Pennant Hills Tramroad Act 1854 18 Vic (NSW)

Pessaxr thus An Act to enable the Commissioners for the City

TRAMROAD.

— of Sydney to construct a Tramroad from the Quarry at Pennant Hills to the Parramatta River. [2nd December, 1854. ]

Preautble. Wee the Commissioners for the city of Sydney obtain a ly of blue metal or stone from a certain public Quarry

situate at Pennant Hills in the county of Cumberland in the Colony

of New South Wales for the purpose of forming repairing and amend-

ing the public streets and places in the city of Sydney which is likely

to prove beneficial to the inhabitants of the said city and the public

advantage is at present especially concerned in promoting the increase and

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Pennant Hills Tramroad.

and facility in the supply 'of such metal or stone from the said Quarry if the same could be conveyed by a Tramroad or Tramway from such Quarry to the Parramatta River and it is necessary to pass over certain lands already granted by the Crown to several persons and whereas it is deemed expedient to authorize the said Commissioners to form such Tramroad or Tramway over the lands hercinafter described upon payment of reasonable compensation to the owners of such land for such quantity thereof as may 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 as follows—

1. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners for the city of Commissioners Sydney to make and continue a Tramroad or Tramway from thie struct a Tramroad. Parramatta River aforesaid to the southern boundary of the said Quarry at Pennant Wills aforesaid in the line described in the Schedule hereunto annexed marked A so that such road or way shall not occupy in any part thereof a greater space in breadth than twenty-five feet including the supports abutments and foundations thercof but reserving to the Commissioners the power to deviate from the description in the said Schedule to the extent of two chains on cither side of the proposed 'Tramway.