The Bowenfels Coal Mining and Copper Smelting Company’s Railway Act 36 Vic (NSW)

BowENFELS

CoaL Mrnine and

Correr SMELTING Company's Rariway.

Preamble.

An Act to enable certain persons carrying on business at Bowenfels and Sydney under the name and style of the " Bowenfels Coal Mining and Copper Smelting Company " to construct a Railway or Tramway from land in Lithgow Valley belonging to them to and to connect the same with the Great Western Railway. [2nd April, 1873.]

7 HEREAS certain persons trading in Sydney and Bowenfels under the name and style of the " Bowenfels Coal Mining and

Copper Smelting Company" have opened coal mines and established collieries on a parcel of land situate at Lithgow Valley in the county of Cook in the Colony of New South Wales and known as the Hermitage Colliery and are about to erect buildings and works for the purpose of smelting copper ores and in order to facilitate communica- tion between the said coal mines collicries and works and the Great Western Railway the said Company are desirous of constructing a railway {rom their said coal mines to the said Great Western Railway but as part of such proposed railway is intended to be made 'upon and pass through lands in the said county the property of Andrew Brown of Cooerwull Esquire across Farmer's Creck and over and along reserved roads over which said lands and read the said railway cannot be made and continued without Legislative authority And whereas the said coal mines and smelting works of the said Company are likely to prove beneficial to the Colony and the public advantage is at present especially concerned in promoting such an increase in and facilities

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Bowenfels Coal Mining and Copper Smelting Company's Railway.

for the supply of coal for local consumption and exportation as would result from the completion of the said railway it is therefore expedient to authorize by Legislative enactment such constructions and continu- ations of the said railway subject to the provisions hereinafter con- tained upon payment of reasonable compensation to the said Andrew Brown through whose lands the same shall pass for such portion of the said land as may be required to be occupied thereby. Be it therefore enacted by the Quecn's Most Ixecllent Majesty by and with the advice of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows :—