West Wallsend and Monk-Wearmouth Railway Act Amendment Act 1887 51 Vic (NSW)

West WALLSEND AND

Mowk-WEARMOUTH Act AMENDMENT,

Preamble.

An Act to amend the " West Wallsend and Monk-Wearmouth Act of 1886." [13th July, 1887. |

HEREAS in the fiftieth year of the reign of Her present Majesty an Act was passed entitled the "West Wallsend and Monk- Wearmouth Railway Act of 1886" authorizing the "West Wallsend Coal Company (Limited)" and the " Monk- Wearmouth Colliery Estate Company of Australia (Limited)" to construct a railway from their coal- pit to the Sydney and Waratah Railway and also to acquire land from the Crown bodies corporate and private persons respectively over which the said line would run And whereas it has since been found expe- dient to alter the course of the line and to take other lands believed to be the property of the Crown and of private persons respectively and the said railway line cannot be made without Legislative authority It is therefore desirable to authorize by Legislative enactment the altera- tions proposed to be made Be it therefore enacted by the Qucen'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 :—

1. The first section and the Second Schedule to the " West Wallsend and Monk-Wearmouth Railway Act of 1886" are hereby repealed and section two of this Act shall be read in substitution thereof.

2. It shall be lawful for the said Companies jointly in terms as set out in the First Schedule of the said 'West Wallsend and Monk- Wearmouth Railway Act of 1886" to make and construct a railway from the north side of the Government road running through portion one hundred and twenty unto and through the lands known as those of J. Notley D. Williams W. Johnson J. D. Langley and John Black joining the Sydney and Waratah Railway line about ninety-one miles from Homebush and to effect if necessary a junction between said line and the Sy dney and Waratah Railway in accordance with section ninety- nine of the " Government Railway Act of 1858" such railway to be in the direction described in the Schedule hereto but so that the same shall not occupy at any part thereof (except where required for sidings) a greater space in breadth than sixty-six feet.