A collection of the public general acts for the regulation of railways; including the companies, lands, and railways clauses consolidation acts. 1838-1847. With general index

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ... occupying the same lands, or for the exercise of such right of way, and so as not to obstruct the passage along the railway, or to damage the same; nevertheless, if the owner or occupier of any such lands have in his arrangements with the company received or agreed to receive compensation for or on account of any such communications, instead of the same being formed, such owner or occupier, or those claiming under him, shall not be entitled so to cross the railway. 75. If any person omit to shut and fasten any gate set omitting to up at either side of the railway, for the accommodation of fasten gates the owners or occupiers of the adjoining lands, as soon as he, and the carriage, cattle or other animals, under his care, have passed through the same, he shall forfeit for every such offence any sum not exceeding forty shillings. Branch 76. And be it enacted, That this or the special act shall railways, not prevent the owners or occupiers of lands adjoining to the railway, or any other persons, from laying down, Owners either upon their own lands or upon the lands of other may make persons, witn tne consent of sucn persons, any collateral branch rail-brancnes 0I" railway to communicate with the railway, for ways com-the PuT086 0I" bringing carriages to or from or upon the municating railway, but under and subject to the provisions and with the restrictions of an act passed in the sixth year of the reign railway. of her present Majesty, intituled "An Act for the better 5 & 6 Vict. Regulation of Railways, and for the Conveyance of c. 55, s. 13. Troops;" and the company shall, if required, at the expense of such owners and occupiers and other persons, and subject also to the provisions of the said last-mentioned act, make openings in the...