§ "To authorise the Great Eastern Railway Company to execute further works and to purchase additional lands; to sanction and confirm the purchase of certain lands; to confer further powers upon the Company and the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Committee; to extend the periods limited by former Acts for the purchase of land's and the construction of works by the Company; to provide for the consolidation of certain preference stocks of the Company; and for other purposes." read the first time: and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills.