Morehead and Young’s Railway Act 1862 26 Vic (NSW)

MoRBHEAD AND -Youna's Rartway.

Preamble.

Authority to con- struct Railway and connect same with Great Northern Rail- way.

26° VIC. 1862.

Morehead and Young's Railway.

An Act to enable Robert Archibald Alison More- head and Matthew Young to construct a Rail- way from land near Newcastle leased by them from the Crown to and to connect the same with the Great Northern Railway. [9th De- cember, 1862.] .

\ HEREAS Robert Archibald Alison Morehead and Matthew Young hereinafter designated the promoters have opened a coal mine and established a colliery on a parcel of land situate near Newcastle in the County of Northumberland and in order to facilitate communication between the said coal mine and colliery and the Great Northern Railway are desirous of constructing a Railway from the said coal mine to the said Great Northern Railway but as part of such proposed Railway is intended to be made upon and pass through lands in the said County believed to be as to a part thereof the property of the devisees or representatives of Henry Dangar deceased and as to other part thereof the property of the Crown the same cannot be made without Legislative authority And whereas the said coal mines and colliery are likely to prove beneficial to the Colony and the public are concerned in promoting such an increase in and facilities for the supply of coal for local consumption steam navigation and export as would result from the construction of the said proposed railway and the traffic on the Great Northern Railway would be increased thereby it is therefore desirable to authorize by Legislative enactment the construc- tion of the said Railway subject to the provisions hereinafter contained upon payment of compensation to the several parties through whose lands the same shall pass for such portions of their respective lands as may be required to be occupied thereby 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 :— 1. It shall be lawful for the promoters to make and construct a Railway from the eastern boundary of land leased by them from the Crown and passing in a north-easterly direction through Crown land known as the Newcastle Town Pasturage Reserve thence through other Crown land measured for sale in allotments thence through land sold by the Crown to the late Henry Dangar and now belonging or supposed to belong to his representatives to the Great Northern Rail- way intersecting the same at a point terminating two miles seventy- eight chains or thereabout from the City of Newcastle and at such termination to effect a junction between the said line and the Great Northern Railway in accordance with section ninety-nine of the Government Railway Act of 1858 such Railway to be in the line described in the Schedule but so that the same shall not occupy in any part thereof a greater space in breadth than ninety-nine feet excepting as to the portion thereof within the distance of not more than fifteen chains from the junction with the Great Northern Railway where the width may be one hundred and thirty-two feet including the supports abutments and foundations thereof Provided that the Railway shall be constructed and brought into use within the term of five years from the passing of this Act and that the promoters in con- structing and connecting the same with the Great Northern Railway shall do so ina proper and workmanlike manner and repair all damages caused by so doing.