Cataract Coal-mine Railway Act of 1867 31 Vic (NSW)

Cataract Coan Minr Raitway.

Preamble.

An Act to enable Alfred Reynolds Huntley and John Le Gay Brereton to construct a Railway from land near Berrima belonging to them

to and to connect the same with the Great Southern Railway. [12th December, 1867.]

W TEREAS Alfred Reynolds Huntley and John Le Gay Brereton.

have opened coal mines and established collieries on a parcel of land situate near Berrima in the county of Camden known as the Cataract Coal Mine and in order to facilitate communication between the said coal mines and collieries and the Great Southern Railway are desirous of constructing a railway from their said coal mines to the said Great Southern 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 the property of the Crown and Messieurs Hillas and the representatives of the late William Hutchinson respectively the same cannot be made without legislative authority And whereas the said coal mines and collieries 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 Southern Railway would be increased thereby it is therefore desirable to authorize by legislative enactment the construction 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 occu- pied thereby Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent

Majesty

1867. 31° VIC. 9

Cataract Coal Mine Railway.

Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Walcs in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows :—