Cookbundoon Slate Quarry Tramway Act of 1881 45 Vic (NSW)

64: 45° VIC. 1881.

Cookbundoon Slate Quarry Tramway.

Coorursvoxe At, Act to enable a Company called "The

Stare Quarry

THANWAY Cookbundoon Slate Company (Limited)" to construct a Tramway from the Cook- bundoon Slate Quarries to the Great Southern Railway. [19th December, 1881.]

Picamble. \ ITEREAS certain persons now residing in the Colony of New South Wales have opened and established certain slate quarrics ona parcel of land situate near Mannaficld in the county of Argyle and with others have formed themselves into a Company called "'The Cookbundoon Slate Company (Limited)" and in order to facilitate communication between the said slate quarries and the Great Southern Railway such Company is desirous of constructing a tramway from their said slate quarry to the Great. Southern Railway but as part of such proposed tramway is intended to be made upon and pass through Jands helicved to be the property of the Crown and private persons respectively the same cannct be made without Legislative authority And whereas the said slate quarries 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 slate for local consumption as would result from the construction of the said proposed tramway and the traffic on the Great Southern Railway would be increased thereby it is therefore desirable to authorize by Legislative enactment the con- struction of the said tramway subject to the provisions hereinafter contained upon payment of compensation to the several parties through whose land the same shall pass for such portion of their respective lands as may be required to be taken and 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 :— Authority to 1. It shall be lawful for the said Company to make and con- construct tramway p : : . and connect same 'Struct a tramway from the southern boundary of thcir said land into with Great Southern and through the land belonging to Augustine M. Betts and into and Railway. S . oD 5 . through Crown land and into and through land said to belong to Moore and into and through Crown lands and into and through land said to belong to William Wallace and into and through Crown lands and into and through John Frost's land and into and through JamesSample's land the said tramway line crossing a certain parish road and also the road from Goulburn to Greenwich Park and terminating at a point on the Great Southern Railway at or near the Mannafield Platform and to effect if necessary a junction between said line and the Great Southern Railway in accordance with section ninety-nine of the "Government Railways Act of 1858" such tramway to be in the line described in the Schedule but so that the same shall not occupy at any part thereof (except near the junction of the Great Southern Railway) a greater space in breadth than sixty-six feet And also that the said Company may take and oceupy three acres of land or any lesser area at the junction of the said tramway with the Great Southern Railway or the said road to Greenwich Park as aforesaid. Site of tramway 2. The ground and soil of so much of the site of the tramway shall be vested in the ~ ' * . : Company without 8 passes ovcr the lands of the said owners of lands respectively and conveyance. over Crown land together with such rights of ingress egress and regress upon the adjacent land as may be necessary for the making and