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ç:=:: Parliamentary Notices. In Parliament.—Session 1885. Dee Conservancy and Improvement. (Constitution of Conservancy Board Transfer to them of Navigation Powers of the River Dee, of the River Dee Commissioners and others, and of existing Navigation Works; Extension of Con- servancy Limits above Wilcox Point in Chester ) Constituting Board the Port and Harbour Authority within the Port of Chester Transfer to them of Powers of the River Dee Pilotage Trust; Conferring further Powers for Improve- ment of Navigation, and Power to make Bye- laws; Vesting Ferries in Conservancy Board and Powers to Improve same Construction of new Navigation and other Works Diversion of Waters into them; Compulsory Purchase of Lands; Power to Purchase parts only of Properties; Powers of Sale, &c., of Lands by Board and Dee Company; Apportionment of Annuities and other Charges on Lands, and Powers to commute same Acreage Rate; Powers to Levy Tolls, Rates, and Duties; Powers to Board to raise Moneys; Powers to Railway Companies to Contribute and make Agreements; Power to Constitute Separate Undertakings; Contracts and Agreements by Conservancy Board, the Dee Company, Corporations, and others as to Works, <fcc., and Contribution of Funds; Provisions as to Outfall, &c., of Chester Sewage; Power to River Dee Company to Exe- cute all or some of Powers of Bill; Alteration of Constitution, Capital, and Name of Dee Company; Power to Conservancy Board to Acquire all Rights and Property of Dee Company, and Provision for its Consequent Dissolution; Abolition of River Dee Commission- ers, Supervisors, and Anchorage Dues; Repeal of Acts as to Statutable Depth of River Repeal, Amendment, and Incorporation of Acts; and other purposes.) NOTICE is hereby given, that application is intended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing Session, by the Company of proprietors of the Undertaking for recovering and preserving the Navigation of the River Dee (hereinafter called" the Company for leave to bring in a Bill (hereinafter called the Bill ") for the fol- lowing purposes, or some of them (that is to say 2'. To constitute, appoint, and incorporate a Conservancy Board for the improvement, protec- tion, maintenance, and conservancy of the River Dee, and the estuary thereof, and of the navigation thereof, from a point on the said river, about thirty yards above the weir or causeway at the old Dee bridge, in the Township and Parish of St. Mary- on-the-Hill, in the city and county of the city of Chester, down to a point called the Point of Aire, at or near the mouth of the said river on the west shore thereof, in the Parish of Llanasa and County of Flint; and also down to another point called Hilbre Point, likewise at or near the mouth of the said river, on the east shore thereof, in the Parish of West Kirby, in the Hundred of Wirral, in the County of Chester, and including all streams, havens, creeks, bays, and inlets within the limits aforesaid, and to prescribe, define, and regulate trie qualification, mode of nominatio^appointment, election, retirement, and rotation of members of such Conservancy Board. 3. To transfer to and vest in the Conservancy Board, on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the Bill, all or some of the powers, duties, rights, privileges,and liahiluie* with relation to the navigation of the river how vested in the Company or in the River D.e < ommissloners or their supervisors respectively, or in the .Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of Cluster (herein- after called the Chester Corporation), >r anv other Corporation or person nnder the Acts Parliament hereinafter or any charter. or by prescription or otherwi> and r, vest in such Conservancy Board, upon such terms and conditions as aforesaid, all or some of the em- bankments and other works constructed by the Company for navigation purposes, and also all or some or so much of the banks of the river, and the bed and soil thereof along the line of the existing navigation as may be defined in the Bill. 4. To constitute the Conservancy Board the Harbour Authority of the port and harbour of Chester, and also within the limits aforesaid, so far as they may be outside the limits of the said port, and to confer upon the Conservancy Board powers to improve the navigation of the said river, and to make and maintain such embank- ments, mounds, fences, river walls, dams, cuts, sluices, locks, reservoirs, channels, and other works as may be necessary for the purposes of such improvement, and also to make bye-laws for the regulation, improvement, and management of the said River Dee, and the estuary thereof, and such other rivers, streams, and watercourses, havens, creeks, and inlets as aforesaid, and the traffic thereon; to set out boundaries and to widen, deepen, straighten, dredge, protect, and otherwise improve the bed, channel, and banks of the said river, and of all parts of the waters and estuary connected therewith to remove all ob- structions to the free navigation of the said river and estuary, and to prohibit the erection of future obstructions; to impose penalties on all persons placing or continuing obstructions, or throwing, emptying, or depositing ballast in the said river or estuary; to appoint and remove harbour-masters, collectors, and other officers; to place buoys, beacons, perches, and mooring chains in the said river and estuary; to regulate and manage the police thereof, and to regulate the traffic thereon to compel the removal of wrecks therefrom, and to make, maintain, grant, and license basins, docks, harbours, piers, wharves, jetties, quays, and land- ing-stages, with all proper conveniences for the navigation and improvement of the said river and estuary, and for the safety and