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IN PARLIAMENT—SESSION 1896. YSTRADYFODWG URBAN DISTRICT JL COUNCIL (GAS AND WATER.) (Purchase by Compulsion or Agreement and Transfer of the Undertabings of the Yetrad Gas and Water Company to the Ystradyfodwg Urban District Council; Special Directions to Arbitrators Winding-up and Dissolution of Company; Power to District Council to f carry on Undertakings Conversion, Redemp- tion or Extinction of Debenture Stock, &c. Power to supply Gas and Water Power to Break Up Streets and Otherwise in Connec- tion with Supply of Water and Manufacture and Supply of Gas and Residual Products; Power to Continue and Maintain Existing Waterworks and Construct New wateruorks Power to Divert and Use Waters Purchase of and Interference with lands, Streams, Waters, L-, Exemption from Section 92 of Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 Power to Hold Lands for Protection of Waterworks; Bye-laws, Rules, and Regula- tions Rates, Rents, and Charges Borrowing and other Powers Contracts with Local Authorities; Alteration, Amendment, and Incorporation of Acts and other Purposes.) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that ap- plication is intended to be made to Parliament In the ensuing Session by the Ystradyfodwg Urban District Council, being the Urban Sanitary Authority for the district of Ystradyfodwg, in the county of Glamorgan (hereinafter referred to as the District Council "), for leave to bring in a Bill for the following, amone other, purposes (that is to say) 1. To authorise and empower the District Council to purchase by agreement or compulsion, and to provide for the transfer to and vesting in the District Council of the gas and water undertakings, or either of them, and the works, waters, streams, mains, pipes, machinery, lands. buildings, plant, easements, real and personal property, rights, powers, privileges, and authori- ties, or some of them belonging to, or held, or nsed, or exercisable by the Yatrad Gas and Water Oompany (hereinafter called "thecom- pany ") for such consideration, upon such terms, pecuniary or otherwise, and conditions, and sub- ject to such restrictions and stipulations (if any) as may have been or may be agreed to between the District Council and the Company, or as may be settled by arbitration, or defined in the Bill, or prescribed by Parliament, and to authorise the Company to sell and transfer their undertakings, property, and rights accordingly. 2. To authorise the District Council and the Company, from time to time, to enter into and carry into effect contracts, agreements, and arrangements for or with respect to all or any of the matters aforesaid, and all matters inci- dental thereto, and to sanction, confirm, and give effect to any such contract, agreement, or arrange- ment already, or which, prior to the passing of the Bill, may be made or entered into. 3. To require the arbitrators in the event of the consideration or value being determined by arbitration to have regard, amongst other matters, to the following matters, or some of them:—The adequacy and efficiency of the present sources of water supply, and of the reservoirs, filter-beds, filtration arrangements, wells, mains, condnits, pipes, machinery, and plant of the Company to meet present and future requirements the probable necessity of the future introduction of a new source of supply of water, or new or improved waterworks, and the deductions from any compensation claimed by the Company which may in the opinion of the arbitrators be reasonably made in respect of any insufficiency of the present storage or filtration of th,! C(,nipany, or in respect of the provision of ou^pioiuein-itiy supplies or water, ana to prescribe j various other matters and things to be taken into consideration by the arbitrators. 4. To provide for the maintenance of the gas- works and waterworks by the Company and the conduct of the undertakings until the transfer thereof to the District Council the transfer of books, deeds, and documents; the payment of debts the continuance of actions; compensation to officers and servants and other incidental matters. 5. To provide for the dissolution and winding up of the Company, and the payment of the debts and liabilities of the Company, ind for the distribution of the purchase money or allocation of the annuities or other securities or considera- ion to be issued in payment for, or satisfaction of, the transfer of the said undertakings or any part thereof, and of their other assets respectively, amongst the shareholders or other parsons entitled thereto. 6. To empower the District Council to convert by agreement any debentures or debenture stock of the Company into debentures, debenture stock, or other security of the District Council, and to confer on the District Council power to redeem and cancel any outstanding debentures or deben- ture stock of the Company as from such date and at such price or on such terms as may be defined in the BilJ. 7. To authorise the District Counoil to maintain and carry on the gas and water undertakings of the Company or either of them, and from time to time enlarge, improve, alter, renew, and repair the existing gasworks and waterworks of the Company to be acquired as aforesaid, upon the lands upon which the same are situate, and to erect and maintain additional gasworks, and to manufacture and store gas and materials used in and about the manufacture of gas, and to convert, treat, and manufacture and store all or any pro- I ducts resulting or arising from the manufacture of I gas. 8. To empower the District Council for the purposes of the undertakings when transferred to them and for the general purposes connected with their gas and water undertakings, and the supply of gas other than the manufacture of gas or con- version of gas or residual products or storage of gas, to purohase by agreement and to take on lease and hold lands, houses, tenements, and hereditaments, and easements, rights of way, and other rights in, over, or affecting lauds and houses, and to sell, Iea3e, or otherwise dispose of any lands and houses for the time being belonging to them and not required for the purpose of the undertakings. 9. To empower the District Council to supply gas and water respectively for public and private purposes within the limits of nupply of the Com- pany, defined by the Ystrad Gas and Water Acts, 1868 and 1874, and the Ystrad Gas and Water Orders, 1872 and 1883, respective'^ and for that purpose to break up the soil and pave- ment of aud temporarily or permanently to stop up and interfere with streets, roads, paths, highways, passages, places, sewers, drains, I bridges, railways, tramways, and telegraphic, telephonic, and electric lines and apoaratus I within the limits of supply, to Jay, maintain, repair, and renew mains, pipes, and other works, apparatus, and appliances, and to purchase, sell, let, hire, or otherwise deal in, and to fix and repair pipes, valves, meters, fittings, and other apparatus, artioles, and things used in the sale, supply, distribution, and consumption of gas and water, and to acquire, hold, and use patent rights, and to have and exercise all or any of the powers, rights, authorities, and privileges of the Company in as full and ample a manner in all respects as the Company could or might lawfully nave exercised the same respectively, and also sncn further or other power,?, rights, authori- ties, and privileges with respect to the several matters aforesaid, and the supplying of gas and water as may be necessary, propsr, or con- venient, and to extend to the District Council ali or some of the provisions of the Ystrad Gas urul Water Acts 1863. 1874 and 1890/ and the Ystrad Gas and Water Orders, 1872, 1879, and 1883. 10. To authorise the District Council to mam- tam, improve, alter, enlarge, and continue, or if they think fit, to discontinue all or any of the existing waterworks of the Company, and to construct and maintain m tho lines Tnd according to the levels shown upon the plans and sections hereinafter mentioned, the several additional waterworks or other works hereinafter described, or some or one of them (that ia 1: .— (1) An embankment for the I purpose of j raising the level of the water of Lake Llynfawr, to be situate wholly in the hamlet or township of Rhigos and parish of Ystradyfodwg, in tho county of Glamorgan, to be placed across the stream (a tributary of the Nant Gwercloch Brook), flowing out of the north-easterly end of the existing lake, at a point 25 yards or there- abouts north-east of the outlet of the lake, and to commence on the westerly side of the I said stream at a point distant 222 yards or thereabouts, measured in a north-westerly direction from tbe centre of tbe said stream. 