Waratah Coal Company Act 1875 38 Vic (NSW)

1875. 38° VIC. 8

Waratah Coal Company.

An Act to authorize the Waratah Coal Com- W2*,co# pany to extend their Line of Railway by = — the construction of branches. [18¢h May,

1875. ]

W Bereas by an Act passed on the eighth day of October one Preamble.

thousand eight hundred and sixty-three in the twenty-seventh year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria intituled "An Act to establish and incorporate a Company to be called the Waratah Coal Company and to authorize the making of « Railway for the purposes of the said Company' a Company was established and incorpo- rated for the purpose of working certain coal mines situated at or near Waratah in the parish of Newcastle in the county of Northum- berland in the Colony of New South Wales and any other mincs of which the said Company might thereafter become possessed and for the disposal of the coal and any other minerals to be obtained there- from and for the carryirg on of such other business and doing such other matters and things in connection therewith as the said Company might deem expedient and the said Company was thereby authorized to make construct and maintain a railway with all proper works and conveniences connected therewith upon across and over the lands and in the direction delineated and described in Schedule E to the said Act And whereas in pursuance of the powers for that purpose con- tained in the said Act the said Company did within the term of five years from the passing of the said Act make and construct the railway with all proper works and conveniences thereby authorized to be made And whereas the said Company has since the passing of the said Act been continuously and is still extensively engaged in working the coal mines of the said Company and in the disposal of the coal obtained therefrom and it has been found necessary for the more efficiently carrying out the works of the Company and for the carriage and shipping of the coal obtained from the said mines that two branch railways being extensions of the said line of railway already constructed under the authority of the said Act should be made com- mencing respectively and determining at the points hereinafter more fully deseribed and it is expedient that power should be given to the said Company for the making and constructing of such branch rail- ways with all proper works and conveniences connected therewith subject to the provisions hercinafter contained 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 :—