The Australasia Coal Mining Company's Railway Act of 1875 39 Vic (NSW)

An Act to enable the " Australasia Coal Com- 4°mus3,c pany Limited" to construct a Railway from certain Collieries near Neweastle to and to connect the same with the Great. Northern Railway. [9th August, 1875.]

V V7 ILEREAS the " Australasia Coal Company Limited" being a Preamble. Company incorporated under the Act twenty-seventh Victoria number one hundred and ninety of the Colony of Victoria is possessed of or entitled to certain large tracts of land situate on Winding Creek in the parish of Neweastle in the county of Northumberland in the Colony of New South Wales on which there are extensive fields of valuable coal And whereas the said Company in order to facilitate communication between the said lands and the Great Northern Railway is desirous of constructing certain railways that is to say a line of railway to commence at the Great Northern Railway at a point about two and a half (2!) miles distant from the Port of Newcastle and passing in a north-westerly and south-westerly direction through the two thousand acre grant of the Australian Agricultural Company thence south- westerly through thirty-nine acres and two hundred and seventy acres respectively

Authority to con- struct railways.

39° VIC. 1875.

Australasia Coal Company.

respectively supposed to be leased by Messieuxs. Morehead and Young for coal mining purposes thence south-westerly through three hundred and ten aeres supposed to he held under lease for coal miuing purposes by Messieurs James Brown and Alexander Brown crossing the old Hartley Vale Railway (not now in use) at a point about seventy-eight chains from the point of commencement of the said Australasia Coal Mining Company's proposed railway thence south- westerly through a one hundred and fifty-six acres of land held under lease by the Waratah Coal Company and crossing the proposed railway of the said Company at a point about one hundred and seventeen chains from the point of commencement of the aforesaid Australasia Coal Company's proposed line of railway and tl ence continuing south- westerly through one hundred and twenty-nine acres of freehold land the property of the said Waratah Coal Company thence south-westerly through eighty-four acres also leased by the Waratah Coal Company thence south-westerly through six hundred and forty acres the property of Messieurs James Brown and Alexander Brown thence in a south- westerly direction through six hundred and forty acres the property of the Lambton or Scottish Australian Company thence south-westerly through two thousand six hundred and sixty acres the property of the Waratah Coal Company entering the two hundred and three acre block of land of the said Australasia Coal Mining Company at the eastern boundary thereof continuing thence south-westerly through the said two hundred and three acres to the south-west corner of the same thence south-westerly through forty acres known as Morley's land thence south-westerly through forty acres the freehold land of the said Australasia Coal Mining Compary thence continuing south-westerly through eight hundred and fifty-one acres of the said Australasia Coal Mining Company's land to the western boundary thereof And whereas the said coal is likely to rove beneficial to the Colony and the public are concerned in promot:ng 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 greatly increased thereby it is therefore desirable to authorize by Legislative enactment the construction of tae 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 :-—