convenience of ships, steam-vessels, and other craft navigating the same. 5. To vest in the Conservancy Hoard the exist- ing ferries across the navigation oi the River Dee, o ü and to make further provision for the passage of traffic across the river, and the improvement of the ferries and approaches thereto, by the maintenance and establishment of steam ferries, or in such other manner as may be provided by the Bill, and to authorise the Conservancy Board to take tolls and charges for the of the improved ferries by passengers, animals, and vehicles, and to empower the Quarter Sessions of the County of Flint, and any highway authority of any district including or adjoining the ferries and the approaches thereto, to assume the maintenance and working the said ferries and approaches, and to contribute funds therefor, or for the improvement thereof, and to enter into agreements for all or any of those purposes. 6. To transfer to and vest in the Conservancy Board all or some of the existing powers of the Trustees for putting into execution the Act 16, Geo. 0, cap. 61 (!o>:al and personal), r*-latin^ to the piiorage, buoying, and lighting, within the Port of Chester, whether under that Act or any Act amending the same or the Mer- chant Shipping Acts, and to provide for the extinction and winding-up of the Trust. 7. To enable the Conservancy Board to build, purchase, hire, let, and charge for the use of tug- boats, and to supply and charge for the supply of ballast, and to license tug-boats and the masters thereof, and to prohibit within the limits aforesaid, the use of any tug-boat not licensed by, or being commanded by a ma-ter licensed by the Conser- vancy Hoard/and to suspend and revoke such licenses. S. To enable the Conservancy Board to construct and maintain in the Counties of ( "heater and Flint, and the City and the County of the City of Chester, some or one of them, the several works follow amelv — [ Parliamentary Notices. WORK Nu. 1. ¡ The diversion of the present channel and course of the River Dee, by a new cut situate wholly in the Township and Parish of St. Mary-on-the-HilI, in the City and County of the City of Chester, com- mencing at a point on the left bank of the said river, about 4 chains measured across the bed of the said river in a southerly direction from the outfall into the said river of the Sewage Works of the City of Chester, and terminating by a o junction with that river at a point on the left bank of the said river, opposite the Crane Wharf, and at a distance from the west corner of that wharf of about 4 chains measured in a westerly direction across the bed of the said river. WORK No. 2. A dock or basin formed by an embankment or dam, with tidal gates therein, commencing at a point on the right hank of the River Dee, in the Township and Parish of Holy and Undivided Trinity, in the City and County of the City of Chester, about 5 chains south-west of the outfall of the said sewage works, measured along the right bank of that river, and extending in an easterly direction across the lied of that river and the ad- joining land, and terminating in the same township and parish on the right bank of that river, at a point about 4 chains south of the west corner of the Crane Wharf, measured along the right bank of that river. The said Dock or Basin will be constructed partly on the bed of the said river, and partly on the land adjoining thereto, both lying to the north- east of the said embankment, and situate in the Townships and Parishes next mentioned, or one of them, and the Work No. 2 will be made from, through, into, or in the said Townships and Parishes of Holy and Undivided Trinity and St. Mary-on-the-Hill, or one of them. WORK No. 3. In connection with the said dock or basin a Conduit or Culvert, with Sluices, wholly in the said Township and Parish of Holy and Undivided Trinity, to carry the sewage from the said Sewage Works into the said river below the said Dock or Basin, commencing by a junction with the existing outfall of the said Sewage Works at a point about 1 chain north-west of the said outfall, measured along the same and terminating at a point about 7 chains south-west of the said outfall, measured along the right bank of the River Dee. WORK No. 4. A training wall in the bed of the River Dee, or the estuary thereof, commencing at the north- westerly end of the existing training wall or stone causeway at a point in or adjoining the Township of Kelstertou and Parish of North op, known M the Barrel Perch, and thence proceeding in a north-westerly direction ill, over, and upon the bed of the River Dee or the estuary thereof, to and terminating in the said estuary, nearly opposite the outermost extremity of the Spoil Bank of Messrs. Muspratt's Chemical Works at Flint, at a point in the Township of Coleshill Fawr,and Parish of Holywell, about 2 furlongs and 3 chains from the western municipal boundary of the Borough of Flint (as shown on the ordnance plan) measured in a south-easterly direction from a point on that boundary distant about 3 furlongs and 8 chains from the Panton Cop. measured along that boundary in a north-'asterly direction. This work will be made from, through, into, or in the several Townships and Parishes following, or some of them, in the County of Flint, viz. Kelsterton, Lead- brook Maj'»rand L^adbrook Minor, Northop, Flint, Coleshill Fawr, and Holywell. 9. To authorise the Conservancy Board to cross, stop up, alter, or divert, either temporarily or permanently, roads, streets, highways, bridges, footways, ways and lights of way, railways, tramways, canals, aqueducts, rivers, navigations, streams, pipes, sewers, drains, and watercourses, which it may be necessary to cross, stop up, alter, or divert for the purposes of the intended works and of the Bill, and to deviate, laterally and vertically to any extent, from the lines and levels of the works, as sl1, wu on the plans and sections to be deposited as hereinafter mentioned. 