Mort's Dock and Engineering Company (Limited) Enabling Act of 1898 (NSW)

Mort's Dock axp ENGINEERING Company (LiMiTED) ENABLING.

Preamble.

An Act to enable Mort's Dock and Engineering Company (Limited) to close portions of cer- tain streets at Mort Bay in the Borough of Bahnain, being a portion of College-street and the north-east end of Mort-street, and to establish a new street in lieu thereof;

and for other purposes connected therewith. [23rd December, 1898. ]

\ HEREAS Mort's Dock and Engineering Company (Limited), a duly registered Company carrying on business at the head of Waterview or Mort Bay, Balmain, near Sydney, is seised in fee of certain land on which the works of the said company are carried on, and the piece or parcel of land mentioned and described in Schedule A hereto: And whereas the several pieces or parcels of land respectively mentioned and described in Schedule B hereto, being portions of certain roads or streets within the borough of Balmain, known respec- tively as College-street and Mort-strect, are now in use as roads or streets leading to a public wharf situate at the foot of Mort-street aforesaid, where the same abuts on the waters of the said bay: And whereas the whole of the land fronting or abutting upon said portions of roads or streets is owned by the said company subject only as

regards part of the said land to a certain security created by indenture dated the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, and made between the said company of the one part, and

Act, 1898. Mort's Dock and Engineering 'Company (Limited) Enabling.

and Kelso King and Edward William Knox of the other part: And whereas the said company is desirous, with the assent of the parties interested under the said indenture, to utilise certain portions of their said land for the purpose of extending the works and the dock accom- modation of the said company, but are prevented from doing so by reason of the position of the said portions of streets or roads in rela- tion to the existing works of the said company and the portions of land required to be so used: And whereas it would be of great advantage and convenience to the said company for the purpose of extending their works and affording further and improved dock accom- modation of great public utility that the said company should be enabled to close up and have the exclusive use and possession of the said portions of the said roads or streets: And whereas the borough council of Balmain, as custodians of the said roads or streets, and of the said public wharf, is willing to consent to the said portions of College- street and Mort-street, described in Schedule B hereto, being closed, and the soil thereof vested in the said company, upon the said company dedicating to the public, and undertaking to form as a road or street the piece or parcel of land of the company described in Schedule A hereto for the purpose of connecting the portion of Mort-street. still remaining open for public traflic with Thames-street, and also to erect at the foot of Thames-street a wharf and waiting-room for the con- venience of the public and to the satisfaction of the said borough council in lieu of the said wharf now existing at the foot of Mort-street as aforesaid: And whereas the said company is ready and willing to substitute, dedicate, and form as a road or street the piece or parcel of land described in Schedule A hereto in leu of the said portions of College-street and Mort-street, and to erect the said wharf and waiting- room at the foot of Thames-street as aforesaid upon being permitted to close up and have the exclusive use and possession of the said pieces or parcels of land described in Schedule B hereto: And whereas the closing of the said portions of College-street and Mort-street as aforesaid would not create any public loss, disadvantage, or inconvenience if the said piece or parcel of land described in Schedule A hereto were substituted, dedicated, and formed in lieu thereof as aforesaid, and the said wharf and waiting-room were erected at the foot of Thames-street as aforesaid: And whereas it is greatly for the benefit of the public that every facility should be given for the extension and improvement of the works and of the dock accommodation of the said company: And whereas an Act of the Legislature is necessary for enabling and authorising the said company to close up the said portions of College-street and Mort- street described in Schedule B hereto, and to have the soil and the exclusive use and possession of the said portions of the said streets vested in the said Company: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the