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

Vicrortan Coa-

MINING CoMPANY'S

(No. 2).

Preamble.

An Act to authorize the construction and maintenance of a line of railway from land at Mount Kembla to the sea-coast at Port Kembla near Red Point near Wollongong. [29th August, 1884. |

Wren AS Thomas Saywell merchant of Sydney New South

Wales his heirs and assigns trading as the Victorian Coal- mining Company hereinafter designated the Company is about to open coal-mines on land situate nearMount Kembla in the County of Camden. and is desirous of constructing « railway from the said coal-mines to the sea-coast at Red Point through certain private lands referred to in the Schedule to this Act but such railway cannot be made without Legislative authority And whereas the said coal-mincs 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 as would result from the construction of the said proposed railway it is therefore desirable to authorize by Legislative enactment the construction of the said railway 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

1884. 48" VIC.

Victorian Coal- "mining 1 Company' s (No. 2).

Most Uxeellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows

1. It shall be lawful for the Company to make and construct a railway from lands belonging to the Company through lands belonging to Messrs. Matthew Reen M* Loy Farrvaher Blackman O'Brien (i. Waples Nicolle Cummins Jenkins Darcy Wentworth and the Mount Kembla Coal and Oil Company to the waters of the Pacific Occan more particularly described in the First Schedule hereto and to take and use so much of the said lands as the said Company may require for the purpose of such railway in the line described in the First Schedule hereto not execeding in any part thereof a greater space in breadth than sixty-six feet including the supports abutments and foundations of the said railway but as to the lands specified in the agreement in the Second Schedule hereto (parcel of the lands in the First Schedule only upon the terms and conditions therein contained Provided that the said railway shall he constructed and brought into use within the term of three years from the passing of this Act and that in default thereof or if after its completion the said railway shall cease to be used for three years continuously all the said lands and all the said Company's interest and estate therein shall revert without any con- veyance to the original owners thereof their heirs and assigns.