124
GLASGOW, PAISLEY, AND GREENOCK RAILWAY.
Engineering and surveying, &c. ....
. £8,817
6
n
Interest on paid-up shares and on loans
4,174
6
7
Witnesses in parliament.
2,623
7
4
Advertising, printing, engraving, &c.
2,106
10
lii
Office-charges, including salaries and furniture
1,800
8
10i
Deputation to London , and miscellaneous
1,794
19
9i
Agency, &c. .......
1,539
2
11
Valuator’s charges, including deputation to Liverpool
1,055
3
2i
Direction.
1,000
0
0
Expenses of taking traffic.
834
1
li
Police, including missionary and surgeon at Bishopton
647
8
44
Travelling charges and expenses . . . - .
218
3
24
Stationery ........
114
10
11
Sundries ........
72
0
24
Amended Act of Parliament.
1,228
11
3
Carriages and wagons.
1,371
16
1
Locomotive engines.
2,601
10
0
£393,835
3
9
This sum of 393,835/. 3s. 9c?. is already within a few thousands of theoriginal estimate, and the railway is very far from being finished. In thisamount is included but a very small sum for carriages and locomotive engines.It is to be observed that only half the cost of that part of the line betweenGlasgow and Paisley is included in this amount. If we add the other moiety,the whole cost of the railway between Glasgow and Greenock , up to the30th May, 1840, will be 498,142/. 10s. 6c/.
THE GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Acts for the incorporation of two of the most important railway Com-panies in the kingdom received the royal assent on the sixth day of May,one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. These Acts authorised theconstruction of the London and Birmingham and Grand Junction Railways,the estimated cost of which, extending together a distance of one hundredand eighty-nine and a half miles, amounted to three millions five hundred