Windsor Gas-light Company (Limited) Act Amendment Act of 1889 53 Vic (NSW)

1889. 53° VIC.

Windsor Gas-light Company (Limited) Act Amendment.

An Act to enabie the " Windsor Gas-lght Company (Limited)" to extend the opera- tions of the Company to the town of Richmond and the suburbs thereof, and to the roads connecting the said town and suburbs of Richmond with the town and suburbs of Windsor, and to inerease the

capital of the Company by the issue of

preferential shares, and to borrow money on the security of the plant and uncalled capital of the Company. [2nd October, 1889.]

TILEREAS it is expedient that the town of Richmond, in the Colony of New South Wales, and the suburbs thereof, and the road or roads connecting the said town and suburbs with the town and suburbs of Windsor, in the said Colony, should be supplied and lighted with gas. And whereas by an Act of the Legislature of New South Wales, passed in the forty- eighth year of Her present Majesty's reign, and intituled the Windsor Gas- light Company (Limited) Act of 1884, % the said Company was duly empowered to construct gas-works w ithin the said town and suburbs of Windsor. And whereas with a view to extending the operations of the said Company the directors of the said Company have been duly authorized, by a meeting of the sharcholders of the said Company duly convened and held on the twenty-sccond day of May, one thousand cight hundred and eighty-eight, to apply for an Act of the Legislature of New South Wales to authorize the said Company to extend the operations and inerease the capital of the said Company, and to borrow money on the security of the plant and uncalled capital of the said Company in manner hereinafter appearing. And whereas the Municipal Council of the said town of Richmond have at the request of the said Company, in consideration of the benefits to arise from the establishment and carrying out of the works necessary for such supply of gas, consented to the vesting i in the saic Company of all necessary powers and authorities so far as the rights and interests of the said Municipal Council are conecrned. And whereas it is expedient that for the purpose of establishing and carry- ing out such works the said Company should have power to increase the capital of the Company by the issue of preferential shares and to borrow moucy on the security of the plant and works and uncallec capital of the said Company. 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 :— 1. It shall be lawful for the «Windsor Gas- light Company (Limited)," from time to time to make and erect in places within the said town of Richmond and the suburbs thereof additional buildings, gasometers, machinery, and other works, to erect and maintain posts, pillars, lamps, and other apparatus in all or any strects and other public places, to dig and sink trenches for the purpose of laying, fixing, altering, and reparing, and to lay, fix, alter, and repair mains and pipes, stop-cocks, syphons, plugs and branch-pipes in, through, under