Aberdare Collieries Railway Act of 1901 (NSW)

An Act to cnable the Aberdare Collieries of New — Avrxvane

CoLLiERTES

South Wales (Limited), ajoint stock company — ksnvax. duly incorporated under the Companies Act of 1899, to construct a railway from the Aberdare Collicries to a line constructed by the Kast Greta Coal-mining Company (Limited), under the provisions of the Stanford Coal-mine Railway Act of 1900. [27th December, 1901.]

W HEREAS the Aberdare Collieries of New South Wales (Limited), Preamble. a joint stock company duly incorporated under the Companies Act of 1899, hereinafter called the Company, are opening coal-mines upon lands situated in the parish of Cessnock, in the county of Northumberland, near Cessnock, and in order to facilitate communica- tion between the said coal-mines and the Great Northern Railway the said company is desirous of constructing a railway from its said collieries to a line hereinafter called the Stanford Coal-mine Railway, constructed py the East Greta Conl-mining Company (Limited) under the provisions of the Stanford Coal-mine Railway Act of 1900; but as part of such proposed railway is 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 legislative authority: And whereas the said coal-mines are likely to prove beneficial to the State, and the public are concerned in promoting such an inerease in and facilities for the su pply of coal for local consumption, steam navigation, and export, as would result from the construction of the said proposed railway, and traffic on the Great Northern

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Northern Railway would be increased thereby. It is therefore desirable to authorise by legislative enactment the construction of the said railway, subj ect 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 lands as may be required to be taken and occupied thereby: Be it therefore enacted by the King'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 :—