Silkstone Coal-mine Railway Act of 1889 53 Vic (NSW)

1889. 53° VIC. 25

Silkstone Coal-mine Railway.

An Act to enable Richard Tilden Smith, of stor com.

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Sydney, in the Colony of New South — Wales, and John Thomas Mancee, of Parr amatta, in the said Colony, to eon- struct a Railway from the Silkstone Coal- mine to the Great Northern Railway. [380th September, 1889. |

\ HEREAS Richard Tilden Smith, of Sydney, in the Colony of Preamble.

New South Wales, and John Thomas Manec, of Parramatta, in the said Colony, have opened coal-mincs upon lands situated near Maitland, in the parish of Stanford, in the county of Northumberland, and in order to facilitate communication between the said coal-mincs and the Great Northern Railway, the said Richard Tilden Smith and John Thomas Mancee, hereinafter designated the promoters, are desirous of constructing a railway from their said coal-mines to the Great Northern Railway, but as part of such proposed railway is intended to be made upon and pass through land believed to be the property of the Crown, bodies corporate, and private persons respectively, the same cannot be made without Legislative authority. And whereas the said coal-mines are likely to prove beneficial to the Colony, and the public are concerned in promoting such an increase in and facilities for the supply of coal for local consumption, steam navigation, and export, as would result from the construction of the said pro- posed railway, and traffic on the Great Northern Railway would be increased thereby. It is therefore desirable to authorize by Legislative enactment the construetion of the said railway, subject to the pro- visions hereinafter contained, upon payment of compensation to the several parties through whose land the same shall pass for such portion of their respective lands as may be required to be taken and occupied thereby. 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 authority of the same, as follows :—