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Minute of Agreement between Young's Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Company Limited and The Calder etc. Roads Trustees. Dated 26th December 1873. Hand written with signatures.

Minute of Agreement Between Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company and The Calder & Road Trustees

1873 John Gillespie, WS

Minute of Agreement between Young's Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Company Limited carrying on business at Addiewell, near West Calder, and The Trustees of The United District of Calder, Slateford and Corstorphine Turnpike Roads, in the County of Edinburgh.

The said company being desirous of making a Railway from their Number Fifteen Pit to their works at Addiewell, and having applied to the said Road Trustees for leave to cross (First) the Turnpike Road from Edinburgh to Lanark at a point about three hundred and thirty five yards distant from the junction of said of said Road with the Turnpike Road from Edinburgh to Ayr and (second) the Turnpike Road from Edinburgh to Ayr at a point about two hundred and ninety yards distant from its junction with the said Turnpike Road from Edinburgh to Lanark; the said Trustees hereby agree to grant the request of the said Company and inconsideration thereof the said Company hereby agree, and bind and oblige themselves as follows vizt: . . .

First

. . . That the said line of Railway, upon which Locomotive Engines and Trains are to run, shall be carried across each of the said Turnpike Roads at right angles to them; that the existing levels of each of the said Turnpike Roads shall not be altered in laying down said line of Railway across them, and that the Roadways behind the Rails shall be laid with Causeway stones, the whole operations being carried out at the sight, and to the satisfaction of the Surveyor of said Turnpike Roads. . . .

Second

. . . That the said company shall erect, and at all times maintain good and sufficient gates across said Line of Railway upon each side of each of the said Turnpike Roads, so as to keep the Railway shut and the Roads open at all times, except when Trains are actually passing, and shall themselves open and shut said Gates at the passing of each train. . . .

Third

. . . That each company hereby agree and bind and oblige themselves to free and relieve the said Road Trustees of all claims of damages or expenses which may be brought against the said Trustees in consequence of the allowance and formation of said level crossings; and else to pay the expenses of this agreement. . . .

Fourth

. . . The said company hereby agree, and bind and oblige themselves, whenever called upon to do so by the said Road Trustees to remove the said Level Crossings, and to restore the aid Turnpike Roads and fences thereof to their present state and condition; and all to the satisfaction of the said Road Surveyor: In witness where of these presents written on this page of the stamped paper by Andrew Macdonald, clerk to Messrs. Gillespie and Paterson, writers to the signet, Edinburgh, are subscribed in duplicate by the parties as follows right. By James King and James Young, two of the directors, and the Onesiphorus Tyndalle Bruce Gardener, secretary to said company, and sealed with the corporate seal of said company, all at Glasgow the twenty sixth day of December Eighteen hundred and seventy three years, before these witnesses Andrew Smith, Book keeper and James Clark, Chief clerk both to the said company; and by John Gillespie writer to the signet Edinburgh, Clerk to the said Road Trustees at Edinburgh the sixth day of January Eighteen Hundred and served by four before these witnesses John Hamilton Gillespie, his apprentice and the said Andrew Macdonald.

Alisauder Smith, Witness

James Clark, Witness

Hamilton Gillespie, Witness

Andrew Macdonald, Witness

[Signatures]

James King, Director

James Young

One Gardener, secretary

John Gillespie, clerk to the Road Trustees