Menindie Irrigation Act 57 Vic (NSW)

Pew South Wales.

ANNO QUADRAGESIMO SEPTATO

VICTORIA REGINA.

An Act to enable and authorise the Menindie Irrigation Settlement (Limited), a Com- pany duly meorporated under the Com- panies Acts of 1874 and i888 of the Colony of New South Wales, to establish a system of Irrigation and Water Supply within the counties of Menindie, Tandora, and Yaneo- winna,in the said Colony; to acquire lands; to establish Irrigation Works; to authorise the sale and supply of water for irrigation and domestic use; and to construct, make, and lay dams, weirs, or flood-gates upon or across the Menindie Creek and Lake, and the other ereeks mentioned herein, and to take water therefrom and from the river Darling, and for all other purposes which may be incidental thereto. [29th March, 1894. |]

V HEREAS it is expedient and would be to the advantage of the inhabitants of the counties of Menindie and 'Tandora, and of the public generally, to establish a system, whereby the waters of lake Menindie and of the Darling River, in the Colony of New South Wales, may be conserved and utilised for irrigation and domestic use, and for watering stock, and for other purposes: And whereas certain Crown lands situated in the parishes of Jlume, Kars, Maiden, and Bellar, in the county of Tandora aforesaid, and more particularly deseribed in the Second Schedule hereto, are suitable for agricultural and horticultural purposes, if provided with a permanent a supply

MENINDIE Tinication,

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Menindie Irrigation.

supply of water: And whereas the Minister for Lands, as notified in the Gazette of the twenty-third day of July, one thousand cight hundred and ninety-two, has reserved from lease for Irrigation purposes part of the lands described in the Second Schedule hereto: 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 :—