Commonwealth Portland Cement Company Railway Act of 1902 (NSW)

Common WEALTH PortLanp CEMENT Company Ratway.

Preamble,

Authority to connect railway with Mudgee railway and to cross roads,

Act, 1902.

Commonwealth Portland Cement Company Railway.

An Act to enable a company called the Common- wealth Portland Cement Company, Limited, to cross (in connection with the construction by them of a railway) with the said railway the public road from Portland village to Cullen Bullen, and the road from Portland village to Portland siding, and reserve No. 150, parish of Cullen Bullen, county of Rox- burgh. [12th December, 1902. ]

A7HEREAS the Commonwealth Portland Cement Company, Limited, a company duly registered under the Companies Act of England, 1862-18938, and hereinafter designated the company, are carrying on the business of manufacturers and merchants of and dealers in cement and bricks and of merchants of and dealers in limestone, lime, shale, sand, and other kind of carth, minerals, metals, substances, articles, and things used in or in connection with the manufacture of cement, or with building on lands situate at Portland, and in order to facilitate communication between their works and quarries and the Mudgee railway it is desirous of constructing a railway from the said Mudgee railway to their said works, such railway, hereinafter called the said railway, to cross certain public roads referred to in the description of the route of the said railway as set out in the Schedule to this Act: And whereas the said mines are likely to prove beneficial to the State, and the public are concerned in promoting such an increase in and facilities for the supply of cement for local usage and export as would result from the construction of the railway, and the traffic on the Mudgee line would be increased thereby: And it is desirable to authorise the said company to use so much of the roads mentioned in the Schedule hereto as may be required for the purpose of the said railway, subject to the provisions herein- after contained: 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 :— 1. It shall be lawful for the company in the construction of the said railway along the route described in the said Schedule to effect a