44-- Iparlianwitiarn fiotirts. and to extend thence in a straight line in a south-easterly direction across the said stream, and to terminate on the easterly side of the said stream at a point distant 2.40 yards or thereabouts. measured in a south- easterly direction from the centr of the said stream from which Embankment the lake when raised wiil extend in a souch-eante-ly direction to a point distant 460 yards or thereabouts, measured from the centr,3 line of the Embankment at its point of inter- section with the said stream. (2) An aqueduct, tunnel, conduit, or lines of pipes, to commence in the hamlet or township of Rbigos, in the said parish of Ystradyfodwg, in the existing Lake, at the extreme south-eastern end thereof, at a point distant 420 yards or thereabouts from the outlet of the sa;d Lake, measured in a south-easterly direct inn, and to terminate in the said parish of Y srady. fodwg, in the Nant Dyrysiog Brook, at a point distant 60 yards or thereabouts north- west of the upper watertall on the said brook above the Blaeu Rhondda Colliery tramway, measured up the said brook. (3) Filter beds and two service reservoirs, situate wholly in the said parish of Ystrady- fodwg, to be constructed partly in the enclosure numbered 30 on the Ordnance map of the said parish belonging or reputed to belong to the Earl of Dunraven and now in the occupation of William Morgan, and partly on mountain pasture land immediately adjoming the abo«e-m*ntioned enclosure to the northward thereof, also belonging to Lord Dunraven, and in the occupation of William Morgan. The said reservoirs will each have an area of about 12.500 square feet. and a capacity together of 1,500,000 gallons. (4) Au aqueduct, conduit, or line of pips. (No. 1), situate wholly in the said parish of Ystradyfodwg, to commence in rhe Cwm Fforch Stream, at a point distant 308 yards or thereabouts, measured up and along the course of that stream from the sheepfold near to Taren Eiddew, and terminating at or in the aqueduct, tunnel, conduit, or lines of pipes (Work No. 2), at or near the point of termination of the same. (5) An aqueduct, conduit, or line of pipes (No. 2), situate wholly in the said parish of Ystradyfodwg, to commence in the Nant-y- Seisig Brook at a point distant 970 yards or thereabouts, measured up and alouir the stream from the Ystrad Gas and Water Company's weir and intake on that stream, and terminating at or m the aqueduct, tunnel, conduit, or lines of pipes (Work No. 2) hereinbefore described at or near the point of termination of the same. (6) An aqeuduct,conduit,or line of pipes (No. 3), situate wholly in the said parish of Ystrady- fodwg, to commence in or at the termination of the aqueduct, tunnel, conduit, or lines of pipes (Work No. 2), hereinbefore described, and terminating at or near the west side of the filter beds and service reeervoi rs (Work No. 3) h ereinbefore descri bed. (7) An aqueduct, conduit, or line of pipes (No. 4), situate wholly in the said parish of Ystradyfodwg, to commence at or near the west side of the filter beds and service reservoirs (Work No. 3), hereinbefore described, and terminating at the northern corner of the north-western boundary of the Ystrad Gas and Water Company's property at Tynywain, and forming a junction with their supply main at or near that point. (8) An aqueduct, conduit, or line of pipes (No. 5), situate wholly in the said parish of Ystradyfodwg, to commence at the service reservoirs (Work No. 3), hereinbefore described, at the west side thereof, and terminating in the public road leading from Blaen Rhondda to Treher- bert, at a point distant 400 yards or there- abouts from the Blaen Rhondda Hotel, measured along Brook-street, Blaen Rhondda, in a southerly direction. (9) An aqueduct, conduit, or line of pipes (No. 6), situate wholly in the said parish of Ystradyfodwg. to commence at a junction with the aqueduct, conduit, or line of pipes (No. 5), hereinbeforedesoribed, at a point distant 300 yards or thereabouts from the centre of the arch of the Fernhill Colliery's siding of the Taff Vale Railway, at the eastern end of Brook-street aforesaid, measured in an easterly direction, and ter- minating at or near the northern end of Femhill-cottages together with all cuts, channels, adits, catch- waters, aqueducts, culverts, tunnels, drains, junctions, sluices, byewashes, weirs, gauges, tanks, wells, filter-beds, filters, embankments, dams, retaining walls, bridges, road diversions, road approaches, and other roads aud communi- cations, engines, engine-houses, mains, pipes, pumps, and other apparatus, machinery, and appliances necessary or convenient in connection with the before-mentioned works, or for the effectual construction, maintenance, and use of the said works or incidental thereto, and for collecting, impounding, conveying, and distribut- ing water. 11. The Bill will authorise the District Council to exercise the powers and effect, the purposes following, or some of them (that is to say) (a) To take, intercept, divert, collect, impound, appropriate and use, by and in the intended works, or any enlargement thereof, or any waterworks for the time being belonging to the District Council, the waters of Lake Llynfawr and all streams and springs, feeders and tributaries of or which now flow into the said Lake and all such streams, springs, and waters as will or may be token or intercepted by the intended works, or as may be found on, in, ot under any of the lands for the time being belonging to or which may be acquired by the District Council, or over or in respect of which they have or may acquire easements, and especially the following streams and waters, namely — Cwm-Selsig, Nant-y- Selsig, Nant Sair, Nant-y-Gwair, Nant- yr Ychain, Nant Iluest. Nant herw Wiou, Nant Melyu, Nant-carn-Mosyn, Nant-gareg-lwyd, Nant-yxya-feio, Cwm-y- fforch, Nant-tou-llwyd, Nant-coedcae-tyle- fforest. Nant-ystrad-'ffernol, Nant-y-bwich, and Nantdyrysiog, all of which Lake streams, springs, and waters flow as follows: —The streams, springs, and waters other than the waters of the said Lake and its feeders and tributaries, into the River Rhondda, thence into the River Taff and thence to the estuary of the Taff, and so on to the sea, and the waters of the said Lake and its feeders and tributaries into the Nant Gwercloch Brook, thence into the River Neath, and so on to the sea, (b) To deviate laterally from the lines of the intended works as shown upon the plans thereof, to be deposited as hereinafter men- tioned to such extent as may be indicated on those plans, and to deviate vertically from the levels of those works as shown upon the deposited sections thereof, to be deposited as hereinafter mentioned to such extent as the Bill may prescribe. (c) To cross, alter, divert, or stop up tempora- rily or permanently, or otherwise interfere with roads, highways, footpaths, bridges, railways, tramways, sewers, drains, streams, banks, watercourses, pipes, tubes, and telegraphs, telephones, and wires within the before-mentioned parishes and places so far as may be necessary or convenient for the purposes of the intended works or other pur- poses of the Bill. (d) To purchase and take or acquire by com- pulsion or agreement, or to take on lease and to hold lands, streams, springs, waters, houses, and hereditaments, and rights and i, easements in, over, under, or connected with lands, streams, sprmgs, waters, houses, and hereditaments in the parishes and places herein before mentioned, for the pnrposo of constructing the said intended works or for other purposes of the Bill, to empower the District Council to purchase so much only of any property as they may require for the purposes of the Bill without being subject to the liability imposed by Section 92 of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845. and for any of the purposes aforesaid to acquire by compulsion easements over, through, or under lands without being required to purchase the surface. 12. To authorise the temporary occupation and use of lands, houses, buildings, easements, and hereditaments for obtaining materials for the construction of the said intended embankment tunnel, reservoirs, aud lines of pipes or otherwise for the purposes of the intended Act, and to incorporate, with such variations and amend- ments as may be proper or requisite, all or some of the provisions of the Railways Causes Consolidation Ace, 1845. with respect to the temporary occupation ot lands near the railway daring tho construction thereof, and to make other provisions with reference thereto. 13. To authorise the District Council for the protection of their Waterworks, to hold any lands which they may acquire under '.he authority of the intended Act tree from the provisions of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845. with respect to superfluous lands, and to empower the District Council to acquire by compulsion or agreement any mines or minerals under any lands proposed to be taken, notwithstanding the provisions of the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847, with respect to mines. 14. To empower the Distriob Council to make, rescind, and enforce bye-laws, rules, and regula- tions with reference to and to prescribe the nature, strength, siz?, and materials, of pipes, fittings, and apparatus for or connested with the supply of water, and with reference to the fixing thereof, and for preventing the waste, misuse, and fouling of 1;110 water and esoape of gas, and to impose penalties for the breach of any such bye- impo,-o laws, rultis, and regulations. 15. To authorise the District Counoil to levy and recover races, rents, and charges for the supply of ga.3 and water, and residual products, and for tho biro or use of meters, lamps, stove*, machinery, engines, and fittings, to alter existing rates, rents, and charges, and to confer, vary, or extinguish exemptions from payment of rates, rents, and oharges, to allow rebates or discounts and to empower the Distriofc Oiuncil I to refuse to supply gas to persons quitting with- out paying their gas and meter rents. 