Co-operative Colliery Tramway Act 1897 (NSW)

Act, 1897.

Co-operative Colliery Prameoay Yy.

An Act to authorise the maintenance and use of a tramway which has been constructed from the Co-operative Mine, situate on the Wentworth Estate, in the parish of Hexham, county of Northumberland, in the Colony of New South Wales, to the sereens above the Co-operative Railway-line, and which said tramway crosses various strects and ways in the Borough of Plattsburg ; and to enable the executors of William George Laidley, or their assigns, to divert the course of Kenrick-street, between Wentworth-street and FT letcher- street, and giving them compulsory powers to acquire lands forming the site of the said tramway. [6th December, 1897. |

Co-0PERATIVE CoLiinry Tramway.

\ \ TIEREAS the Wonorable William George Laidley, Member of the Preamble.

Legislative Council, was the proprictor under a lease dated the first day of Junc, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, made between Sarah Wentworth and Fitzwilliam Wentworth of the one part, and the said William George Laidley of the other pat, of a mine called the Co-operative Coal-mine, situate in the parish of Iexham in this Colony, and was also pr oprictor of a tramway running from the pit's mouth of the said mine to the sereens above the Co-operative railway line: And whereas Macquarie-strect, in the borough of Plattsburg, crosses the said tramway by a bridge, and the said tramw: ay crosses Wentwortb-strect, in the same borough, by a level crossing, and crosses Kenrick-strect and Fetcher-strect by an embank- ment: And whereas the said tramway was constructed by the said William George Laidley, in the year one thousand cight hundred and seventy-nine, in pursuance of a resolution passed by the council of the borough of Platisburg, on the seventeenth day of September, one thousand cight hundred and seventy-nine, in the words and figures following: '''That this council give full permission to William Laidley, Esquire, to run a tram roadalong and across the following streets, on a level crossing, namely, Macquarie, Wentworth, Kenrick, Fletcher, and all other streets and roads on the proposed route of tramway from the present screens at the old to the new tunnel; and to use the same for