Penrith Nepean Bridge Company Act 1851 15 Vic (NSW)

PenritH NEPEAN

Brice Company.

Preamble.

Proprictors incorpo-

rated by the name of * The Penrith Nepcan Bridge Company."

15° VIC. 1851. Penrith Nepean Bridge Company.

An Act to incorporate a Company to be called " The Penrith Nepean Bridge Company" and to enable the said Company to erect and maintain a Bridge over the River Nepean at Penrith in direct continuation of the present line of the Great Western Road and to take Toll thereat for a term of years and for other

purposes therein mentioned. [15th December, 1851.]

HEREAS the very considerable traffic between the western part

of this Colony and its shipping port is greatly impeded and delayed at the passage of the River Nepean at Penrith the only mode of transit being by the Government punt or ferry known as Emu Ferry and the tolls payable thereat are onerous and disproportioned to the convenience afforded to the public by the same And whereas the building and maintaining a bridge over the said river uniting the Great Western Road in a direct line across it would prevent such impediments and delays and the loss and inconvenience to the public consequent thereon and be a great public good and it is deemed right to grant encouragement to enterprising persons who may be desirous and willing to make and maintain such bridge by granting to them an Act of Incorporation And whereas the eastern bank of the said river at the point where the main public road diverges to the punt is com- prised in a grant by the Crown to Daniel Woodriff and it is necessary in erecting the said bridge that a portion containing seventy-eight feet in length from east to west and eighty feet in breadth from north to south of the said castern bank should be occupied by the eastern abut- ments of the same And whereas the public will be greatly benefited by the facility afforded by a bridge at the said spot and it is thercfore expedient to authorize the erection of such part of the bridge as may be required to he on the said eastern bank upon payment of reasonable compensation to the present proprietor thercof for the land to be occupied thereby Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of New South Wales with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof That John Tindale James Ryan John Perry George Thomas Clarke John Mac Henry Alfred Cox Robert Fitzgerald Archibald Bell Cox Jeremiah Grant Edward Flood Edward King Cox John Lakeman Mortimer Andrew Kerr Henry Hall Henry Wilson Henry Whyte John Wallis Thomas Boulton Perry and all and every other person and corporation who shall hereafter hecome subscribers to the said undertaking and their several and respective successors executors administrators and assigns shall be and are united into a company for making building completing and maintaining a substantial bridge of a width not to be less than twenty-six feet at the spot on the river hank in the borough of Penrith where the road diverges at a right angle to descend to the present ferry to continue the line of the Great Western Road in the county of Cumberland on the east side of the River Nepean straight to the line of the Bathurst or Great Western Road on the opposite or west side of the same in the county of Cook and for that purpose shall he one hody corporate by the name and style of the Penrith Nepean Bridge Company and by