16. To authorise the District Council to apply their funds and any moneys belonging to them or which they are authorised to raise tor any of fche purposes of the intended Act, and for the like purposes to errant life, terminable, or perpetual annuities, and to raise further moneys by borrow- ing on mortgage or bond and by the issue of debenture stock, and by annuities, and to charge as well the undertakings, rates, and revenues and property which they may acquire and construct under the intended Act as all other the estate, rates, and revenues and property of the District Council, and the district fund, or auy of them, or any part or pa,rts thereof respectively, with •nd as security for all or any part of such M»auifciea or sums of money to be borrowed as ■$zrlixtiuniavg Sottas. aforesaid, or otherwise as shall be prescribed by the Bill. 17. To authorise and require the District Counci! to keep separate accounts of the revenues and expenditure of their gas and water under- takings and enable them when necessary 0.. expedient to suppiemcnt the revenue of one of such undertakings by a portion of the revenue of the other undertaking so as to make good the deficiency that may be found in the revenue of either undertaking in any year. 18. To authorise the District Council or any other local authority, body, company, or persous, within cr beyond the district, from i.inie to time to enter into and carry into effent contracts and arrangements for tbesuppiyof gas and w^terin bu^k by;the Destrier Council to any such local authority, body, oompany, or persons for such periods, and on such terms (pecuniary and otherwise) and conditions as the District Council and such local authority, body, company, or persons may agree upon. 19. To alter, amend, repeal, vary, or enlarge, so far as it may be necessary or expedient, some or all of the provisions of the following local and personal Acts of Parliament and Orders (that is to say): The Ystrad Gas and Water Acts, 1868, 1874, and 1890. and the Ystrad Gas and Wacer Orders 1872, 1879, and 1883, and any other ACII or Acts relating directly or indirectly to the Company, or to the supply of gas and water within the limits to be defined by the Act.. 20. The Bill will vary and extinguish all suoh rights and privileges as would m anywise interfere with its objects, and will or mav incorporate and extend and make applicable all or some of the powers and provisions of the Lands Clauses Acts, the Gasworks Clauses Aots, 1847, the Gasworks Clauses Act. 1871, tbe Waterworks Clauses Acts, 1847 and 1863, the provisions of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, with respect to the temporary occupation ot lauds near the. rail- way, the Public Health Acts, the Local LoaiW Act, 1875, and ali Acts amending those Acts AND NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that duplicate plans and sections of the several works to be authorised by the intended Act, and of the lands, houses, and otb-r property to be taken for the purposes thereof, together with a book of reference to such plans, and a copy t t this Notice, as published in the London Gazette, will, on or before the 30.11 day ot November instant, be deposited for public inspection with the Clerk of th- Peace for the county of Glamor- gan, at his office at Cardiff, and that on or before the same day a copy of so much of the said plans, sections, and book of reference as relates to each parish or extra-parochial place in or through which the said intended wcwki are proposed to be made, or any lands and houses proposed to he taken are situate, and also a copy of this Notice, as published in the London Gazette, will be deposited for public inspection in the case of each such parish with the Parish Clerk thereof at his residence, and in the case of each such extra-parochial place with the Parish Clerk of some parish immediately adjoining thereto at his residence, and as regards any of the beforementioned parishes or places which is a rural parish for which a Parish Council bas bu elected also with the Clerk (if any) of the Parish Council of every such parish, and if in any such parish there be no Clerk of such Council then with the Chairman of that Council at his residence. On or before the 21st day of December next printed copies of the intended Act or Bill will be deposited in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons. Dated this 18th day of November, 1895. WALTER MORGAN, RHYS, and BRUCE, Pontypridd, Solicitors for the Bill. TORR and CO., 19, Parliament-street, Westminster, S.W., Parliamentary Agents.

IN PARLIAMENT -SESSION 1896. 0AEEPHILLY MARKETS. (New Markets buildings and approaches, Main- tenance alteration and improvement of present Markets; Slaughter Houses Tolls Rates Rents and Stallages; Prohibiting Sale and Exhibition of Cattle and Live Stock and Articles in public streets; Prohibiting Slaughter of Animals exccept in Slaughter Houses of Undertakers; For regulating driving of Cattle; Altering times of holding Markets and Fairs Byelaws and Regulations; Limits of intended Act Incorporation of Company Incorporation of Acts and other purposes.) APPLICATION :is intended to be made to Parliament next session for leave to bring in a Bill to confer upon David Lewis ot Caerphilly in the County of Glamorgan his heirs and assigns, or upon a Company to be incorporated by the Bill, or otherwise, as the case may be, (hereinafter respectively referred te as "the undertakers") all or some of the following powers and to make all necessary provisions for effecting all or some of the following purposes, that is to say:— 1. TO establish construct regulate enlarge extend improve and maintain and to dis- continue Markets and Fairs within the limits hereinafter mentioned 2. To oonstruct erect or provide a Market with all necessary buildings stalls standings and other accommodation therein for the sale of meat fish poultry vegetables garden seeds fruit corn cheese and other market- able provisions commodities goods wares and merchandize in lieu of or in addition to the present Cheese and Corn Market in Market-street Caerphilly, and upon the sites thereof, and upon the other lands nex') herein- after mentioned, or some of thetu nAinely:-The Twyn Caerphilly in the parish of Eglwysilan in the County of Glamorgan, or within other limits to be prescribed by the Bill; and also to provide for fche maintenance enlargement and improvement of the present Market Hall Markets and Market Place and for the appropriation aud user thereof for the pur- poses of the said intended Market. 3. To erect or construct and maintain a Market or Markets for the sale of cattle horses sheep pigs and other live stock and of hay straw fodder and roots with all requisite buildings approaches and other works and conveniences upon land now belonging to the said David Lewis and known as Totiyfelin Meadow situate between Castle Street Bed- was Road and the Cledda Brook Caerphilly all situate within the parish of Eglwysilan in the County of Glamorgan. 4. To make all necessary approaches to thc, said Markets or any or either of them 5, To purchase by agreement or take on lease such lands houses buildings and easements a.& may be necessary for the purposes of the exist- ing or proposed Markets and Fairs, or any other purposes of Lhe intended Aot. 6. To cross, divert, a!ter, stop up and interfere with, whether temporarily or permanently, all streets roads highways tootways railways tramways water courses drains sewers pipes tubes and telegraphs which it may be neces- sary so to cross divert alter stop up or interfere with for the purposes ot the intended Act 7. To erect and provide slaughterhouses and to prohibit the slaughtering of cattle and other animals and the dressing of any carcase for sale except in slaughter houses erected or provided by the undertakers within the limits of the intended Act 8. To levy and ooliect tolls rents rates stallages dues duties and other payments for and in respect ot the said markets market-placet' market-houses slaughter-houses fairs build- ings and other works and conveniences to alter existing tolls rates sUllages duties and other payments, and to confirm continue vary or extit-guigh exemptions from the pay- ment of any such existing or o:b?r tolls rtmtt rates stallages dues duties and payments. 9. To declare the limits ot the intended Act to be the Town Ward of the Urban District Council of Caerphilly in the Couuty of GI. morgan to prohibit the holding of uny other Market or Fair within those limits, and to prohibit or restrict the sale or exhibition of cattle horses sheep pigs or other live stock and of corn bay straw fodder and roots or any animal article or thing in the strees and public places within the said limits, except as may be authorised by the intended A0t, elsewhere^ than in the Markets and Fans aulnorisea by, and iu such manner as may be provided for by, the intended Act to alfcar all or any of the existing or customary days for the holding of the Markets and Fairs aud to fix other days in lieu thereof or in addition thereto to regulate the mode of or prohibi. the drawing or leading or conveyance ot cattle horses isbeep pigs and other animals ic or through any of the streets roads or thoroughfares loading or adjacent to the said intended Cattle Market; and to nHkz provision by byelaws and otherwise for the government; and regulation of the present and intended Markets and Fairs and inteuded slaughter-houses, and of persons using or frequenting the same, and fot enforcing such prohibitions restrictions byetavrs and regula- tions by penalties and otherwise 10. To vary or extinguish all existing rigbts hod privileges which would or migho in any way preveut or hinder any of the objects of the intended Act being carried into full and complete effect and to confer other rights and privileges 11. To make provision as to the purchase by the Oerphllfy Urban District Council and the sale to them by tho undertakers, of the pro- perty rights powers privileges and advan. tages of the undertakers, in relation tc Marketa and Fair*, at such time and on such terms and subject to suoh conditions « may be agreed upon or as m«y be prescribed or nut, orised by tbe intended Act F^ovision will or may iw made ia the Bui tor incorporating a Company to carry !Uto execut'on the powers of the intended Ac-, and for the aaif and transfer to such Company of the existing fairs and marksla ,tit;privil-gia and advan- tages now vested in or l>e!ong>rig to the said David Lewis, of holding and keeping fairs and markets in Caerphilly. 13. To incorporate with the Bill with or with* out alteration all or some of the provision* of the L'\nds Clauses Consolidation Acts 1845. 1860 and 1869, The C'>oip,tnies' Glauses Consolidation Act 1845 1863 and ]869 and The Markets and Fairs C auser; Aot 1847, and any Acts men ing or. extending the satow 14. Printed copies of the Bill will be deposited in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons on or before the 21",t day of December next. Dated this 18ih day of November, 1895. DUUNFORD & CO 38 Parliatnen! -srreefc Westminster S.W. 6953 Parliamentary Agents.

IN PARLIAMENT. SESSION 1896. PORT TALBOT RAILWAY AND DOCKS (SOUTH WALES1 MINERAL RAILWAY JUNCTION RAILWAY). (Railways and other works connected therewith in County of Glamorgan Junctions mth jsouth Walts Mineral Railway and ^■ufworJJ}' Railway of the South Wales Whitworth Mineral Estates Company, Limited ^cquisi- tion, Compul&orily or by Agreementt of the Whitioorth Railway and (by Agreement) or other Railways of the said Company; Breaking up Roads and Footpaths Purchase of Lands Compulsorily and by Agreement Agreements with public bodies, &nd power to them to apply their Funds therefor Running Poulers and Facilities over portion of South Wales Mineral Railway Traffic and other Agreements with the said Companies Providing for transfer of South Wales Mineral Railway to the Company; Additional Capital; Exemption from provi- sions of Section 9% of Land* Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845; Levymg of Tolls, Rates, and Charges; Power to pay Interest out of Capital; Incorporation of Acts; Amendment of Acts.) Application is intended to be made to Parlia- ment in the next Session thereof, by the Port Talbot Railway and Docks Company (who are hereinafter called the Company ), for leave to bring in a Bill for the following, or some of the following, among other purposes, that is to say 1. To enable the Company to make and maintain, wholly in the County of Glamorgan, the railways, hereinafter described, with all necessary stations, sidings, approaches, works, and conveniences connected therewith respec- tively, and to stop up or divert such streets roads, or footpaths as are shown on the deposited plans hereinafter referred to relating to the said railways, as intended to be stopped up or diverted, that is to say A Railway (No. 1), commencing in the parish of Margam by a junction with the Railway No. 4 authorised by the Port Talbot Rail. way and Docks Act, 1894, now in course of construction, at a. point on the said author- ised railway distant 235 yards, or there- abouts, measured along the centre line of the said railway in a south-easterly direction from the centre of the bridge carrying the said railway over the Oakwood Railway, and terminating in the parish of Baglaii (detached) at a point on the western fence of the field numbered 69 on the sheet No. XVI., 15of the 25-inch ordnance mao of the parish of Baglan, distant about 8 yards measured in a southerly direction along the said fence from its junction with the boundary fence of the South Wales Mineral Railway. The said railway will pass from, through, in, or into the parishes of Margam, Michael- ston-super-Avon, Baglan, and Llautwit- juxta-Neath. A Railway (No. 2), wholly in the parish of Baglan (detached), commencing by a junction with the said intended Railway No. 1, at the termination thereof, herein- before described, and terminating by a junction with the South Wales Mineral Railway, ot the centre of the bridge, described on Sheet No. XVI., 15 of the 25-inch ordnance map of the parish of Baglan as Pont Aber-gwen-ffrwd. A Railway (No. 3), wholly in the parish of Baglan (detached), commencing by a junction with the said intended R-tit way No. 1, at the termination thereof, hereinbefore described, and termi- nating by a junction with the private railway known as the Whitworth Railway, belonging or reputed to belong to the South Wales Whitworth Mmt^ral Estates Company, Limited (hereinafter called the Whitworth Company), at a point distant 400 yards, or thereabouts, measured along the centre line of the said private railway from its junction with the South Wales Mineral Railway. A Railway (No. 4), wholly in the parish of Margam, commencing by a junction with Railway No. 1 authorised by the Port Tal- bot Railway and Docks Act, 1894, now in course of construction, at a point distant 22 yards, or thereabouts, measured in a northerly direction along the centre line of the said railway, from the level crossing of the said railway across the public road leading from Taibach to Dyffryn- isaf, and terminating by a junction with Railway No. 4, authorised by the Fort Talbot Railway and Docks Act, 1894, now in course of construction, at a point distant 421 yards, or thereabouts, measured in a south-easterly direction along the centre line of the said railway, from the centre of the bridge, carrying the said railway over the Oakwood Railway. 2. To empower the Company to purchase and acquire the said Whitworth Railway and the site thereof, situate in the said parish of Baglan (detached) and the parish of Miohaelston-super- Avon, and lying between the commencement of that railway at its junction with the South Wales Mineral Railway in the said parish of Buglan (detached) and its termination in the same parish near to the Blaen Pelena level, belonging or reputed to belong to the Whitworth Company, and all lands, buildings, bridges, sidings, junc- tions approaches, property and rights, powers and privileges connected therewith, for such consideration, and upon such terms and con- ditions as may have bsen, or may be agreed on between the owners, lessees and occupiere of that railway and site, or. as in default of agreement, may be settled by arbitration, and, if thought fit, to extinguish all existing rights in and over the railway and site so acquired, or any part or parts thereof, or to maintain and improve the said railway or any part or parts thereof, and to utilise the same, and the before-mentioned matters appurtenant thereto, or exercisable there. with, for the purposes of the said intended railway, and as part of the undertaking of the Company, and the Bill will seek power for the Company to acquire compulsorily or by agree- ment, the site of so muoh of the said Whitworth Railway as is constructed on land belonging, or reputed to belong to Sir William Thdmas Lewis. 3. To vest in the Company the usual powers granted to railway companies for the construction and maintenance of railways, and especially the powers granted by the 16A Section of the Rail- "XJPauses Consolidation Act, 1845^ and to r^rZl86 fcehem in connection w.th a«d for the purposes of a" or any of the said railways and o ,1 ^ake such alterations in the line, width, and levels of the roads, streets, or ways ?°mm.u",catlng with the roads, streets, or ways intended to be made, diverted, or altered under the powers of the BilJ as mav be necessary m constructing the said intended railways and works, and to deviate from the lines of the railways and works hereinbefore mentioned to I any extent within the limits of deviation to be shown on the plans deposited as hereinafter mentioned oi defined by the Bill, aud to deviate from the levels shown upon the seotions deposited as hereinafter mentioned to any extent which may be defined by the Bill Ti°d will ori«ingui"h a» rights of way over, and will or may vest i„ the Company the Bite and soil of the portions of r0!W}s ~nd foot- paths rendered unnecessary by rewon anv diversions thereof or which are ,l,o»n the deposited plans hereinafter ref-rred as intended to be stopped up or diverted nr whinh are included within the limits of \Z1 S* shown on those plans as intehded to be Z. pulsorily taken, and which shall be so taken, or which the Company are in any way authorised to stop up, and will or may I provide that every new or diverted or substituted street, road, or footpath to be con- I structed, diverted, or substituted under the I powers of the Bill sball be maintained and repaired by the same body or persons. and by the same means as other streets, roads,. footpaths, or highways in the parishes, townships, or places within which such new, diverted, or substituted street, road, or footpath will be situate, are for the time being legally repairable, or in such other manner as the Bill will or may prescribe, and it I IJarttattmtiariJ Adirts. I will or may also provide that as respects the said intended railways the Company shall not be liable j under the 46th Section of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, to maintain the surface I of any turnpike, highway, or public carriage road which shall be carried over the said intended railways by a bridge or bridges unless the level of such road be permanently altered so as to increase the gradient of any part thereof. 5. To empower the Company on the one hand, and any municipal, sanitary, highway, or local authority, and any county, urban, rural or parish council, and any company or person or persons, and the owners, lessees, and occupiers of any railways or lands taken or acquired under or affected by the powers of the Bill on the other hand, to enter into and fulfil contracts and agreements for, or in relation to the execution or modification of any works, or the substitution of any other work or works in lieu of those authorised or agreed to be done or executed, and the cost thereof and incidental thereto, the construction, repair, and maintenance of any streets, roads, or footpaths, and the taking I of any lands in which they may re- spectively be interested, and to enable any such authority and council to provide the neoeaisary funds for the purpose by borrowing, and by she levying of rates, or by either of those means; and the Bill will or may oonfirra any suoh contract or agreement which may already have been, or which, at any time during the progreM of the Bill, may be entered into for or in relation to any of the matters aforesaid. 6. To authorise the Company from time to time for the purposes of the said intended railways and works to purchase or take on lease or other- wise acquire lands (including in that word where used in this notice, houses, buildings, mills, ware- houses, sheds and wharves), and other property, compulsorily or by agreement, and to acquire, compulsorily or by agreement, easements over, under, or in respect of, and to vary and extinguish existing rights and privileges over such lands and property, and all such rights and privileges as it may be necessary to vary or extinguish for any of ohe purposes of the Bill. 7. To enable the Company to purchase so much of any house or other building or manufactory as they may require for the purposes of the Bill, without being subjected to the liability imposed by the 92ad Section of the Lands Clauses Con- solidation Act, 1845. 