Hunter River Railway Company Act 1853 17 Vic (NSW)

Tfunrer River

Ratiway Company.

Preamble.

Proprietors incorpo-

rated by the namefof

An Act to establish and incorporate a Company to be called "' The Hunter River Railway Company." [10th October, 1853. ]

TWEREAS the making and maintaining of a railway from the city of Newcastle to the towns of East Maitland and West Maitland in the county of Northumberland in the Colony of New South Wales would be of great public advantage by opening additional certain and expeditious means of communication between the said places and also by facilitating communication between more distant towns and places "And whereas the several persons hereinafter named are willing and desirous to make and maintain such railway and it is deemed advisable to give encouragement to them by granting to them an Act of Incorporation Be it therefore enacted by Ilis Excellency the Governor of New South Wales by and with the advice and consent of the 1 aiective Council thereof as follows— . The following persons that is to say George Allen George

"Phe Hunter River Wigram Allen Arthur 4Beckett William Bradley George Burgess

Railway Company."

Adam Bogue Edward Wilbraham Bell Alexander Campbell Brown Edward Baker Boulton Hutchinson Hothersall Browne Alexander Campbell John Henry Challis Thomas Chalder William Croasdill John Croft Charles Cowper Henry Grattan Douglass John Bayley Darvall John Fairfax John Gilchrist Samuel Dean Gordon Alexander Charles Hood Robert Allen Hunt Thomas Hopkins Thomas Holt the younger Joshua Frey Josephson George King Simon Kemp Charles Kemp William James Lennon Michael Metcalf Andrew Hardie M'Culloch Thomas Sutcliffe Mort James Millsom the younger James Mitchell Charles Nathan George Polhill Samuel Peek John Reeve William Russell Robert Scott Ross Ralph Meyer Robey William Russell Thomas Ware Smart Edward Salamon Edward Kennedy Sylvester Robert Perey Simpson Robert Tgwns Edwin Tooth Charles