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 bonds under the common seal, or by mortgage of the undertaking, on security of the rates and duties. They are further empowered to purchase sixty acres of land, in such place as the company shall deem most eligible, for the erecting and constructing of yards, staiths, wharfs, quays, landing places, and other conveniences for the loading and unloading of vessels.

RATE,
In addition to the Tolls allowed by the former Act.

Fractions to be taken as for a Quarter of a Mile, and as for a Quarter of a Ton.

Clauses are introduced in the act to restrain the company from the use of locomotive engines, on that part of the City of Durham Branch which passes through the townships of Mainforth and Chilton, or on the Byer's Green Branch, passing through the township of Whitworth, without the consent of the respective land owners, which clauses, if enforced, may act prejudicially to the interests of the company should locomotive engines come into general use.

This railway (which, with its branches, is the longest for which parliamentary sanction has ever been obtained, with the exception of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Carlisle Railway) is directed to be carried into execution, by a committee of eighteen proprietors, who are allowed six years, from the date of the last-recited act, for this purpose. The Deanery Branch is not subject to this limitation, as it may be made any time after the consent of the Earl of Eldon is obtained.

Previous to the second application to parliament, it appears the company had it in contemplation to extend the Deanery Branch to the Stockton and Darlington Railroad at Bishop Auckland, and another branch, of nearly ten miles in length, from the City of Durham Branch to the Hagger Leazes Branch of the last-mentioned railroad, near St. Helen's Auckland, but these were subsequently abandoned,

The object of this undertaking is to open, more effectually, the valuable coal fields and limestone quarries to which the railway