8. To authorise the Whitworth Company to sell and the Company to purchase by agreement, in addition to the Whitworth Railway, all or any other railways, or the sites thereof belonging to the WhitwDrth Company. 9. To enable the Company and all bodies and persons lawfully using any railway of the Com- pany, to run over and use with their engines, carriages, wagons and tmeks, and their officers and servants, and for the purposes of traffic of every description the following railways and portions of railways (that is to say) So much of the South Wales Mineral Railway as lies between the termination of the intended Railway (No. 2) and the junction of the Whit- worth Railway with the South Wales Mineral Railway, with all ways, sidings, turntables, stations, buildings, offices, warehousen approaches, water supplies, telegraphs, telephones, signals, machinery, appliances and conveniences on or connected with such portion of railway, upon such terms and conditions, pecuniary aud otherwise, and on payment of such tolls, rates, and charges as may from time to time be agreed on, or as in default of agreement shall be determined by arbitration,.or defined by the Bill, and to require the companies and persons owning or working the said railway to afford all requisite faoilites for the purpose, and to reoeive. book through, invoice, forward, and deliver to and from the same, and at the stations, ware- houses, booking offices and premises of such companies and persons, all traffic of every deTOription coming from or destined for the undertaking of the Company, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed on or as in default of agreement shall be determined in any of the manners aforesaid, and to enable the Company and all such bodies or persons to receive tolls, rates, and charges, in respect of passengers, animals, merchandise, articles. and things con- veyed by them over the before-mentioned portions of railway, and to alter the tolls, rates, and charges to be hereafter taken thereon or in respect thereof, and to confer exemptions from such tolls, ratM, and charges. 10. To enable the Company on the one hand, and the said South Wales Mineral Railway Company and the Whitworth Company, or either of them, on the other band, from time to time to enter into agreements with respect to the working, use, management, and maintenance by the Company of the said South Wales Mineral Railway and the Whitworth Railway, or either ot them, or any part or parts thereof respectively the supply of rolling stock and machinery, and of officers and servants for the conduct of the traffio of such railways; the payments to be made and the^ conditions to be performed with respect to sucii working, use,management, and maintenance; the interchange, accommodation, and conveyance of traffic coming from or destiluert for the respec- tive undertakings of the contracting Companies, and the division and appropriation of the revenue arising from that traffio; *nd to confirm any agreement already made, or which previously to the passing of the Bill may be made, touching any of the matters aforesaid. 11. To transfer to, and vest in, or to provide for the transfer to, and the vesting in the Company of the undertaking, lands and property of the South Wales Mineral Railway Company, freed or otherwise, from all or certain debts, liabilities, and obligations of that Company, upon suoh terms and conditions as may have been, or which, during the progress of the Bill, may be agreed on between that Company and the Company, or as may be defined in the Bill or prescribed by Parliament, and to confirm with or without alteration any agreement or agreements with respect to the matters aforesaid or any of them, and in the event of such transfer being effected to enable the Company to exercise I and enjoy the powers, rights, and privileges of the South Wales Mineral Railway Com- pany, including the powers to levy tolls, rates, ana cnarges, witn respect as well to the undertaking of any other Company as to their own undertaking, and to provide for the payment or application of the purchase money or other consideration for the transfer and for the distri- bution thereof among the mortgagees, creditors, and stock and shareholders of that Company, and for the winding up of the affairs, of that Company and their ultimate dissolution, and to authorise and require the holders of debenture stock and of the several classes of shares in the undertaking of the South Wales Mineral Railway Company, to acoept in exohange and substitution for their said stock and shares, debenture or other stock or ahares of the Company, of such amount, and bearing suoh rate of interest, as may be prescribed by the Bill, or such sums of money as may be agreed on or prescribed by the Bill in discharge thereof. 12. To authorise the Company to levy tolls, rates, and charges for and in respect of the said intended railways and works, and the said rail- ways authorised to be acquired under the powers of the intended Act if and when acquired, and for the purposes of the Bill, and to alter exist. ing and to confer exemptions from tolls, rates, and charges, and to exercise other rights and privileges. 13. To authorise the Company on the one hand and the South Wales Mineral Railway Company and the Whitworth Company, or either of them, on the other hand, to enter into and fulfil contracts and agreements for and in relation to any of the matters aforesaid in which they are respectively interested, and to confirm, with or without alteration, any such agreement already or which during the progress of the Bill may be so entered into. 14. The Bill will authorize the Company to raise further sums of money for the purposes of the Bill, and also for the completion of works already authorized, and also for the general Eurposes of and incident to their undertaking, by the creation of new shares or stock. with or without a guaranteed or preferential dividend, or other special rights or privileges attached thereto, and by borrowing, and by the creation of deben- ture stock, or by any of such means, and also to apply to all or any of such purposes any capital or funds now belonging to the Company or here- after to belong to them, or under the control of their Directors. 15. To eu,%ble the Company, notwithstanding anything contained in the Companies Clauses ,-es Consolidation Act, 1845, to pay out of the capital or any of the funds of the Company, interest or dividends on any shares or stocks of the Company. 16. The Bill will vary or extinguish all existing rights or privileges which will interfere with its objects, and it will incorporate with itself such tbe Companies Clauses Acts, 1845, 1863, and 1869, the Lands Clauses Acts, the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and the Railways Clauses Aot, 1863, as may be I deemed expedient. And it will or may, so far as is necessary or expedient for the purposes of the Bill, alter and enlarge the powers and provisions of the Port Talbot Railway and Docks Act. 1894, I and of any other Act or Acts relating directly or indirectly to the Company or their under- taking, and the South Wales Mineral Railway Act, 1855, and any other Act or Acts relating directly or indirectly to that Company or their undertaking, the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway Act, 1882, and any other Act or Acts relating directly or indireotly to the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway Company or their undertaking, and any other Act or Acts which may interfere with any purpose of the Bill. Duplicate plans and seotions describing the ) lines, situations and levels of the proposed rail- ways and other works, and the lands in or through which they will be made, and also duplioate plans showing the lands and property I intended to bo com pulsorily taken for other purposes under the powers of the Bill, together with a book of reference to such plans, con- taining the names of the ewners and lessees, or reputed owners and lessees, and ef the occupiers of such lands, houses and other property also an ordnanoe map, with the lines of railway delineated thereon, so as to show their general course and direction, and a copy of this notice will, on or before the 30th day of November instant, be deposited for public inspection, with the Clerk of the Teace for the county of Glamorgan, at his office at Cardiff. And on or before the same day a copy of so much of the said plans, sections, and book of reference as relates to each parish in or through which the intended railways and other works will be made, or in which any lands are intended to be taken, and a copy of this notice, will be deposited with the parish clerk of each such parish ab his residenoa, and, in the case of any extra-parochial place, with the clerk of some parish immediately adjoining such extra-parochial place at his residence, and as regards any of the before-mentioned parishes or places which is a rural parish for which a parish council has been elected, also with the clerk (if any) of the parish council of every such parish at hiareeideooe, and if in wy auol¡,,j c' I IParliatmntarg Jioiias. bo clerk of such council, then with the chairman of that council at his residence. Printed copies of the proposed Bill will be deposited in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons on or before the 21st day of December next. Dated thip- 19th day of November, 1895. CHESTON and SONS, 1, Great"\ „ Winchester-street, London, | Solicitors L. G. WILLIAMS, 8, Charles- f foTr„ the street, Cardiff, J Bill. DYSON and CO., 24, Parliament-street. 6746 Westminster, Parliamentary Agents.

IN PARLIAMENT—SESSION 1896. JgARRY RAILWAY. (New Railways, St. Paqan's to Walnut Tree and Aber Branch Railtvays of Rhyitmey Railway Company, and at Barry Island Maintenance and Rcpait of Boods Running Powers over parts of Rhymney Railway, Taff Bargoed Branch, of Great Western and Rhymney Railway Companies, and intervening portion of Great Western Railway (PetxaUtau to Taff Bargoed Junction) and part of Taff Vale Railway (Hafod to Porth); Agreements with Rhymney Railway Company; Additional Capital Provisions as to Payment for Ship ping, Discharging, Trimming. dec. Liability for Loss by Accidents Amendments of Acta.) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that applies fcion is intended to be made to Parliament, In the ensuing session by the Barry Railway Company (hereinafter referred to as the Company ") f0p leave to bring in a Bill for effecting the purposes or some of the purposes following (that is to say):- To authorise the Company to make and mani- tain the railways and works In the county of Glamorgan, hereinafter described, with all proper stations, sidings, approaches, works, and con- veniences connected therewith, viz. :— A Railway (No. 1), commenoing in the parish of St. Pagan's by a junobiou with the Company a mam line from Barry to Hafod at a point 7! chains, or thereabouts, measured along the said main line northward from the mile post or mark denoting 7i miles from Barry, and terminating in the parish of Eglwysilan by a junction with the Rhymnev Railway Company's Walnut Tree Branch Railway, ab a point three chains, or there- abouts, measured along the said branch railway in the direction of Walnut Tree Junction, trom the mile post or mark deno. ting 10i miles from Cardiff. A Railway (No. 2), wholly in the parish of Eglwysilan, commencing by junction with the intended Railway No. 1 hereinbefore described, at or near a point on the north east boundary fence which separates the en* closureai numbered upon the 25-in. ordnance map 2,290 and 2.291 in that narnah point being 1 chain, or thereabouts, from the northernmost corner of the said enclosure numbered 2,291, and terminating by a iuno. tion with the Rhymney Railway Company Aber Branch Railway, at a point 6X chains or thereabouts, measured along the said branch railway in the direction of Cardiff from the mile post or mark denottng 10% miles from Cardiff. "a Which said intended Railways Nos. 1 and 2 will or may be made in the parishes of S- Fagan's, St. Brides-super-Ely, Radyr, Pentyroh" and Eglwysilan, or some of them. A Railway (No. 3), wholly in the parish of Sully, in the county of Glamorgan commencing by a junction with the raill way authorised by the Barry Railway Act 1894, at the termination thereof on Barry Island, near the junction of the roads known as Ivor-street and. Plymouth-road, and terminating at a point on the foreshore 10 chains, or thereabouts, measured in a southerly direction from the outer gates of the entrance to the Barry Dock Basin. To authorise the Company to deviate laterally from the lines of the intended railways and works to the extent shown on the plans herein- after mentioned, or as may be provided by the Bill, and also to deviate vertically from the levels shown on the sections hereinafter mentioned. To empower the Company to cross, stop up alter, divert, or otherwise interfere with, tem- porarily or permanently, all such roads, streets footpaths, highways, bridges, railways, tram- ways, canals, rivers, and streams, pipes, sewers, drains, telegraph or telephone wires, and posts within the aforesaid parishes, as it may be neces- sary to cross, stop up, alter, divert, or otherwise interfere with, for the purposes of the said in- tended railways and works. To make provision as to the maintenance and repair of roads diverted by the Company in the execution of any of their works, whether past or future, and of bridges over the Company's railway and tha roadway therton and approaches thereto, whether made or to be made, and to impose the obligation for such maintenance and repair on the authorities having the control of such roads respectively. To authorise the Company to purchase and take, either compulsorily or by agreement, lands houses, and other property, for the purpose of the intended railways and works and also easements and rights in, or over, or upon, lands and other property. To authorise the Company to purchase and take by compulsion, notwithstanding Section 92 of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Aot, 1845, a part or parts of any house, building, or manufac- tory, without being required or compelled to purchase the whole thereof. To empower the Company, on such terms and conditions, and on payment of such tolls, rates, and charges as may be agreed on, or may be settled by arbitration, or be provided by the Bill, to run over and use with their engines, carriages and wagons, and clerks, officers and servants, whether in charge ot or accompanying any engines or trains, or for other purposes, and for the purposes of their traffio of every description, the railways or portions of railway hereinafter mentioned, VIZ, All railways of the Rhymney Railway Com- pany, situate to the northward of the junction therewith of the intended Railway No, 1, as hereinbefore described. The Taff Bargoed branch of the Great Western and Rhymney Railway Companies. So much of the Great Western Railway as intervenes between the junction therewith of the said Taff Bargoed branch and the junction of the I Rhymney Railway with the Great Western Railway at Penalltau; So much of the Railway of the Taff Vale Rail- way Company as lies between the junction of the Barry Railway therewith at Hafod and the Porth Station including that Station. Together with the stations on the said railways, and all roads, platforms, points, signals, water, watering places, engine sheds, standing room for I engines, carriages and wagons, booking, and other offices, warehouses, sidings, loading and unloading places, turntables, junctions, machinery, works and conveniences of or connected with the said railways and stations. To enable the Company to demand, take, and recover tolls, rates, and charges upon, or in respect of, the intended railways and works, and also of the portions of railways, stations, ond works, to be run over and used as hereinbefore mentioned, and to confer, vary, or extinguish exemptions from tolls, rates, and charges. To authorise the Company to apply for the purposes of the Bill any of their existing or authorised capital or funds, and for this purpose and the general purposes of their undertaking, to raise additional capital by the creation of new ordinary or preference shares or stocks, and by borrowing on mortgage and by the issue of debenture stock. To enable the Company on the one band and the Rhymney Railway Company on the other I hand, to enter into and carry into effect agree- ments with respect to the construction, working, use, management, and maintenance of the said intended railways and works, or of any of them, I or of the existing railways of the oompany and the Rhymney Railway Company, or either of them, or any part or parts thereof; the supply of rolling stock and machinery, and of officers and servants for the conduct of the traffic; on the said railways or either or any of them, the costs, charges, and expenses of such construc- tion, working, use, management, and mainten- ance the working, regulation, management, and transmission of theti-offic of tbe railways of the contracting Companies; and the collection, pay- ment, apportionment, appropriation, and distri- bution of the tolls, rates, and charges arising from any such traffic or with respect to any of such matters the guarantee by either of the said two Companies to the other of them of interest or dividend on the capital, or part of the capital of such other Company, and to confirm any agree- i ment which may be made between the said two Companies, touching any of tbe matters aforesaid. To make further provision with respect to the I Companies, touching any of tbn matters aforesaid. To make further provision with respect to the rates to be paid to tlie Oompany in respect of discharging, shipping, weighing, and trimming coal, and other things, and for other work, labour, or services performed by the Company in