Chapter XXXVI: Section 16: That if any person shall wilfully obstruct or impede

any Officer or Agent of any Railway Company in the execution of his duty upon any Railway, or upon or in any of the Stations or other Works or Premises connected therewith; or if any person shall wilfully trespass upon any Railway, or any of the Stations or other Works or Premises connected therewith, and shall refuse to quit the same upon request to him made by any Officer or Agent of the said Company, every such person so offending, and all others aiding and assisting therein, shall and may be seized and detained by any such Officer or Agent, or any person whom he may call to his assistance, until such offender or offenders can be conveniently taken before some Justice of the Peace for the county or place wherein such offence shall be committed, and, where convicted before such Justice as aforesaid (who is hereby authorised and required upon complaint to him upon oath to take cognizance thereof and to act summarily in the premises), shall, at the discretion of such Justice, forfeit to Her Majesty any sum not exceeding 5_l._, and in default of payment thereof shall or may be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two Calendar months; such imprisonment to be determined on payment of the amount of the penalty.

_I,
being this
engaged as
in the service of the London and North-Western Railway Company,
do hereby bind myself to observe and obey the foregoing
Rules and Regulations, which I have read (or heard read) and
understand, and all others that may from time to time be issued
for the better government of the Company, so long as I remain a
servant in it._

THE END.

London: Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES and SONS, Stamford Street.

Transcriber’s Note:

Words and phrases in italics are surrounded by underscores, _like this_. Obvious printing errors, such as partially printed letters and punctuation, were corrected. Duplicate letters at line endings or page breaks were removed.

Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. Obsolete and alternative spellings were left unchanged. Four misspelled words were corrected.

Numbered paragraphs in Chapter XIV begin with 2.