§ "To confer additional powers upon the Midland Railway Company, and upon that Company and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, and upon the Midland and North-Eastern Railway Companies Committee, and upon the Northern Railways Joint Committee for mittee, and upon the Midland and Great Northern Railways Joint Committee for the construction of works and the acquisition of lands; to authorise agreements between the Midland, Lancashire, and Yorkshire, and Great Northern Railway Companies, and between the Midland and Midland and South-Western Junction Railway Companies; to provide for the vesting of the undertakng of the Barnoldswick Railway Company in the Midland Railway Company; and for other purposes," read the first time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills.