Yongaleatha Marble, Flag, and Flux Company Act of 1891 55 Vic (NSW)

An Act to authorise the " Yongaleatha Marble, , Yoscazsms

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lag, and Flux Company (Limited)," and fsx cosas their assigns, to construct and maintain a = — tramway from their flux quarries and properties, in the parish of Gairdner's Creek, county of Mootwingie, in the Colony

of New South Wales; and to use horse, steam, or other motive power upon the

said tramway; and to carry fuel and timber, and also all marble, flagging, and fluxing material, and also all plant or material necessary for the development

or working of the quarries, properties, and tramways to and from their said flux quarries and properties, in the parish of Gairdner's Creek aforesaid, to a point at Broken Hill, in the Colony aforesaid, connecting with the tramway system of

the Broken Hill mines. [80th December, 1891.]

W HEREAS the " Yongaleatha Marble, Flag, and Flux Company Preamble, (Limited)," hereinafter called the said Company, is a company duly incorporated in the Colony of South Australia, under the "Companies Act, 1864," for the purposes of inter alia working the whole or such part or parts of their properties situate in the counties of Mootwingie and Yancowinna, and which properties are known as the Yongaleatha Quarries, as marble and flag quarries, or for ironstone or other fluxes, or for silver, lead, and other materials, and supplying the district of Broken Hill, the Barrier Mines, and other places with the marble, flagging, flux, or other material obtained therefrom :

Authority to construct tramway.

Levels of line.

Tramway to remain the property of the said Company and their assigns.

Authorized persons to have rights over streets,

50° VIC, 1891.

Yougaleatha Marble, Flag, and Flux Company (Limited).

therefrom: And whereas large quantities of marble, flagging, and fluxing material exist and are being won at the quarries of the said Company, in the parishes of Gairdner's Creek and Yancowinna Creek North: And whereas large quantities of timber suitable for fuel exist upon the said properties of the said Company, situate in the parishes and counties aforesaid: And whereas for the purpose of facilitating the carriage of fuel and timber and the products thereof as aforesaid, and also of the said marble, flagging, and fluxing material to and from the said quarries and properties as aforesaid, the said Company are desirous of constructing a single or double tramway for horse, steam, or other traction, over, across, and along the lands described in the First Schedule hereto, from the said quarries and proper- tics, in the said parish of Gairdner's Creck, to the point at Broken 1LiH, in the said Colony, set out in the said Schedule: And whereas such tranuway cannot be made without Legislative authority: And whercas the construction of the said proposed tramway would be largely for the benefit of the mining public by materially assisting to lessen the expense of developing the silver, lead, and other mining and commercial industries in the Barricr Ranges, and also would be the means of supplying the district of Broken ill with cheap fuel, and it is therefore advisable to authorize, by Legislative enactment, the coustruction, maintenance, and working of the said proposed tramway, subject to the provisions hereinafter contained: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Execllent 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 :—