Mittagong Coal-mining Company's Railway Act of 1884 48 Vic (NSW)

Mrrracone Coat- MINING COMPANY'S RartLway.

Preamble.

Authority to con- struct railway and connect same with Great Southern Railway.

48° VIC. 1884.

Mittagong Coal-mining Company's Railway. .

An Act to enable a Company called the " Mit- tagong Coal-mining Company (Limited)" to constructa Railway from the Mittagong

Coal-mine to the Great Southern Railway. [3ist October, 1884. |

JALEREAS certain persons now residing in the Colony of New

' South Wales have opened coal-mincs and established collieries on certain lands situate at Mittagong in the parish of Jellore in the Colony of New South Wales and with others have formed themselves into aCompany called the "Mittagong Coal-mining Company (Limited)" and in order to facilitate communication between the said coal-mines and the Great Southern Railway such Company is desirous of con- structing a railway from their said coal-mine to the Great Southern Railway but as part of such proposed railway is intended to be made upon and pass through lands believed to be the property of the Crown 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 pro- moting such an inerease 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 traffie on the Great Southern Railway would be increased thereby it is therefore desirable to authorize by Legislative enactment the construction of the said rail- way subject to the provisions hereinafter contained upon payment of compensation to the several partics 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 :—