Broken Hill and Suburban Gas Company (Limited) Act of 1888 52 Vic (NSW)

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Broken Hill and Suburban Gas Company (Limited).

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Comraxy(eeme) Suburban Gas Company (Limited)" to construct Gas-works within the Town and Suburbs of Broken Hill. [18th December, 1888. ]

Preamble. \ HEREAS it is expedient that the Town of Broken Hill and its suburbs, in the Colony of New South Wales, should be supplied and lighted with gas. And whereas for the carrying out of the works necessary for such supply of gas, a Joint Stock Company, called the * Broken Hill and Suburban Gas Company (Limited)," has by a memorandum of association and articles of association lately been established at Broken Hill aforesaid, in accordance with and subject to the provisions of the " Companies Act," thirty-seventh Victoria number nineteen. 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 :— Authority to erect 1. The " Broken Hill and Suburban Gas Company (Limited)" gesometers, break UP is hereby fully 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, receivers, cisterns, engines, machines, cuts, drains, sewers, water-courses, pipes, reservoirs, buildings, and other works, and devices of such construction and in such manner as the " Broken Hill and Suburban Gas Company (Limited)" shall think necessary or proper for the purpose of carrying out the operations of the " Broken Hill and Suburban Gas Company (Limited)"' in respect of and incidental tothe making and supplying of gas in conformity with this Act, and the said memorandum and articles of association; and also for all such purposes to open and break up the pavement, stone, or other material of the several streets and bridges, or other public place or thoroughfare, 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, public places or thoroughfares, and to erect posts, pillars, lamps, lampirons, and other apparatus in or upon the same streets and bridges, 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, siphons, plugs or branches from such mains or pipes in, under, across, or along such streets and bridges; and also with such consent as hereinafter mentioned to do the like in, under, across, or along any private roads, ways, lanes, passages, buildings, and places, and Before entering upon from time to time to cut, stop, remove, alter, repair, replace, and vrowner in wateet relay such main, pipes, stop-cocks, siphons, plugs, branches, or other to be obtained. apparatus: Provided always that nothing herein shall authorize or empower the Company, their servant, contractors, agents, or workmen, to enter into or upon any private lands, buildings, or places, for any of the purposes aforesaid, or thereon to carry out any of the opera- tions of the Company without the previous consent in writing of the owners and occupiers thereof, except that the Company may at any reasonable time by its servants, agents, or workmen, enter upon any land or place wherein any pipe has already heen 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