respect discharging, shipping, weighing, and trimming coal, and other things, and for other work, labour, or services performed by the Company in respect thereof, and for the use of shipping, loading, trimming, or discharging appliances, works, or convenience!?, and so far as may be necessary for that purpose, to extend and amend the provisions of Seotion 99, Sub-section (4), of the Barry Dook and Railways Act, 1884. To relieve the Company from liability in respect of loss or damage arising from fire, theft, storm, or other causes or accidents not arising from the default or neglect of the Company. To alter and amend, so far as may be necessary for the purposes of the intended Act. the Barry Dock and Railways Act. 1884, and any other Act or Acts relating to the Company, the 20 and 21 Vict., cap. cxl., and any other Act or Acts relating to the Rhymney Railway Company the 5 and 6 Wm. IV., cap. 107, and any other Act or Acts relating to the Great Western Railway Company the 6 and 7 Willian, IV., cap. 82, and any other Act relating to the Taff Vale Railway Company. The Bill will vary and extinguish all existing rights and privileges whioh would interfere with any of its objects, and confer other rights and privileges, and it will incorporate with or without exemptions and modifications, the Lands Clauses Acts, the Companies Clauses Consolidation Aot, Acts, the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act. 1845. and the Companies Clauses Acte, 1863 and 1869, the Railway Clauses Consolidation Act, i 1845, and the Railways Clauses Act, 1363. j On or before the 30th November instant, plans and seotions of the intended railways and works, and plans of the lands which may be taken oom- pulsorily under the powers of the intended Act, with a book of reference to such plans containing I the names of the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiersof thesaid lands, and also an ordnance map with the lines j of the said intended railways delineated thereon, and a copy of this notice as published in the Londsn Gazette will be deposited for public inspection with the Clerk of the Peace for the I county of Glamorgan, at his office at Cardiff, and on or before the same day a copy of so much of the said plans, sections, and I book of reference as rotates to each parish or extra-parochial plao in or tfecoqgh which I ta arliamtar11 DtiUS. j — j the eaid intended railways are to be made, with a copy of this notice as published in the London Gazette, will be deposited for public inspection in tbe case of each such parish with the Parish Clerk thereof at his residence, and in the case of any such extra-parochial plaoe with the Parish Clerk of some parish immediately adjoining thereto at his residence. And as regards any of the before-mentioned parishes or places which is a rural parish for which a Parish Council has been elected, also with the Cierk (if any) of the Parish Council of every such parish and if in any such parish there be no Clerk of such Council, then with the Chairman of that Counoil at his residence. AND NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on or before the 21st day of December next printed copies of the proposed Bill will be deposIted in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons. Dated this 15th day of November, 1895. DOWNING and HANDCOCK, Vienna Chambers, Cardiff, Solicitors. <' DYSON and CO., ] 24, Parliament-street, Westminster, j 6952 Parliamentary Agents. ]

SWANSEA OFFICE. 10 OF THE "SOUTH WALES DAILY NEWS," No. 2. COLLEGE-STREET.

IPARLIAMTTITARO Ratirts. I bargain whoU7 "u "be Parish of R»ilwavVj?n'enc'ng by a junction with Ra.iwJ HlV'Tf'ut'i0rTd hj'o!;1:6 Port Talbot Measured a Docks Act- 189*. at a point ^esterlv a l'K ther.feald railway in a south- ern th« „ eCt',on 50 thereabouts, une of, Gtea,J w«s«ern ^ycrcf4^ troth0-Aa,d Por* Talbo* Rail- and terminal £ ld kr*at Western R*'lw*y, No 1 h«rTi K ? y a Jlmot;,on w'th Railway 714 yard, before described afc a point about fr'fui from'f!'easure(' 111 a snuti)-easterly direo- ARaiIWsiv <r-'8 commencement thereof. IJf Mare- 13)'wholJy s,tuate in the parish Railwnv TVT' c<>meucing by a junction with ther3u?f0- U' at* 160 yard., or directi f measured m a north-westerly of th« h*1 !l,om north-westernmost oorner "IVnrt- "dings known as Margam Copper menon*' ,i&1><* yards, or thereabouts, »l r m a north-easterly direction from comffi(.BC(!a)ei)|i of £ jftl]way No. 1. and 12 'nfJtlu £ by a junction with Railway No. 2, rp' a "'e commencement thereof. uiro empower the Company to purchase and the sft;!i freement, the railways situate in V«v#v ,a Parish of Marram, and known respec- tjjJft9., 'be Morfa Railway and the Cefu and ".Way« and all lands, buildings, bridges, fyhta *UDOt'°ns, approaches, property and *Hh 'i0Wers and privileges connected there- ^hts*B<u lJ b'>ougbt ft6. to extinguish all existing hn_ thereover or therein, or to maintain, *&Vs°Ve' ailci utilise the said respective rail- »6P°r any part or parts thereof respectively, r"e before-mentioned matters appurtenant °r exercisable therewith respectively, for Aily •Poses of the said intended railways, or Cc>mn them, or other the purposes of the 5 Jpny* !°Uow ° aufcll°rize the purchase and talcing of the fcWfcr t"8 P,ec«a of land, or such part or parts Uij, »s may be required for the intended b a?' -d works, which land is, or is reputed ^ommon or commonable land, viz. :— *Uh t^'| whi™h nfe Parish in Quantity Unf3' d jfJ ,'he whidi the within X ™,nZ?v *U1 be "iicis Lands are Limits of^hft'y Sauway A- *• p A- R- p- n St Bride's j^y V 'ynineinin Minor— 19 0 0 3 0 0 ^ilVy iGraigXal-y-Llangein- j^No. fau wyr««.. 71 2 0 14 0 0 cymdda Llangein- ^acb| wyr. 8 2 0 2 0 0 ■J*o. 7 „ Llangein- „ „ jrithwaun.. wyr_ 7 2 0 12 0 ,I.' iran, 0 Test in the Company the usual powers allad ed to railway companies for the construction '"tenance of railways, and especially the *a»s -K^ited by the 16sh Section of the Rail- ^thor- Uusea Consolidation Act, 1845, and to "SK'UvJ29 in connection with and for the >0rkTea of ali or any of the said railways and ^'dth' 1:0 'nako such alterations in the line, flointt.' an<* levels of the roads, streets, or ways wish the roads, streets, or ways ihe to be made, diverted, or altered under ^Onst Wers of fche as may be necessary in Wnotln* the said intended railways and eo deviate from the lines of the rail- SjZ* an<i works hereinbefore mentioned to any th wit^ln ^e limits of deviation to be shown #r j P'ans deposited as hereinafter mentioned by the Bill, and to deviate from the W R'lown upon the seotions deposited as »to mentioned, to any extent which may B ^ned by fcbe Bill. ijv • Bill will extinguish all rights of way fite an^ w'" or mRy vest 'n 4b« Company the *nd soil of the portions of roads and foot- di» • rendered unnecessary by reason of any j thereof or which are shown on the • Posited plans, hereinafter referred to as °d be stopped up or diverted, or which #h in°luded within the limits of the lands on those plans as intended to be oom- jT'ily taken, and which shall be so taken, or nioh they are in any way authorized to stop jP» and will or may provide that every new or or substituted street, road, or footpath be constructed, diverted, or substituted under ^6 powers of the Bill shall be maintained and repaired by the same body or persons, and by the 'a 8 tneans 818 other streets, roads, footpaths, or i u-ay8 'n parishes,townships,or places with- whiohsuch new, diverted, or substituted street, or footpath will be situate, are for the time legally repairable, or in such other manner Bill may prescribe, and it will or may also Provide that as respects thesaid intended railways Oe Company shall not be liable under the 46th Beotionof theRailways Clauses Consolidation Act, hih *° majuta''1 tfae surface of any turnpike, or public carriage road which shall be jjWied over the said intended railways by a jfcJ' or bridges unless the level of such road be of altered so as to increase the gradient 6. To atk thereof- smd anvmpower the ComPany on tbe one hand, authority sanitary, highway, or local parish coun^i C°U £ ty' urban» rura1' or narsons a^1', and any ^omp^y or person or persons, and tbe owners, lessees, and occupiers ot any lands taken under or affected by the ST80,. fh^,BlU °n the other to eater in r ?NF 1 contracts and agreements for, or n relation to the execution or modification of »iWI w!Vb0 substitution of any other *Rreed tn i '!? m or those arjthoiised or ^treof and in^n0/f ,fxeci,ted» and the cost JePair, anri „ Cldenta^ thereto, the construction !?