Windsor Gas-light Company (Limited) Act of 1884 48 Vic (NSW)

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Company (Limited) to construct: Gas. sr). works within the Town of Windsor. [20th June, 1884.]

y TITEREAS it is expedient that the town of Windsor and its Preamble.

suburbs in the Colony of New South Wales shall be supplied and lighted with gas And whercas for the carrying out of the works necessary for such supply of gas a Joint Stock Company called the " Windsor Gas-light Company (Limited)? has by a memorandum of association lately been established at Windsor aforesaid in accordance with and subject to the provisions of the Companics Act thirty-seven Victoria number nineteen And whereas the Municipal Council of the Boroughof Windsor and the Commissioners of the Windsor Road Trust,

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have at the request of the Windsor Gas-light Company ( Limited) and i in consideration of the benefits to arise from the establishmentand carrying out of such works consented to the vesting in the said Company of all necessary powers and authorities so far as the rights and interests of the said Municipal Council are concerned Be it therefore enacted by the Quecn'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 :— Authority to creet 1. The "Windsor Gas-light Company (Limited)"' is hereby fully gaometors break-up authorized and empowered by its servants contractors agents workmen and others from time to time to make erect sink lay place fit maintain and repair such retorts gasometers or gas-holders meters reccivers cisterns engines machines cuts drains sewers watercourses pipes reser- voirs buildings and other works and devices of such construction and in such manner as the Windsor Gas-light Company (Limited) shall think necessary or proper for the purposes of carrying out the opera- tions of the Windsor Gas- light Company (Limited) i in respect of and incidental to the making and supplying of gas in conformity with this Act and the said memorandum of association and also for all such purposes to open and break up the soil and pavement of the several footpaths highways streets bridges roads ways lanes passages or other public places or thoroughfares or of any road way thoroughfare or place dedicated to or used by the public as such or any part or parts thereof within the limits of the town and suburbs aforesaid and to open and break up any sewers drains or tunnels within or under such streets and bridges and to erect posts pillars lamps lamp-irons and other apparatus in or upon the same streets bridges highways roads ways lancs passages and other thoroughfares and places or against any wall or walls erected on or adjoining to any of them and to dig and sink trenches and drains and to lay mains and pipes and put 'stop- -cocks syphons plugs or branches from such mains or pipes in under across or along such streets bridges roads ways lanes passages and other thoroughfares and places and also with such consent as hercinafter mentioned to do the like in under across or along any private roads ways lanes passages buildings and places and from time to time to cut stop remove alter repair replace and relay such main pipes stop-cocks syphons plugs branches or other apparatus Provided always that nothing in this scetion con- tained shall be deemed to authorize the said Company their servants contractors agents or workmen to enter into or upon any private lands building or places for any of the purposes aforesaid or thereon to carry out any of the operations of the said Company without the previous consent in writing of the occupicrs thereof except that the said Company may at any reasonable time by its servants agents or workmen 'enter upon any land or place whereon any pipe hath already been lawfully laid down or placed in pursuance of this Act and repair or alter the existing pipe or lay or place any new pipe in the stead thereof and provided also that the said Company shall unless in case of accident give twenty-four hours' notice in writing to the Council Clerk of the said Municipality prior to the opening or breaking up as aforesaid of any street road pavement sewer drain or tunnel as aforesaid Provided further that if in carrying out any of the operations of the said Com- pany it shall be deemed necessary by the said Company to enter upon under across or along any public or private railway or tramway it shall be sufficient for the said Company to obtain the consent of the Minister for Works for the time being of the Colony of New South Wales anything hereinbefore contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always that in case the Municipal Council of the said Borough of Windsor shall at the expiration of ten years from the date