Mort Bay Improvement Act 1884 47 Vic (NSW)

Mort Bay IMPROVEMENT.

Preamble.

An Act to enable Mort's Dock and Engineer- ing Company (Limited) to close certain streets through their property at Mort Bay and to establish new streets in lieu thereof. [2nd May, 1884: ]

V HEREAS Mort's Dock and Enginecring Company (Limited) a

duly registered Company carrying on business at the head of Waterview or Mort Bay Balmain near Sydney is seised in fee of certain lands on which the works of the said Company are carried on including the several pieces and parcels of land respectively mentioned and described in Schedules A and B hereto And whereas the several pieccs or parcels of land respectively mentioned and described in Schedules C and D hereto are now in use as roads or streets within the Borough of Balmain leading to public wharves used by the Balmain Steam Ferry and other boats and the said streets or roads intersect

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and divide the said lands of the said Company and interfere to some extent with the free and profitable use and enjoyment of the said lands and increase of the said business And whereas the said wharves are not

conveniently situated for the usc of the passengers by the said steamers -

and other boats in consequence of and the passage of the said steamers and boats is often impeded by the large and constantly increasing number of steam and other vessels resorting to the premises of the said Company for docking repair and other purposes And whereas the closing of the said roads or streets would not ereate any public loss disadvantage or inconvenience if other roads or streets leading to the shores of the said Bay in the immediate neighbourhood of the said existing strects or roads were substituted for the same and wharves and proper approaches constructed and made for the landing of passengers And whereas the Borough Council of Balmain as custodian of the said roads is willing to consent to the said existing road or street described in Schedule C being a portion of the continuation of Mort-strect from the intersection of New John-street to the waters of Mort Bay being closed and the soil thereof vested in the said Company upon the said Company dedicating to the public and undertaking to form as a road the said piece or parcel of land described in Schedule A and to construct a con- venient wharf at the junction of the said land with the waters of the said Bay with suitable approaches and waiting-rooms in connection therewith and the said Council is also willing to consent to the portion of the said existing road or street known as Yeend-strect described in Schedule D being closed and the soil thereof vested in the said Company upon the said Company dedicating to the public and undertaking to form as aroad the said parcel of land described in Schedule B hereto and to construct a convenient wharf with suitable approaches and waiting-rooms And whereas the several parcels of land described in Schedules A and B hereto are in the immediate neighbourhood of the said existing roads or streets so proposed to be closed as aforesaid and would ferm more convenient and advantageous public roads or streets to the shores of the said Bay than the said existing roads or streets and the said Company is willing to substitute dedicate and form as roads or streets the said several pieces of land described in the said Schedules A and B in licu of the said existing streets or roads and to construct and make for the public use suitable wharves and waiting- rooms in licu of those now in use upon being permitted to close up and have the exclusive use and possession of the said pieces or parecls of land deseribed in Schedules C and D hereto And whereas it is greatly for the benefit of the public and especially of those owning land in the neighbourhood of the said existing strects or roads that every facility should be given for the extension of the works of the said Company And whereas an Act of the Legislature is necessary for enabling and authorizing the said Company to close up and have the exclusive use and possession of the said pieces or parcels of land respectively described in Schedules C and D hereto 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 :—