting such work into repair. LXVI. And whereas expense might frequently be avoided, and public convenience promoted, by a reference to the Board of Trade upon the construction of public works of an engineering nature connected with the railway, where a strict compliance with the previsions of this or the special act might be impossible, or attended with inconvenience to the company, and without adequate advan tage to the public; be it enacted, That, in case any difference in re gard to the construction, alteration, or restoration of any road or bridge, or other public work of an engineering nature, required by the provisions of this or the special act, shall arise between the com pany and any trustees, commissioners, surveyors, or other persons having the control of or being authorized by law to enforce the con struction of such road, bridge, or work, it shall be lawful for either party, after giving fourteen days' notice in writing of their intention so to do to the other party, to apply to the Board of Trade to decide upon the proper manner of constructing, altering, or restoring such road, bridge, or other work; and it shall be lawful for the Board of Trade, if they shall think fit, to decide the same accordingly, and to authorize, by certificate in writing, any arrangement or mode of construction in regard to any such road, bridge, or other work which shall appear to them either to be in substantial compliance with the provisions of this and the special act, or to be calculated to afford equal or greater accommodation to the public using such road, bridge, or other work; and after any such certificate shall have been given by the Board of Trade, the road, bridge, or other work therein mentioned shall be constructed by the company in conformity with the terms of such certificate, and, being so constructed, shall be deemed to be constructed in conformity with the provisions of this and the special act: Provided always, that no such certificate shall be granted by the Board of Trade unless they shall be satisfied that existing private rights or interests will not be injuriously affected thereby. LXVII. And be it enacted, That all regulations, certificates, notices, and other documents in writing purporting to be made or issued by or by the authority of the Board of Trade, and signed by some officer appointed for that purpose by the Board of Trade, shall, for the purposes of this and the special act, and any act incorporated therewith, be deemed to have been so made and issued, and that without proof of the authority of the person signing the same, or of the signature thereto, which matters shall be presumed until the contrary be proved; and service of any such document, by leaving the same at one of the principal offices of the Railway Company, or by sending the same by post addressed to the secretary at such office, shall be deemed good service upon the company; and all notices and other documents required by this or the special act to be given to or laid before the Board of Trade shall be delivered at, or sent by post addressed to, the office of the Board of Trade in London. And with respect to works for the accommodation of lands adjoin- Works for Protecing the railway, be it enacted as follows : tion and Accommodation of Lands. Gates, bridges, LXVIII. The company shall make and at all times thereafter Also sufficient posts, rails, hedges, ditches, mounds, or other fences fences; m APPENDIX. STATUTES. The Railways' Clauses Consolidation Act. drains; watering-places. Differences as to accommodation works to be Execution of works by owners on default by the company. rails, and other fences shall be made forthwith after the taking of any such lands, if the owners thereof shall so require, and the said other works as soon as conveniently may be; Also all necessary arches, tunnels, culverts, drains, or other pas sages, either over or under or by the sides of the railway, of such dimensions as will be sufficient at all times to convey the water as clearly from the lands lying near or affected by the railway as before the making of the railway, or as nearly so as may be; and such works shall be made from time to time as the railway works proceed; Also proper watering-places for cattle where, by reason of the railway, the cattle of any person occupying any lands lying near thereto shall be deprived of access to their former watering places; and such watering-places shall be so made as to be at all times as sufficiently supplied with water as theretofore, and as if the railway had not been made, or as nearly so as may be; and the company shall make all necessary watercourses and drains for the purpose of conveying water to the said watering places; Provided always, that the company shall not be required to make such accommodation works in such a manner as would prevent or obstruct the working or using of the railway, nor to make any ae commodation works with respect to which the owners and occupiers of the lands shall have agreed to receive and shall have been paid compensation instead of the making them. LXIX. If any difference arise respecting the kind or number of any such accommodation works, or the dimensions or sufficiency thereof, settled by justices. or respecting the maintaining thereof, the same shall be determined by two justices; and such justices shall also appoint the time within which such works shall be commenced and executed by the company. LXX. If for fourteen days next after the time appointed by such justices for the commencement of any such works the company shall fail to commence such works, or, having commenced, shall fail to proceed diligently to execute the same in a sufficient manner, it shall be lawful for the party aggrieved by such failure himself to execute such works or repairs; and the reasonable expenses thereof shall be repaid by the company to the party by whom the same shall so have been executed; and, if there be any dispute about such expenses, the same ahall be settled by two justices: Provided always, that no such owner or occupier or other person shall obstruct or injure the railway, or any of the works connected therewith, for a longer time nor use them in any other manner than is unavoidably necessary for the execution or repair of such accommodation works. Power to owners of land to make additional accommodation works. Such works to be constructed under the superintendence of the company's engineer. LXXI. If any of the owners or occupiers of lands affected by such railway shall consider the accommodation works made by the com pany, or directed by such justices to be made by the company, insufficient for the commodious use of their respective lands, it shall be lawful for any such owner or occupier, at any time, at his own expense, to make such further works for that purpose as he shall think necessary, and as shall be agreed to by the company, or, in case of difference, as shall be authorized by two justices. LXXII. If the company so desire, all such last-mentioned accommodation works shall be constructed under the superintendence of their engineer, and according to plans and specifications to be submitted to and approved by such engineer; nevertheless the company 179 APPENDIX. STATUTES. shall not be entitled to require, either that plans should be adopted which would involve a greater expense than that incurred in the execution of similar works by the company, or that the plans selected should be executed in a more expensive manner than that adopted The Railways in similar cases by the company. Clauses Consolidation Act. Accommodation works not to be LXXIII. The company shall not be compelled to make any further or additional accommodation works for the use of owners and occupiers of land adjoining the railway after the expiration of the prescribed period, or, if no period be prescribed, after five years from required after the completion of the works, and the opening of the railway for public use. LXXIV. Until the company shall have made the bridges or other proper communications which they shall, under the provisions herein, or in the special act, or any act incorporated therewith, contained, have been required to make between lands intersected by the railway, and no longer, the owners and occupiers of such lands, and any other persons whose right of way shall be affected by the want of such communication, and their respective servants, may at all times freely pass and repass, with carriages, horses and other animals, directly (but not otherwise) across the part of the railway made in or through their respective lands, solely for the purpose of occupying the same lands, or for the exercise of such right of way, and so as not to obstruct the passage along the railway, or to damage the same; nevertheless, if the owner or occupier of any such lands have in his arrangements with the company received or agreed to receive compensation for or on account of any such communications, instead of the same being formed, such owner or occupier, or those claiming under him, shall not be entitled so to cross the railway. LXXV. If any person omit to shut and fasten any gate set up at either side of the railway, for the accommodation of the owners or occupiers of the adjoining lands, as soon as he, and the carriage, cattle or other animals, under his care, have passed through the same, he shall forfeit for every such offence any sum not exceeding forty shillings. years. owners to be allowed to cross tion works are until accommoda made. Penalty on per fasten gates. sons omitting to Branch Railways. Power to parties to make private communicating LXXVI. And be it enacted, That this or the special act shall not passed in the sixth year of the reign of her present Majesty, inti- 5 & 6 Vict. c. 55. |