°kI»ths la,"?e of auy streetSi. roads, or th,iy Jnal th0 .fcakl»g of any lands in which ««*abl« respectively be interested, and to the nee lIy such authority and council to provide by (,i 4^y funds for the purpose by borrowing, °iean,. 6 levying of rates, or by either of those I oont ^'e or rcay confirm any Vebee l" aKreerDen'J which may already or which at any time during the I relati- Of the Bill may be entered into for or m 7. Tn to any of the matters aforesaid. any ja authorize the Company to appropriate the 0r time being belonging to them, f°r erection thereon of, and to erect dwellings s«Ch dn ii'0llr'r^ classes, and to appropriate for ^lon~-8 "nKs a«y buildings for the time being dwell;to 'be Company, and to sell or let such 8. "T. to PUrch^ r'zs fch0 Company from time to time ^*Ods j-8180 or take on lease or otherwise acquire I }j ''nc'uding in that word where used in sheds C6' houses, buildings, mills, warehouses, tyjlso'ar'd wharves), and other property, com- *°&iDi I °C agreement, and to acquire, ^Oder ily-0r agreement, easements over, *in' 'u 'n- ^esP00fi °*» and to vary and SUCt existing rights and privileges over Privil an<^ ProPerliy» and all such rights and nj, Ieges as it may be necessary to vary or g nf?u«sh for any of the purposes of the Bill. • Ao enable the Company to purchase so much a, ,a"y house or other building or manufactory Vritu'^ may rPClu'r0 for the purposes of the Bill beinK subjected to the liability imposed 16 92nd Section of the L;»nds Clauses Con- sohdati°n Act, 1845. toin • anthonso and provide for the under- an k'^ °r otherwise securing or strengthening of jn ^houses or buildings which may be rendered *?h»Ure or affected by any of the intended i0 and work3, and which houses and baild* DurrJS?ay ,uot be required to be taken for the ll^T8 re°f* Derson«° ,enable the Company and all bodies and Company a^ful,y usinS »ny railway of the carriages w ratl over and "se w'fch the,r en^ines» and servants80118 and tr"ck-' and their officers every de«crinf,anci Jor the purposes of traffic of portions of$^^6^ following railways and So much of n 'Mr' Bay ) V •, lies between the f eat Westera Railway a3 tended Railway (Nn rKmation of.the sald }n' the authorized Diini t:^e sa^ termination Western Railway anrl3, of the Great Western Railway asT ,So much of the Great termination of the .• ,between the said (No. 6) and the te ,ntended railway f*oh Branch of the Qreaif J^'th all ways, sidings tl 8,^6rn Railway, Gildings, office?, ware!,™ ables' sta6,?ns' ^ater supplies, teiegraphs aPProachf' ^achiuery, appliances and phones, signals, ^nnecterif with such railWav« eno6? on °< l^ilways respfctively, npon auoh°f P°rt,°n3 of 'tions, pecuniary and otherwise aBeims ttn oon" ™ «uch tolls, rates, and chares payi?enb ,0>e to time be agreed cn, or as in ,ronJ Rteement shall be deternnued by arhJi ° **ned by the Bill, and to require the ^t,I?"°r persons owning or working the said rail«n'eS Portions of railways respectively, to afford*43!! bS8ltie fac'!ities for thef PurP°-se' and to receive anrf t n £ invoice, forward, and deliver u fr°m the same, and at the stations »,1 2«es, booking offices and premises of ^Panics and peisons, all traffic of every deS. tajP 011 coming ftom or destined for the under- the Company, upon such terms and of ISl°ns as may be agreed ou or as in default iiiann ^etnent shall be determined in any of the Hud alT^ a^oresa'd, and to enable the Company rates Bu°h bodies or persons to receive tolls, atl'*rialcharges, in respect of passengers, v* nif>rcbandize, articles and things cou- °r bJ them over the beforementioned railways rate^ *^18 railways, and to alter the tolls, or in' chinge" to be hereafter taken thoreon from af3?601' thereof, and to confer exemptions 12 rp?'1 'Si rates, and charges. Com^ W'" or may ta Power to enable as may l!any uPon snch terms and conditions or de6 be Kreed on, or settled by arbitration, Dimbatv, uID V1? to complete the said branch h^fAnca "n default of the said Dtmbath Railwriv rvng c°nopleted by the Great Western by tPiny before a period to bo limited ?xercise »•) n et* Act, and for t'r.at purpose to ■^a,'wav P,,1^ powers of the Great Western 13. Ta ',7My,,lil!,ar' behalf. *ates, and c!ia"r'Zf)r the Company to levy tolls, lf|tpnded raiiJf. an 111 rpfil>ecfc of the said *fcilwH,ys to ay and works, and the said jcqniwd anr]D" "cqmred by tf»e Bill when t<a'ter eXl8bi110 ti)e. Purposes of the Bill, and tolls, rata, anri v? confer exemptions from es> and to exercise other J 14. The iH I e6. ileirourize the Company to I J? '• and also ^or the purposes of P^ses oW^ed, ann ,6 c°mP|etioii of works creation 7d ,nc,denc 0 for thf' general pur- » Kiuunt shares r, undertaking, by the a u on of n'l Nbar" .„j l_ r*:8n#s or riw-D-;i dividend, or other ^TB BtocknZTe' and b^ attached thereto, apply to all or any ofy tile Creation of deben. apply to all or any of of and to Of their Directors. la' or under the control J-o- lo enable the Coirm contained in the "°tw,bhsta»ding •nsolidation Act, 1845, to PaniQ3 Clauses (jivijny of the funds of the 8omoat °f -he oaPital «n *■ rttt T.„ or„lin|tnUh ( 11 rliamtntarg 0otias» rights or privileged which will interfere with its objects, and it will incorporate with itself such of the provisions of the Companies Clauses Acts, 1845, 1863, and 1869, the Lands Clauses Act*, the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and the Railways Clauses Act, 1S63, as may be deemed expedient. And it will, so far as is necessary or expedient for the purposes of the Bill, alter and enlarge the powers and provisions of the Port Talbot Railway and Docks Act, 1894, and of any other Act or Acts relating, directly or indirectly, to the Company or their undertaking 5 and 6 Win. IV., cap. 98, and any other Act or Acts relating, directly or indirectly, to the Great Western Railway Company or their undertaking; the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway Act, 1882, and any other Act or Acts directly or indirectly affecting the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway Company, or their under- taking; and any other Act or Acts which may interfere with any purposes of the Bill. Duplicate plans and sections describing the lines, situations, and levels of the proposed railways, and other works, and the lands in or through which they will be made, together with a book of reference to such plans, con- taining the names of the owners and lessees, or reputed owners and lessees, and of the occu- piers of such lands and other property also an Ordnanoe Map, with the lines of railway delineated thereon, so as so show their general course and direction, and a copy of this notice, will, on or before the 30th day of November instant, be deposited for public inspection with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Glamorgan, at his office at Cardiff. And on or before the same day a copy of so much of the said plans, sections, and book of reference as relates to each parish in or through which the intended railways and other works will be made. or in which any lands are intended to be taken, and a copy of this notice, will be deposited with the parish clerk of each such parish at his residence, and, in the case of any extra-parochial plaoe, with the clerk of some parish immediately adjoining such exbrx. parochial place at his residence, and as regards any of the before-mentioned parishes or places which is a rural parish for which a parish council has been elected, also with the clerk (if any) or the parish council of every such parish at his residence, and if in any such parish there be no clerk of such council, then with the chairman or that council at his residence. Printed copies of the proposed Bui will De deposited in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons on or before the 21st day of Decern- ber next. Dated this 18th day of November, 1895. CHESTON and SONS, 1, Greats SoIlcitors Winchef>ter-8treet, London; I j:or L. G. WILLIAMS, 8, Charles- j Bi„ street, Cardiff. DYSON and CO., 24, Parliament-street, 6946 Westminster. Parliamentary Agents.