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Papers, [1790]-1921, of and collected by Benjamin Piercy and his estate, relating to civil engineering projects and to the Piercy estate in Flintshire and Denbighshire. They include copies of plans of the following railways: the Wrexham, Mold and Connah's Quay; the Whitchurch, Wrexham and Mold; the Flintshire, Oswestry and Newtown; the Oswestry and Llangynog; the Denbighshire and Shropshire; the North Wales and Birkenhead; the Birkenhead, North Wales and Stafford; the Porthdinlleyn; and the Llangammarch and Neath. There is also a large number of working plans of railways in north-east Wales, particularly those for which Benjamin Piercy was engineer, as well as collections of Acts of Parliament relating to railways in England and Wales, bills, minutes of evidence, speeches, petitions and reports of Railway Commissions. The archive also includes a volume of Acts of Parliament relating to the navigation and conservancy of the river Dee, some Acts relating to north Wales waterworks, copies of correspondence, 1881-1885, between Benjamin Piercy and Henry Robertson of Pale, and minute books, 1888-1920, of the Piercy Trustees, and papers and deeds of Benjamin Piercy's estate mainly in Wrexham, and Marchwiel parish, 1881-1921.

The Book marked 'F' referred to in the affidavit of Evan Morris in the matter of The Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway Company, and The Railway Commissioners, in the Chancery Division, 8 July 1881. It contains the amended Application of the Buckley Traders' Society, 1880; the Answer of the Railway Company, 9 July 1880; a transcript of the Judgment of the Railway Commissioners, 13 August 1880; and the Order of the Commissioners on the same date.

An Act for the better regulation of Railway and Canal Traffic, 1888; Return ... for Draft Rules, 1888; Buckley Railway Company:- Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic, List of Maximum Rates, List of Newspapers in which the Company ... proposes to advertise, Statement of Lines of Railway to which the ... Classification and Schedules are to apply; objections submitted to the Board of Trade against the Classification, &c.; Report ... on the Classification of Merchandise Traffic &c. ... in respect of the Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway Company, 1891; A Bill to confirm a Provisional Order ... of the Cambrian Railway Company, 1892; Petition of the Buckley Traders' Society, 1892; an amendment prposed by the Buckley Traders; a list of rates ... for bricks and pipes from brick works on the Buckley railway to Connah's Quay, 1892; and Minutes of Evidence, taken before the Select Committee on Railway Rates, 8 April 1892.

The book marked 'A' referred to in the affidavit of Evan Morris in the matter of The Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway Company and The Railway Commissioners in the Chancery Division, 8 July 1881. It contains an analysis of the evidence; the Application of the Buckley Traders' Society to the Railway Commissioners; the Answer of the Railway Company, 1876; Correspondence between the parties; Minutes of Evidence, 12, 13, 15 December 1876; the Judgment of the Railway Commissioners, 20 January 1877; a transcript of the Order of the same date; the Judgment of the Railway Commissioners, 31 January 1877; and a notice of appeal by the Railway Company, 3 February 1877.

Extracts from the Chester to Holyhead Railway Act 7 and 8 Victoria cap. LXV.

Transcripts of correspondence, 1881-1888, between Benjamin Piercy and Henry Robertson.

A volume containing a bill for making a Railway from Wrexham ... to Welsh Hampton, 1884; Petition of the Cambrian Railways against the bill; Petition of the Great Western Railway Company against the Bill; a notice of objection to locus standi; Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of the City of Liverpool against the Bill, with notice of objection; Petition of owners, lessees, and occupiers on line of proposed railway; minutes of proceedings; and evidence before the Select Committee of the House of Commons, 11-14 March 1884; amended bill; report, 14 March 1884; An Act for making a Railway from Wrexham ... to Welsh Hampton, 1884; petitions to the House of Lords and a copy of an order against proceeding with the bill, 20 March 1884.

A statement of gradients, curves, etc., on the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway, 1891; the London and North Western Railway Additional Powers Bill, 1891; petitions against the Bill; Minutes of Proceedings taken before the Select Committee on Railway Bills, 6-12 May 1891; the Bill as amended in Committee, 1891; agreement for working traffic between the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway and the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway, 14 December 1888; Report of the Directors of the Wrexham, Mold, & Connah's Quay Railway Company, 1890, and a map of the railway and its connections.

