WORKS and Railway: provisions as to Construction of, marks, &c., Power to Company to take temporary use or occupation of Lands during Arches, Viaducts, Tunnels, to be marked on deposited plans, Errors or omissions in Plans or Books of Reference of Railway, how to Clerks of Peace, &c., to receive Plans of alterations and preserve and Certified Copies of Plans, &c., to be evidence, Works not to be proceeded with until Plans, &c., of all alterations ap- vii. 8 vii. 9 vii. 10 Deviations from deposited Plans and Sections; see Deviations. Works for drainage of lands, &c., in Ireland, and protection of Naviga- vii. 25 et seq. Works which may be executed for Railway, &c., . vii. 16 Inclined Planes, Tunnels, Embankments, Aqueducts, Roads, Bridges, Warehouses, Offices and other Buildings, Wharfs, Apparatus, &c., General power for making, maintenance, alteration, and using of vii. 16 But satisfaction for damages to be made, vii. 16 Shore or River Works below High Water Mark not to be executed without consent of Admiralty and Commissioners of Woods and Forests, Or Works may be abated and removed, at cost of Company, recover. Alteration of Water and Gas pipes, &c., of Houses and Companies, Under superintendence of Companies, &c., and limitations, vii. 18, 20, 22 Penalty for obstructing supply of Water or Gas, vii. 17 vii. 18 vii. 14, 66 On application by either party, after 14 days' notice to the other, On application of Road Surveyor or two householders, and after ten Justices may order repair of Bridge, Approach, Fence, Gate, or other Penalty on Company for not complying with order of Justices, £5 a day, vii. 65 adjoining Railway (see under Accommodation), WORKING ARRANGEMENTS between Companies : Common Terminus, or Line of Rails used in Common by different Com- Board of Trade, on application of one of the parties, to decide dis- putes as to working joint Traffic in such cases, iv. 11 iv. 11 See under Canals, Carriages and Engines, Tolls, "Trafic, &c. RAILWAY ACTS, &c. MARKS OF REFERENCE. The Roman Numbers, I. II. III. &c., in the Notes and Index, refer to the respective lets distinguished by those Numbers, which are printed at the head of each page. The Figures, 1. 2. 3. &c., refer to the Sections of the Acts, also printed at the head of re pages. Thus, the Marks "XI. 16," in the note in page 2, refer to Act XI, section 16:- I.-RAILWAY CONVEYANCE OF MAILS. 1 & 2 VICT. CAP. 98. An Act to provide for the Conveyance of the Mails by Railways. [14th August, 1838.] WHEREAS it is expedient that Provision should be made Conveyance y Law for the Conveyance of the Mails by Railways of Mails. a reasonable Rate of Charge to the Public: Be it acted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and ith the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual nd Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament ssembled, and by the Authority of the same, That in Postmaster 1 Cases of Railways already made or in progress, or to require Railhereafter made, within the United Kingdom, by way Com hich Passengers or Goods shall be conveyed in or upon vey the Mails arriages drawn or impelled by the Power of Steam, or by officers, y locomotive or stationary Engines, or animal or other in such way wer whatever, it shall be lawful for the Postmaster times as he For the sake of brevity, the words "by the Queen's Most Excellent Tajesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temoral, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authoty of the same," which are used at the commencement of every statute, will be repeated in these pages, in the acts following this. The place of these rds will be indicated by the marks ... at the commencement of each act. B General may pany to con and Post and at such may direct: Notice. and Com pany to do it, faction. General, by Notice in Writing under his Hand delivered to the Company of Proprietors of any such Railway, to require that the Mails or Post Letter Bags shall, from and after the Day to be named in any such Notice, (being not less than Twenty-eight Days from the Delivery thereof,) be conveyed and forwarded by such Company on their Railway, either by the ordinary Trains of Carriages, or by special Trains, as need may be, at such Hours or Times in the Day or Night as the Postmaster General shall direct, together with the Guards appointed and employed by the Postmaster General in charge thereof, and any other Officers of the Post Office: and to his satis- thereupon the said Company shall, from and after the Day to be named in such Notice, at their own Costs, provide sufficient Carriages and Engines on such Railways, for the Conveyance of such Mails and Post Letter Bags, to the Satisfaction of the Postmaster General, and receive, take up, carry, and convey, by such ordinary or special Trains of Carriages or otherwise, as Need may be, all such Mails or Post Letter Bags as shall for that Purpose be tendered to them, or any of their Officers, Servants, or Agents, by any Officer of the Post Office; and also receive, take up, carry, and convey, in and upon the Carriages carrying such Mails or Post Letter Bags, the Guards in charge thereof, and any other Officers of the Post Office, and shall receive, take up, deliver, and leave such Mails or Post Letter Bags, Time, Speed, Guards, and Officers at such Places in the Line of such Stoppages, to be regulated Railway, on such Days, at such Hours or Times in the Day or Night, and subject to all such reasonable Regulations and Restrictions as to Speed of travelling, Places, Times, and Duration of Stoppages, and Times of Arrival, as the Postmaster General shall in that Behalf from Provisos : Time to Time order or direct: Provided always, that Speed not to the Rate of Speed to be required shall in no Case exceed by Post Office, for their Officers. exceed maxi a Under an act of 1847 (10 & 11 Vic. c. 85,) the Post Office may also send mails without guards or other officers in charge of them: (XI. 16.) Railway; Months he maximum Rate of Speed prescribed by the Directors mum rate of f such Railway or Railways for the Conveyance of 'assengers by their First-class Trains"; but that no and Six Iteration in the Rate of Speed of any Train by which notice before te Mails shall be conveyed shall be made until Six Company alendar Months previous Notice shall be given to the alteration. ostmaster General of any such intended Alteration. make any may require 2. And be it enacted, That' it shall be lawful for the Post Office ostmaster General (if he shall see fit) to require that exclusive use e whole of the Inside of any Carriage used on any riage. ilway for the Conveyance of Mails or Post Letter gs of a Mail Car may require Sorting Let 3.... The Company of Proprietors of any such Railway Post Office ll, on being required so to do by the Postmaster separate Carneral, provide and furnish (in addition to the Carriages for ges aforesaid) a separate Carriage or separate Car-ters. ges, fitted up as the Postmaster General, or such rson as he shall nominate in that Behalf, shall direct, the Purpose of sorting Letters therein; and shall forrd the same Carriage or Carriages by their Railway, such Hours or Times, and subject to all such reason Regulations as aforesaid, as the Postmaster General 11 in that Behalf order or direct; and such Company Proprietors shall receive, take up, carry, and convey, any such last-mentioned Carriage or Carriages, all The provisions relating to speed are altered, and the powers of the Poster General extended, by § 11 of 7 & 8 Vic. c. 85, (V. 11.) he words "And be it enacted that" will not be repeated at the beginning e various sections in which they were used before the passing of Lord gham's act of 13 Vic. c. 21, (1850,) "for shortening the Language used ts of Parliament;" by which act (§ 2,) these words are for the future ased with, and they have accordingly, since 1850, ceased to be used in the The following are the words of § 2 of that act:-"2. Be it enacted, all Acts shall be divided into Sections, if there be more Enactments than which Sections shall be deemed to be substantive Enactments, without introductory Words." es. place of these introductory words, herein omitted at the beginning of ctions in which they were used before that act came into operation, ly, from the commencement of the session next after June, 1850,) will icated by the marks ... 1, (p. 2.) |