LONDON AND SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY BILL.

HC Deb 18 May 1855 vol 138 c764

MR. BECKETT

brought up the Report of the Select Committee to whom this Bill had been referred.

In reply to a question from Mr. DEEDES,

MR. BECKETT

stated that the Committee had bound the London and South Western Company to apply to Parliament for power to construct a line either between Dorchester and Exeter, or between Yeovil and Exeter, in conformity with the pledge given by the company in 1852, under the penalty of having their dividends stopped until it was shown by the certificate of the Board of Trade that their failure to obtain an Act for that purpose had been occasioned by no neglect of their own.