Joadja Creek Railway Act of 1880 43 Vic (NSW)

An Act to enable the Australian Kerosene Oil and Mineral Company (Limited) to construct a Railway to connect the Joadja Creek Tramway with the Great Southern Railway and for other purposes. [18th March, 1880.]

\ HEREAS the Australian Kerosene Oil and Mineral Company

(Limited) being a Joint Stock Company duly registered and incorporated under and in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act (hereinafter called the said Company) is possessed of or entitled to certain large tracts of land situate on and near Joadja Creek in the parish of Joadja in the county of Camden in the Colony of New South Wales containing valuable deposits of coal and kero sene mineral and has constructed and executed extensive works anc machinery for the purpose of working such deposits and extracting kerosene oil therefrom And whereas the said Company has constructe upon land belonging to or occupied by the said Company a tramway in order to facilitate communication between their said works and the Great Southern Railway And whereas the said Company is desirous for the purpose of further facilitating such communication of construct- ing a railway in the line described in the Schedule to this Act from the eastern boundary of ncasured portion number seventy in the parish of Joadja county of Camden to the Great Southern Railway but such proposed railway is intended to be made upon and pass through lands believed to be the property of the Crown and of certain private persons and the same cannot therefore be made without Legislative authority And whereas the working of such coal and kerosene mineral deposits is likely to prove beneficial to the Colony and the public is interested in promoting such an increase in and facilities for the supply of such coal and kerosene mineral and the oil manufactured therefrom for local consumption gas manufacturing and export as would result from the construction of the said proposed railway and the traffic on the Great Southern Railway would be largely increased thereby and it is desirable to authorize by Legislative enactment the construction of the said proposed railway subject to the provisions hereinafter contained and upon payment to the several parties through whose lands the same shall pass the compensation for such portions of their respective lands as may require to be occupied thereby Be it therefore enacted by the