Minutes of evidence and proceedings, before the Select Committee of the House of Commons, on the Manchester, Sheffield, & Lincolnshire Railway (Chester to Connah's Quay) Bill, 11 March - 7 April 1884, with bills, petitions, and speeches.

A copy of a lease of mines of coal and ironstone under the Gatewen Estate near Wrexham to the Broughton Coal Company, 29 September 1873; a copy of The County Herald 16 February 1894, containing a marked column on Connah's Quay drainage; a plan of a sewer; correspondence relating to the same subject, 1888-1894; and papers relating to the water companies of Wrexham, Ruabon, and Brymbo, 1871-1873.

Minutes of evidence, taken before the Referees on Private Bills in the House of Commons, on the Mold and Denbigh Junction Extensions Railway Bill, 30 March 1865.

Two volumes of press cuttings concerning Dee Conservancy, the Dee Railway Bridge, etc., 1882-1886.

A collection of Railway Acts and Papers, manuscript and printed:- An Act to restore the exemption of goods loaded or unloaded on the lands or docks of Robert Vyner ... at Birkenhead, 1865; Articles of Agreement ... between the Wrexham Mold and Connah's Quay Railway Company ... The Wirral Railway Company, and The Seacombe, Hoylake and Deeside Railway Company, 1888; Report by the Board of Trade on the Applications made in the year 1882 under 'The Railways Construction Facilities Act, 1864'; Wirral Railway Act, 1884; Wirral Railway Act, 1888; Wirral Railway Transfer Act, 1889; An Act for making and maintaining Railways from Birkenhead and Poulton-cum-Seacombe to Hoylake in the County of Chester, 1863; An Act for the extension of the Hoylake Railway to New Brighton; and for other purposes, 1865; The Hoylake and Birkenhead Railway and Tramway Act, 1872; Seacombe, Hoylake, and Deeside Railway Act, 1882; Seacombe, Hoylake, and Deeside Railway Act, 1886; The Mersey Railway Acts, 1866, 1871, 1874, 1877, 1880, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, and 1888; The Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Chester to Connah's Quay) Act, 1884; and The Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway Act, 1883.

A collection of Railway Acts and Papers:- The Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway Acts, 1862, 1864, 1865, 1866, 1867, 1869, 1873, 1882, 1883, 1888; a transcript of a warrant by the Board of Trade for the abandonment of extension railways authorised by The Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway Acts, 1873; Buckley Railway Acts, 1863, 1866; Buckley and Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway Companies Act, 1866; The Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Chester to Connah's Quay) Act, 1884; The Welsh Railways Through Traffic Act, 1889; The Wirral Railway Transfer Act, 1889; Articles of Agreement for Working Traffic between the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company and The Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway Company, 1888; The Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway Acts, 1885, 1890; and The Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (Various Powers) Act, 1891.

Minutes of evidence, taken before the House of Commons Select Committee on Private Bills, on the Ellesmere, Ruabon, and Shrewsbury Railway (Oswestry, Ellesmere, and Whitchurch Railway Co.) Bill, The Great Western Railway (Oswestry, Shrewsbury, and Ellesmere Lines) Bill, and the Oswestry, Ellesmere, and Whitchurch Railway Bill.

Mr. Merewether's speech, on the Oswestry, Ellesmere, and Whitchurch, the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay, and the Drayton Junction Railway Bills, before the Select Committee of the House of Commons, 4 May 1863.

Minutes of evidence, taken before the Select Committee of the House of Commons, on the Oswestry, Ellesmere, and Whitchuch, the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay, and the Drayton Junction Railway Bills, 4-6 May 1863.

The decision of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Oswestry, Ellesmere, and Whitchurch, the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay, and the Drayton Junction Railway Bills, 7 May 1863.

Minutes of meetings, 1884-5, held to consider the Dee Conservancy Bill.

Reports of meetings, 1884-1885, held in connection with the River Dee Conservancy Bill; a summary of the position of the River Dee Company and the reasons for the bills introduced into Parliament, 1884-1885; a case for counsel's opinion; and notes of evidence taken in the House of Lords, 1885.