§ "To empower the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway Company to widen their Carrickfergus and Larne Branch Railway; to construct a pier and embankment or sea road at Whitehead; 823 to confirm the purchase by the Company of the Portstewart Tramway; to confer further powers upon the Company in connection with their Undertaking; and for other purposes," read the first time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills.