The Pyrmont Bridge Company's Act of 1855 and 1858 22 Vic (NSW)

An Act to authorize additional Works by the Pst Bes

Company. Pyrmont Bridge Company and to amend their Act of Incorporation. [27th October, 1858.]

HEREAS the Pyrmont Bridge Company incorporated by an Preamble. Act of Council passed in the nineteenth year of Her Majesty's19 vie. reign and assented to on the fifteenth day of December in that year Coemont rides have nearly completed a bridge across Darling [larbour from the Market Wharf Sydney to or near to Union-street. Pyrmont and have entered into a contract for the construction of a road from such bridge through Pyrmont and the Ultimo Estate to a point in Blackwattle Bay opposite the Lyndhurst Kstate at the Glebe a good and substantial viaduct with a bridge in the centre across such bay to the Lyndhurst Estate and thence a road through the said estate crossing the Glebe Road along the Hereford Road towards the Parramatta Road at or near to Camperdown And whereas the said works are in progress And whereas the shareholders of the said company have by an indenture bearing date the twenty-second day of April one thousand cight hundred and fifty-seven covenanted and agreed among themselves that the making constructing and maintaining a bridge across Johnson's Bay in Darling Warbour to Glebe Island with such roads ways and approaches to such bridge for the connection thereof with the bridges or bridge and viaduct authorized by the said recited Act and with the Parramatta and Balmain Roads and such other public roads and ways as

Power to construct new bridge over Johnson's Bay.

Power to make deviations.

Conditions precedent

of former Act shall first be fulfilled.

2° VIO. 1858.

Pyrmont Bridge Company.

as should at any time hereafter be deemed desirable should form part. of the objects of the said company as completely and effectually as if the same had been enumerated among the objects in the second clause of the deed of settlement of the said company And whereas it is expedient to authorize the said additional works and to enlarge the powers and authorities of the said corporation for the purposes of the said additional works and to extend the provisions of the said recited Act and to amend the same in certain respects Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows—