Mount Kembla Coal and Oil Company's Railway Act of 1881 44 Vic (NSW)

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An Act to enable the Mount Kembla Coal Movs: ken

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and Oil Company (Limited) to construct gerex:

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two lines of Railway from Jand near = — Mount Kembla belonging to the said Company and to connect the same with

the sea-coast at Red Point and Wollon- gong respectively. [23rd March, 1881.]

W TEREAS the Mount Kembla Coal and Oil Company (Limited) Preamble. a joint stock company duly registered under an Act of the Imperial Parliament made and passed in the twenty-fifth and twenty- sixth years of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria chapter eighty-nine and the Acts amending the same and hercinafter designated the Company have opencd coal-mines on land situated near Mount Kembla in the county of Camden and are desirous of constructing railways from the said coal-mines to the sea-coast at Red Point and at Wollon- gong respectively but as part of such proposed railways are intended to be made upon and pass through lands in the said county not belonging to the said Company but believed to be the property of the representatives of the late William Stafford John Bright Thomas Wilton Lady William Warren Jenkins D'Arcy Wentworth Henry Giles Irvine Thomas John Vuller Mrs. Hubert Waldron Charles Vaughan Waldron Thomas John Fuller the representative of the late 7 Robert

Authority to con- struct railways and to connect the same with the sea-coast.

Power to continue railways to dock or harbour works.

Power to construct wharves.

Lands vested in the Company without conveyance,

44° VIC. 1881.

Mount Kembla Coal and Oil Company's Railway.

Robert Owen William Simpson and the Crown being temporary reserves under the control of the Municipal Council of Wollongong and the Trustees of the Wollongong Common John Massey Henry Gilbert Smith William Roemer the Trustees of the Roman Catholic Cemetery and the Roman Catholic Convent and others or some of them respectively the same cannot be made without Legislative authority And whereas the said coal-mines are likely to prove beneficial to the Colony and the public are concerned in promoting such an increase in the facilities for the supply of coal for local consumption steam navigation and export 1s would result from the construction of the said proposed railways it is therefore desirable to authorize by Legisla- tive enactment the coistruction of the said railways 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 used or occupied thereby Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New Souih Wales in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows :—