Redhead Coal-mine Railway Act of 1883 46 Vic (NSW)

REDHEAD CoaL- MINE RAILWAY.

Preamble.

Authority to con- struct railway and connect same with Great Northern Railway,

Site of railway shall be vested in the Company without conveyance,

46° VIC, 1883.

Redhead Coal-mine Railway.

An Act to enable a Company called the " Red- head Coal-mining Company (Limited)" to construct a Railw: ay from the Redhead

Coal-mine to the Great Northern Railway. [14th April, 1883. |

VV BEREAS certain persons now residing in the Colony of New

South Wales have opened coal-mines and established collicries on a parcel of land situate near Newcastle in the parish of Kahiba county of Cumberland and with others have formed themselves into a Company called the " Redhead Coal-mining Company Limited" and in order to facilitate communication between the said coal-mines and the Great Northern Railway such Company is desirous of constructing a railway from their said coal-mine to the Great Northern Railway but as part of such proposed railway is intended to be made upon and pass through land believed to be the property of the Crown bodies corporate and private persons 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 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 increased thereby It is therefore desir- able to authorize by Legislative enactment the construction of the said railway subject to the provisions hereinafter contained upon pay- ment 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 :—