Cataract and Nepean Bridges Act 1852 16 Vic (NSW)

1852. 16° VIC. 233

Cataract and Nepean Bridges.

ANNO DECIMO SEXTO

VICTORIA REGINA.

An Act to enable the Shareholders of a Company cersnser asv, culled the Cataract and Nepean Bridges Com- ~~ -— pany to sue and be sued in the name of their Chairman for the time being and to limit the liability of the Shareholders in such Company to the amount of the Shares they respectively hold therein and to extend the period of time allowed for the completion of the said Bridges to the term of three years and for other

purposes therein mentioned. [23rd November, 1852. ]

HEREAS by an Act of the Governor of New South Wales with Preamble.

the advice of the Legislative Council thereof passed in the fifteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria intituled " An Act to enable William Hilton Movell of Goulburn in the Counti 15 vie. "of Argyle Esquire to erect and maintain a Bridge over the Cataract Cataract and Nepean " River at a spot known as' Broughton's Pass' and a Bridge over the 8°" " Nepean at a spot known as' The Pheasant's Nest' on the line of Road " leading from Sydney to Goulburn by way of Campbelltown and Appin " to Lupton's Inn and to take Toll thereat for a term of years and for ** other purposes therein mentioned" power and authority was given to the said William ILilton Uovell his executors administrators and assigns to crect bridges over the said rivers and to take toll thereat for a period of thirty years next after the completion of such bridges and the time allowed for the completion of such bridges was thereby limited to the period of three years from the passing of the said Act And whercas a considerable capital is necessary to mect the expenses that must be incurred in the erection of such bridges And whereas a company has been formed for the purpose of raising such capital in shares and it is expedient that such company should be enabled to sue and be sued in the name of their Chairman for the time being and that the liability of the sharcholders in such company should be limited to the amount of the shares respectively held by them therein and that the period of time allowed for the completion of the said bridges should be further extended.