NSW Legislation
Oakey Park Coat-
MINING CoMPANyY's Ramway,
Preamble.
Authority to con- struct railway and to connect the same with the Great Western Railway.
from the construction of the railway; it is therefore desirable to
An Act to enable the Oakey Park Coal-mining Company, Limited, to construct a line of Railway from land near Lithgow belong- ing to the said Company, and to connect
the same with the Great Western Railw ay. [21st September, 1889. ]
\ HEREAS the Oakey Park Coal-mining Company, Limited, a / joint stock company, duly registered under and in accordance with the provisions of the " Companies Act," and hercinafter designated the Company, have opened coal-mines on land situated near Lithgow, in the parish of Lett, county of Cook, and are desirous of constructing a railway from the said coal-mines to the Great Western Railway, near to Lithgow aforesaid, but as part of such railway is intended to be made upon and pass through lands in the said county not belonging to the Company, but believed to be the property of George Pile, John Yelverton Mills, John Bennett, and the Bank of New Zealand, and others, or some of them respectively, the same cannot be made without Legislative authority. And whereas the said coal-mines are likely to prove beneficial to this Colony, and the public are concerned in promoting such an inerease in the facilities for the supply of coal for local consumption, steam navigation, and export, as would result
authorize by Legislative enactment the construction of the railway, subject to the provisions hereinafter contained, upon payinent of com- pensation to the several parties through whose lands the same shall pass, for such portions of their respective lands as may be required to be taken and oceupied 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 :—
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