Petitions, representations and other notices served by arbiters and others on behalf of various parties defending submissions against the Scottish Central Railway Company and memorials, answers and other forms of legal advice for the railway company relative to these claims for compensation

• Reference:GB 252 PE/19/Bundle33
• Dates of Creation:1849

• Scope and Content

  Includes:

  Draft Memorial for the Scottish Central Railway Company to the Marquess of Clanricarde, Postmaster General, in respect of a submission by the company for an additional allowance for the conveyance of the mails on Sundays, pointing out that prior to 4 March 1849 there was no Sunday travelling allowed at all on the Scottish Central Railway and further stating that “there is no reasonable prospect of any increase of Sunday travelling on this or any other Scotch line, as the Right Honorable Postmaster General is aware that in that part of the United Kingdom a large portion of the community are strongly opposed to the practice on religious ground”, 1849.

  Copy of the Opinion of Duncan McNeill, Dean of the Faculty, and other advocates on the Memorial for the Scottish Central Railway Company stating that “we still adhere to our former opinion that that the working agreement between the memorialists and the Southern Companies is a valid and legal contract”, 1849.

  Discharge by Peter Fisher “tacksman of the customs of the Burgh of Perth due and exigible at the South Gate Port of the said Burgh” agreeing to accept from the Scottish Central Railway Company “with the view of saving annoyance, trouble and expense to themselves” the sum of £125, 1849.

  Memorial of points for the Scottish Central Railway Company relative to the claim for damages of Daniel McRobie, Bridge of Allan paper mill, 1849.

  Copy of arbiters’ notes in the submission between the heritors and presbytery of Dunkeld and the Scottish Central Railway Company, 1849.

  Copy of Answers for the Scottish Central Railway Company relating to the claim of the managers of King James VI Hospital, Perth remarking that “the present is one of the most extravagant claims that has ever been set up even among the many attempts that have been made to extort money from railway companies. The idea of claiming two thousand pounds per acre for land which had previously not yielded annually to the claimants as many half pence is truly absurd . . . . Upon the whole it is submitted that . . . it is not worth the expense of written pleadings and scarcely worth the expense of a written submission”, 1849.

  State of debt due by the Scottish Central Railway Company to the city of Perth, 1849.

  Minutes for the Scottish Central Railway Company in its submission with Lord Rollo, 1849.

  Notes by the arbiters in submission between the Scottish Central Railway Company and the Caledonian Railway Company, 1849.

  Draft Power of Attorney by the Scottish Central Railway Company in favour of Robert Dow Ker, Perth, 1849.

  Copy measurement and sketch of pieces of ground referred to in the joint minutes of the submission between the heritors of Dunblane and the Scottish Central Railway Company, 1849.

  Draft list of defending submissions between the Scottish Central Railway Company respondents, and owners, lessees and occupiers, claimants, 1849.

  Copy of notes by the arbiters in the submission between the Scottish Central Railway Company and the Caledonian Railway Company, 1849.

  Memorandum regarding the claims against the Scottish Central Railway Company of the Dalreoch, Auchterarder and Gleneagles road trustees, 1849.

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