10. To enable the Conaervancy Board within the limits aforesaid, to construct and maintain, remove, alter, lengthen, curtail, raise or lower all cuts, channels, locks, weirs, dams, basins, reservoirs, ponds, trenches, pounds, graving-docks, lay-byes, gates, sluices, culverts, sewers, drains, bye-passes, arches, bridges (fixed or opening), sewers, drains, embankments, training walls, causeways, tow i i ig paths, walls, jetties, landing places, doipiiins, moorings, mooring chains, buoys, perches, beacons, lights, staithes. groins, quays, wharves, warehouses, sheds, buildings, engines, pumps, machinery, cranes, lifts, tips, drops, railways, roads, tramways, rails, approaches, works and appliances which may be necessary or convenient for, or incidental to, the before-mentioned works or any of them, or fur the navigation of the said river and the tiaffic thereon. 11. To authorise the Conservancy Board to divert into the intended new cuts, docks, and other works, the waters of the River Dee and the Shropshire Union Canal, and to enter upon, take, and use the bed, channel, and banks of the said river, where the same may be coincident with or intersected by the intended works, and to supersede and discontinue the use for the purposes of navi- gation, and to till in and level, or otherwise deal c) with so much of the present channel or course of the River Dee as lies between the hereinbefore- described points of commencement and termination of W ork N o. 2 as may be rendered unnecessary by the construction of the intended works, or any of them, and to make provision for the vesting in the Con- servancy Board, or the Company, or others, of the lands so tilied in. .1: Tu authorise the Conservancy Board, from time to time, to purchase, take on lease, or otherwise acquire, compulsorily or by agreement, lands, houses, buildings, miils, warehouses, sheds, wharves, for•- shore, and other property and easements thereover, thereunder, or in respect thvreof, and to vary and extingi: such rights of way. manorial, coin- luouahi*, and other rights and privileges as it may be necessary or expedient to vary or extinguish for any or the purposes of the bill, and particularly to purchase, or otherwise acquire, compulsorily or by agreement, the following lands, buildings, houses, and property, in addition to those required for the purposes of the said works, that is to say :— « (o) the nulls at both ends of the weir at the old Dee Bridge, ia the City of Chester, together with the lands, buildings, rights, and appurtenances belonging thereto, and aho the said weir, with the salmon pass and cage adjoining thereto, the whole of which properties are in the Townships and Pal-islies of St. Mary-on-the-lTill, and St. Bridget, or one of th: in. in the said City and County of the City of Chester. (11) Lands, houses, lock, wharves, warehouses, sheds, workshops, the River I)ee lying within th*> following boundaries, viz.: NewCraae Street,Sealaad Koad, an imaginary straight line t'roni the bridge on the Seal and Road, near the sluice hou-e. to a point "II the right bank of the said liver, distant about 8 chains from the outfall of the said Sewage Works, measured in a south-westerly direction from the said outfall, an imaginary straight line from that, point across the bed of the said river and adjoining lands to the north-eastern boundary of the Chester Gas Works on the right bank of the said riv**r. the edge of the said bank to the Crane Wharf. aiid thence to New Crane Street. The whole 01 which properties are in the said Townships ami Parishes of St. Mary- on-the-Hill and liuly and Undivided Trinity, or one of them. (c) Bands, forelaq k cons, banks, parts of the bed of the River Dee. w.'i.irvei. houses, and buildings lying within the following boundaries, viz. I I all imaginary line about parallel to and on the north and west of and at a distance of about 7 chains from the mht bank of the said river, Parliamentary Notices. ironi a poiilt arxmi o ciuuhs trom tile soticn-easr, corner of the said Sewage Works, measured in a north-westerly direction along the south-western boundary fence of the said Sewage Works, to opposite Wepre Gutter, thence to and across the bed of the said river, to a point about 3 chains from the outfall of the Wepre Gutter into the said river measured up that gutter, and an imaginary line about parallel to and on the south and east of and at a distance of about 7 chains from the left bank of the said river, to opposite to the said south-east corner of the said Sewage Works, and thence across the river to that corner, and thence along the south-western boundary of those works for a distance of about 6 chains. The whole of which properties are in the Townships and Parishes of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Sealand, Saltney, Wepre, Hawarden and Northop, or some of them, in the County of Flint and the City and County of the City of Chester. H (d) Lands, forelands, cops, banks, wharves,stages, buildings, and parts of the bed of the River Dee, or the estuary thereof, lying within the following boundaries, viz.. an imaginary straight line from the Powder Magazine, in the occupation of Messrs. Hughes and Lancaster, in the township of Sealand, and the said parish of Hawarden, near the right bank of the River Dee, to a point distant about 2 furlongs and 3 chains from the junction of the work known as the Broken Bank, with the right bank of the said river, measured along that bank in a northerly direction a straight line from that point along the said Broken Bank in a southerly direction and across the bed of the said river, and thence along the left bank of the said river to opposite the said magazine, and across the bed ot the said river to the said magazine; the whole of which properties are in the townships and parishes of Sealand, Hawarden, Wepre, Golftyn, Northop, or some of them, in the Countv of Flint. 13. To provide for the conversion of the mills at both ends of the weir at the old Dee Bridge, in the city of Chester, into steam mills, or to other purposes, and to make agreements with the owners or lessees thereof for the conversion of the same, or otherwise in relation thereto, and to empower the Conservancy Board to make, maintain, and regulate sluices or floodgates in the said weir. 14. To exempt the Conservancy Board from the operation of Section 92 of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, so as to enable them to purchase compulsorily parts only of certain pro- perties. 15. To enable the Conservancy Board to hold, mortgage, sell, lease, let, or otherwise dispose of, farm, work, and use lands vested, or to be vested in them, and (for such terms or periods as, notwith- standing anything contained in the Harbours, Docks, and Piers Clauses Act 1847, or any other Act or Acts they think proper, or as may be pre- scribed or provided for by the Bill) to lease or grant the use or occupation ot or easements in, and rights orer any warehouses, buildings, sheds, wharves, yards, cranes, machinery, or other con- veniences belonging to or provided by the Con- zn 0 t servancy Board. 16. To enable the Company to hold, mortgage, sell, exchange, lease (either for building, wharf- age, or other purposes), let or otherwise dispose of, farm, work, and use any lands or other property now belonging to, vested, or to be vested, in, or reclaimed, or to be reclaimed, by the Company, and to confirm and sanction all or any previous transactions relative to lands, and to make all necessary provision for the drainage of all or any of such lands. 17. To define the lands which have been re- claimed by works of reclamation by the Company, and which are, after the passing of the Bill, to be held and enjoyed by them in manner to be thereby provided, and to make provision for settling by agreement between all corporations or persons claiming lands adjoining any lands claimed by the Company, on the south or Flintshire side of the river, the boundaries between the same, and the laying out of roads, and in case of disagreement to provide for the settlement thereof by arbitration, and to confer on all such persons as may be under any disabilities power to enter into and carry into efleet any such agreement. 18. To make provision for the maintenance of all existing roads, watercourses, and sluices, now repairable by the Company, and to transfer the charge of the maintenance thereof to the townships or parishes in which the same maybe situate, and to provide for the laying-out. making and mainten- ance of roads, watercourse; drains, sluices, and other works in, over, or upon any lands hereafter to be reclaimed by the Company, and for the pur- poses of the drainage of the same, and the uplands thereof, to use and interfere with all or any work of the Conservancy Board. 19. To exempt and discharge the white sands and the lands already reclaimed, or which shall hereafter be reclaimed, either forthwith or when the said lands stiall be sold or otherwise conveyed or alienated, and to exempt and discharge all lands, which have hithertofore belonged to and have been sold or ot tier wise conveyed or alienated by the Conv pany, from all liability with respect to the main- tenance of the said navigation, and the banks, causeways, and other works connected therewith, and the compensation for damage which may have been or may be occasioned by the acts or defaults of the Company or the Conservancy Board, and from the payment of the two annuities to the Hawarden Embankment Trustees hereinafter mentioned, and the maintenance of two ferries across the River Dee below Chester, and the maintenance and repair of certain roads, and all other general liabilities, absolute or contingent, touching the matters aforesaid, imposed on the said lands or the owners or occupiers thereof, by or in consequence of the acts hereinafter specified, relating to the Company, or by the Bill. 20. To enable the Conservancy Board to redeem or commute both or either of the annuities of L200 and f,50 payable by the Company to the Hawarden Embankment Trustees by the payment of a capital sum, oi hy such other means as the Bill may define, and as mav be agreed on between the parties, and to authorise the said trustees to enter into and carry into effect such agreements, and to accept any such sum of money or other consideration for the redemption or commutation of the said annuities, and to provide for the investment thereof, and the application of its income, and the appointment and change of trustees of such investment. 21. To enable or to require the Conservancy Board for-all or some of the purposes herein specified, or for such purposes as shall from time to time be subsisting, to impose and Lty oIllhe owners and occupiers of all or any of the lands already reclaimed from the River Dee, and on the owners and occupiers of all such lands as shall lier-eafter I be reclaimed, an annual acreage or other rate, and that, either in addition to or in substitution for the charges, bit:df n. r liabilities to which such lands may lie >ubj*-e{. with usual powers of distress and entry if -uch rates shall be unpaid, and to provide t.}1' tile commutation or redemption of ad or any part of such acreage or other rate by such owners. 22. To repeal, alter, modify, or transfer to the Conservancy Board, all tolls, rates, town, quay, coal, and ballast, or other rates and dues levied or authorised to be levied upon or in respect of ships, vessels, or other craft, on goods, wares, merchandise, ballast, and other commodities, laden or unladen, entering into or using the said navigation within the limits aforesaid, and ail exclusive rights and privileges connected there- with; and also to levy the same, or other rents, tolls, rates, and duties to be prescribed by the Bill, and to compound for tolls, rat- resits, and duties and to confer, vary, or extinguish ex- emptions from tolls, rates, and duties, and lo vary or extinguish all other rights and privileges which may in any manner interfere with the im- ""1'OVI'>H1Qtlt, of the navigation of the said river and Parliamentary Notices. ] -t-ar>, C'I .1.1 l.L" .1 "l ;J..tO" J by the lhll. 23. To enable the Conservancy Board to raise such funds as may lie prescribed by the Bill for the purposes of improving and upholding the said navigation, and of the Bill, by mortgage or in such other way as may be agreed on or prescribed by the Bill, and to attach to any securities created by such Board any preference or priority; and also to enable the Conservancy Board to apply such funds to the purposes of the Bill. 24. To authorise or require the Great Western Railway Company, the London and North Western Railway Company, the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company, the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway Company, the Buckley Railway Company, the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company, and the Cheshire Lines Committee, or any of them, to subscribe to the funds of the Conservancy Board, and to empower all or any of those Companies to enter into traffic and other agreements with the Conservancy Board. 25. To provide for the formation of the intended works into one or more separate undertakings of the Conservancy Board, which may be under separate management as may be prescribed by the Bill, and that the funds to be appropriated to and the moneys to be borrowed on mortgage of such under. takings respectively, and the revenues to be derived therefrom, shall be kept separate as regards each undertaking, and to provide for the keeping of all such separate accounts and for all other such matters as may be necessary or proper for carrying out the objects of the Conservancy Board with respect to such separate undertakings, or under. taking, or as may be defined by the Bill. 26. To empower the Conservancy Board and the Company, or either of them, on the one hand, and the Chester Corporation, the mayor, alder- men and burgesses of the borough of Flint, or either of them, and any other local authority, on the other hand, to enter into and carry into effect contracts, agreements, and arrangements for or with respect to the construction and main- tenance of the intended works or any of them, or any paii or parts thereof respectively, and the works and conveniences connected therewith, the acquisition and appropriation of lands and property, the contribution of funds, the execution of works, the levying of tolls, and the exercise of any of the powers of the Bill by the Company or by the Conservancy Board or the Corporations or any other local authority, and any incidental matters, < and to sanction and confirm any con- tracts, agreements, or arrangements, which have been or may be made with reference to all or any of such matters, and to confer upon the Corpora- tions and every other Local Authority aforesaid respectively, or any or either of them in further- ance of any such agreement, all or any of the powers of the Bill, including powers of construction and maintenance, the levying of tolls, and purchase of lands, and contribution of funds towards the intended undertaking, and to authorise or provide for the vesting in the Corporations, or any such Local Authority aforesaid, or any or either of them, of the intended works, or any of them or any part or parts thereof respectively, and to enable the Corporations, and any such Local Authority as aforesaid respectively, for all or any of the purposes of the Bill, to raise further moneys by rates or on mortgage, bond, or debentures, annuities, or otherwise. 27. The Bill will, or may authorise the Company to execute and maintain the trended works, or some of them, as part of their own undertaking, and to exercise the powers proposed to be granted to the Conservancy Board, and either inde- pendently, • and instead of 'he Conservancy Board, or jointly with the Conservancy Board, in such proportions, and upon such conditions, and with such restrictions as the Bill shall define or may be agreed upon b<-tween the Company and the Conservancy Board, uuder the authority of the Bill. and will, or may also enable the Com- pany to subscribe or contribute funds towards the construction and maintenance of the said intended works, or some part or parts thereof, and to guarantee such interest, annual and other pay- ments, in respect of the moneys expended in the construction thereof, as may be agreed upon be- tween the Company and the Conservancy Board and to apply for the purposes aforesaid, or any of them, any capital or funds now or hereafter be- longing to the Company, or under the control of their Directors, and (if they shall think fit) to raise additional capital by the creation of new shares, wilh M without preference or priority, \n the payment of dividends, and by mortgage, or by any of those means. 28. To alter, modify, and amend, or repeal, the constitution of the Company, and the powers vested in them by the Acts hereinafter mentioned or any of them, in so far as may be necessary or convenient for the pui poses of the Bill or otherwise, and to regulate their present capital by consolida- tion, increase, reduction, re-arrangement, or other- wise, and to conier upon them further capital and other powers with reference to their internal affairs and management, and to raise further money by shares, borrowing, or other means to be prescribed by the Bill, and in the event of the Conservancy Board being formed, to change the name of the Company to that of The Dee Land Company," or to such other name as may be prescribed by the Bill. 2U. To authorise the Conservancy Board to acquire by purchase, agreement, or otherwise, the reclaimed lands, and any other property, rights, and privileges of the Company, and also the powers, rights, and privileges of the Company as to future reclamation, and any other powers possessed by the Company; and in case of a purchase of all the Company's properties, l ights, and powers, to pro- vide for the winding-up and dissolution of the Company. 30. To repeal all provisions of the Acts herein- after mentioned relative to the River Dee Commissioners, and the supervisors of the river, and to abolish, extinguish, or modify those offices, and any emoluments or other provision connected therewith, and all other jurisdictions, duties, rights, privileges, tolls, and dues, or otherwise affecting the said river, and to make other pro- visions in lieu thereof. visions in lieu thereof. 31. To abolish all tolls and customs in the nature of anchorage dues leviable by the Chester Corporation within the Port of Chester, by virtue of any charter or other authority, upon all ships and vessels resorting to the port. 32 To repeal the provisions as to the depth to be maintained in the navigable channel of the j river, as prescribed by the Act 17, Geo. II., cap. :38, or by any other of the Acts hereinafter mentioned, and* the* means of ascertaining the same, and in lieu thereof to make other provisions if necessary. 33. To authorise the Conservancy Board and the Connuuiv tor all or any of the IJurposes of the Bill, to r'itei- into and fulfil contracts and agree- ments, and the Bill will or may confirm any such contract oi agreement which may have been entered into prior to the passing of the Bill. :a, To incorporate with the Bill all or some of the provisions of the Commissioners Clauses Act, 1817; the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 184 5; and the Companies Clauses Act, 1863, as amended by the Companies Clauses Act, 1869. the Harbour, Docks, and Piers Clauses Act, 184/ the Removal of Wrecks Act, 1877; the Lands' Clauses Consolidation Acts, 1845, 1860, and 1869, as amended by the Lands Clauses (Umpire) Act, 1883, and the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and any other Acts which it may be necessary or expedient to incorporate for effecting the objects of the Bill. f 35. To alter, amend, extend, enlarge, or repeal the poweis and provisions of the several Acts following, or such of them as may be still in force, and of any other Acts relating to the navigation of the River Dee. namelv. Parliamentary Notices. 0_ ii ami lz >% lit. lii.. hciiig An Act to enaoij the Mayor and Citizens of the City of Chester to recover and preserve the Navigation upon the River Dee;" and (local and personal) 6 Ceo. II., cap. 30, being "An Act to recover and preserve the Navigation of the River Dee in the County Palatine of Chester 14 Geo. II., cap. 8 17 Geo. 11., cap. 28; 26 Goo. 11., cap. 35; 31 Geo. III., cap. 88; the Dee Standard Restoration Act, 1851 the River Dee Company (Amendment) Act, 18G8 and the loc.d and personal Act 16 Geo. III., cap. Gl, relating to pilotage, buoying, and lighting ,71 within the Port of Chester, also the several local and personal Acts foi.owing, or some of them, re- lating to the Lower King's Ferry Road, in the County of Flirt (that is to say, 5 and 6 Will. I V., cap. 4 1 Vict., cap. 19; 23 and 24 Vict., cap, 32 5 and 6 Will. IV., cap. 88), and all other Acts, charters, grants', customs, rights, and privileges which direc. ;y or indirectly affect the River Dee or the navigation thereof, or the ferries and approaches thereto, or the Company, and which may be inconsistent or would interfere with the powers and pr. visions of the Bill. 36. And notice is hereby further given that on or before the 29th day of November 1884, duplicate plans and sections showing the lines and levels of the intended works, and the lands and property proposed to be taken for the purposes of the Bill, together with Books of Reference to such plans, containing the names of the owners and lessees, or reputed owners and lessees, and occupiers of such lands and property, and a copy of this Notice, as published in the London Gazette," will be deposited for public in- spection with the Clerk of the PCJ'e for the County of Chester, at his office at Chester, and with the Clerk of the Peace for the County of Flint, at his office at Mold, in that county with the Clerk of the Peace for the City and County of the City of Chester, at his office in the said city and that on or before the same day copies of so much of the said plans, sections, and book of reference, as relates to the several parishes and extra- parochial places in or through which the intended works will be made, or in which any lands or other property intended to be taken are situate, together with 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. 37. Printed copies of the Bill will be deposited in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons on >r before the 20th day of December 1884. Dated this 12th dav of November 1884. I ANDREW and CO., Palace Chambers, t). Bridge Street, Westminster, S.W.. Solicitors for the Bill. TAHOURDINS and HARGRAVES, 1, Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W., Parliamentary Agents for the Bill.

IN PARLIAMENT. SESSION 1885. WOIRRAL RAILWAY. (New Railways in the Counties of Chester and Flint Compulsory Porchnse of Lauds, Tolls, Rates, and Charges Addi ional Capital Woik- ingand Traffic Agreements Amendment of Acts, &c.) I -yrOTICE IS HEREBY GTVKN, that the Wirral J^j Railway Company (hereinafter called the Company ") intend to apply to Parliament, in Ses- sion 1 SH;; for an Act to enable the Company to ex- ercise the powers and eflt it the objects followiug- ii aniely To make and maintain the Railways'hereimifter described, or some or one of them, with all proper stations, approaches, works, and conveniences con- uected tlierewitli-ilitit is to say 1. A Railway (No. 1) commencing in the Parish of Bidston, and Township of Bidston, in the County of Chester, by a junction with the Railway author- ised by the Wirral Railway Act, 1884, at. the com- mencement thereof-namely the northern boundary fence of the public road from Birkenhead to Moreton, and distant 4 chains or thereabouts measured in an easterly direction from the bench mark on the gatepost leading from the said road into the field numbered 117 ou the 25-inch ord- nance map, thence passing from, through, in, or to the parishes, townships, or places of Bidston, Woodchurch, and Noetorum, and terminating in the Township of Noctorum and Parish of Woodchurch at a point in the field numbered 40 on the 25 inch ordnance map, such point being distant 320 yards from the northern corner ot the said field measured in a southerly direction, and distant 110 yards measured in a south-easterly direction from the north-eastern coiner of field numbered 39 on the said map. 2. A Railway (No. 2) commencing in the Parish of Woodchurch and Township of Noetorum, in the County of Chester, by a junction with the intended Riilway No. 1 at the termination thereof before described, thence passing from, in, through, or into the townships, parishes, and places of Noctorum, Oxton, Prenton, Storeton, Barnston, Brimstage, Thornton Hough, Leighton, Great Neston, Wood- church, Bebington, Bromborough, and Neston, all in the County of Chester, and terminating in the said Parish of Neston at a point in the fence form- ing the southern boundary of the field numbered 296 on the 25-inch ordnance map, such point being distant 60 yards or thereabouts measured in an easterly direction along the line of the said fence from the south-westerly corner of the said field. 3. A Railway (No. 3) wholly in the said Parish of Neston and Township of Great Neston, com- mencing by a junction with the intended Railway No. 2, at the termination thereof before described, and termilating at a point on the fence forming the eastern boundary of the field numbered 492 on the said 25-inch ordnance map, such point being distant four yards or thereabouts measured in a n irtherly direction along the said fence 'from the south-easterly corner of the said field. 4. A Railway (No. 4) commencing in the said parish of Neston and Township of Great Neston by a junction with the intended Railway No. 3 at the termination thereof before described, thence passing fiom, in, through, or into the townships, parishes, and places of Great Neston, Little Neston, Ness, Burton, and Neston, in the County of Chester, ami Kelsterton, Golftyn, Wepre, Sealand, Northop, and Hawarden, in the County of Flint, and terminating in the Township of Sealand, in tha Parish of Hawarden, at the foot of the north-easterly slope of the embankment on the north-east side of the River Dee by a junction with the Railway No 1, authorised by the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Chester to Connah's Quay) Railway Act, 1881, at a p lint distant 4 chains and 15 liuks or thereabouts, measured in a north- westerly direction along the said embankment from the north side of the culvert passing from the field numbered U7 on the said 2 > inch ordnance map through the said embankment. 5. A Railway (No. 5) commencing in the Parish of Northop and Township of Wepre, in the County of Flint, by a junction with the intended Railway No. 4 at a point in the estuary of the River Dee distant about 8:3 chains measured in a northerly direction from the magazine near the channal of the River Dee, nearly opposite the Wepre Gutter, and 24 chains or thereabouts to the north west of the boundary line of the Parishes of Northop and Hawarden shown in the 6.iuch ordnance map, thence passing from, in, through, or into the townships, parishes, and places of Northop, Hawar- den, Wepre, and Sealand, in the County of Flint, and terminating in the said Township of Sealand by a junction with the Railway No. 1, authorised by the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Chester to Connah's Quay) Railway Act, 1884, at a point distant 105 yards, measured along the centre line of the sa d railway as shewn in the deposited plans thereof, in a westerly direction from the intersection thereof with the north-western boundary of the road leading from Eastham to Queen's Ferry, and distant 11 chains measured in a northerly direction from the milestone on the said road indicating 1 mile from Queen's Ferry. ti. A Railway (No. c) wholly situate in the said Parish of Woodchurch, in the County of Chester, commencing by a junction with Railway No 3, 1 y authorised by the Wirral Railway Ceitifictte, 1883. in the Township of Oxton, at a point in the lh Id numbered 167 on the '25-inch ordnance map distant 8 chains and 15 links or thereabout*, measured in a westerly direction, along the liae of the said 6U horised Railway from the west si ie of Holm- lane, and terminating in the Township of Pieuton by a junction with the iutend(d Railway Ne. 2 before described at a point in the field numbered 10 -=- -==-= =-=-=-=- ( Parliamentary Notices. on the said 25-inch ordnance map distant 7 chains and 30 links or thereabout*, measured in a southerly direction from the south bide "f the public road lead- ing from Birkenhead to Woodchurch, and 3 chaiusor thereabouts, measured in a westerly direction "from the south-western corner of the western end of the occupation road numbered 13 on the eaid ordnance map. To deviate laterally and also vertically from the lines and levels of the intended railways and works shewn on the plaus and sections deposited as here- inafter mentioned: to cross, stop up, alter, or divert, temporarily or permanently, roads, streets, highways, bridges, railways, tramways, ..wers, drains, pipes, tubes, streams, and watercourses, canals and rivers, with which it may be necessary to interfere for the purposes of the intended Act; to purchase and acquire, by compulsion or agreement, lands, houses, and hereditaments, and easements. and rights in and over lands, houses, and hereditaments, for the purposes of the in- tended railways and works; to levy tolls, rates, and charges fur and in icspcet of the use of such railways and works '•onnected therewith, and to confer, vary, or extinguish exemptions from :he payment of tolls, rates, aud charges. To apply, for the purposes of the intended Acts, any capital or funds which the Company have raised or have power to raise, aud also for such purposes, and the general purposesjof their'under- taking, to raise additional capital by ordinary or preference shares or stock, and by mortgage or by the creation and issue of debenture stock, or by any of those means, or by such other means asJParlia- ment may authorise and direct. To alter, vary, or extinguish all rights and privileges connected with the lands, houses, and hereditaments proposed to be purchased or taken which would in any manner impede or interfere with the use thereof for the purposes of the intend- ed Act, and to confer, var), or extinguish other rights and privileges. The intended Act will empower the Company, on the one hand, and the Mersey Railway Company, the Seacombe, Hoylake, and Deeside Railway Company, the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln- shire Railway Company, the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway Company, the London and North-Western Railway Company, and the Great Western Railway Company, or any one or more of those Companies, on the other hand, from time to I time to enter into and carry into effect contracts, I agreements, and arrangements with respect to the use, working, management, and maintenance of the railways, or some part or parts of the railways and works of the contracting companies the supply and maintenance of engines, stock, and plant, and the employment of officers and servants fur the working, c. m veyance, and conduct of the traffic on the railways or portions of railways for- m.ng the subject of any 811"h contract or agree- ment the management, regulation, interchange, collection, transmission, and delivery of traffic upon or coming from or destined for the railways of the contracting companies: the fixing, collection, pay- ment, division, and appropriation of the tolls, fares. rates, and revenue arising from such traffic; and the intended Act will or may sanction or confirm any such contract or agreeniont, which, previous to the passing thereof, may be made touching any of the aforesaid matters. The intended Act will incorporate all or some of the provisions of the Companies Clauses Consolida. tion Act, IrS45, the Companies Clauses Acts 1863 and 186ii, the Lands Clauses Caugolidation |Acts 1845,1860, and 1869, the Railways Clauses Con- solidation Act 1845, and the Railways clauses Act, 1863; and it will, if necessary, amend, enlarge, or repeal some of the provisions of the Wirral Rail- way Certificate, 1883, and the Wirral Railway Act, 1884, local and personal Acts, 29 and 30 Vict., cap. 139, 31 and 32 Vict., cap. 161, 34 and 35 Vict., cap. 201 and other Acts relating to the Mersey Railway Company 35 and 36 Vict., cap. 127, 36 and 37 Vict., cap. 239, and the other Acts relating to the Seacombe, Hoylake, and Deeside Railway Company; 12 and 13 Viot., cap. 81, and the other Acts relating to the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company 25 and 26 Vict., cap. 221, 27 and 28 Vict., cap. 234, and the other Acts relating to the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway Company 5 and 6 Will. IV., cap. 107, and the other Acts relating to the Great Wes- 107, and the other Acts relating to the Great Wes- tern Railway Company; 9 and 10 Vict., cap. 204, and the other Acts rebiting to the London and North-Western Railway Company. And notice is hereby Given, that on or before the 30th day of November instant plans and sections showing the lines and levels of the intended railways and the land and other property which may be taken for the purposes thereof, with a book of reference to such pains and ordnance map with the lines of the intended railways delineated thereon and a copy of this notice as published in the "L mdon Gazette," will be deposited for public inspection with the Clerk of the Peace for the County of Chester, at his office at Chester, and with the Clerk of the Peace for the County of Flint, at his office at Mold and OIl or before the 30th instant a copy of so much of the said plans and sections and book of reference as relates to.each parish in or through which the intended railways or any part thereof will be made or pass, together with a copy of this notico will be deposited for public inspection with the Parish Clerk of each such parish, at his residence, and in the case of any extra-parochial place, with the Parish Clerk of some adjoining parish, at his residence. Printed copies of the bill for the intended Act will be desposited in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons on or before the 21st day of December next. Dated this 11th day of November, 1884. GILL and ARCHER, 14, Cook street, Liverpool, I BIRCH, CULLIMORE. and )■ Solicitors DOUGLAS, j Friars, Chester J WILLIAM BELL, 27, Great George street, Westmiuøter, Parliamentary Agent.