Richmond Vale Coal-mine Railway Act of 1900 (NSW)

Ricnmoxn Vate COAL-MINE KarLway,

Preamble.

An Act to enable John Brown, William Brown, and Stephen Brown, of Newcastle, in the Colony of New South Wales, to construct a Railway from the Richmond Vale Coal-mines to the Minmi and Hexham Railway, con- structed under the provisions of the Minmi and Hexham Railway Act of 1854. [20th October, 1900. ]

HEREAS John Brown, of Neweastle, in the Colony of New South Wales, William Brown, of Sydney, in the said Colony of New

South Wales, and Stephen Brown, of Newcastle, in the said Colony of New South Wales, are the owners of coal-mines upon the lands situated in the parishes of Stanford, Mulbring, and Stockrington, in the county of Northumberland, near West Maitland, and in order to facilitate com- munication between the said coal-mines and the Great Northern Railway, the said John Brown, William Brown, and Stephen Brown, hereinafter designated the promoters, are desirous of constructing a railway from their said coal-mines to a line hereinafter called the Minmi and Hexham Railway, owned by them, and constructed under the provisions of the Minmi and Hexham Railway Act of 1854; but as part of such proposed railway and sidings are intended to be made upon and pass through land believed to be the property of the Crown, bodies corporate, and private persons respectively, the same cannot be made without Legis- lative authority: And whereas the said coal-mines are likely to prove beneficial to the Colony, and the public are concerned in promoting such an increase in and facilities for the supply of coal for lecal consumption, steam navigation, and export, as would result from the construction of the said proposed railway and sidings, and traffic on the Great

Northern

Act, 1900.

Richmond Vale Coal-mine Railway.

Northern Railway would be increased thereby, it is therefore desirable to authorise by Legislative enactment the construction of the said rail- way and sidings, subject to the provisions hereinafter contained, upon payment of compensation to the several parties through whose land the same shall pass for such portion of their respective Jands as may be required to be taken and occupied thereby: 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 :—