§ "To confer additional powers upon the Midland Railway Company and upon the Midland and Great Northern Railways Joint Committee and upon the Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railways Committee for the construction of works 18 and the acquisition of lands; to authorise agreements between the Midland Railway Company and the Midland and South Western Junction Railway Company; to provide for the vesting of the Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway in the Midland and Great Eastern Railway Companies; and for other purposes," read the first time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills.