The New Redhead Estate and Coal Company, Limited, Transfer Act of 1905 (NSW)

Preamble.

Act, 1905. _ The New R edhewl Estate and Coal Company, Limited, Tr unser,

iw An Act to vest in The New Redhead Estate and

Coal Company, Limited, the rights, powers, and privileges vested in the Redhe: ud © 'oal- nuning Company, Limited, under the Red- head Coal-mine Railway Act of 1883, and the Acts amending: the same. [17th November, 1905. ]

\W HEREAS on the seventeenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, a company, called "The Red- head Coal mining Company, Limited," was duly registered under the Companies Act then in force (Thirty-seven Victoria number Nineteen), with a capital of fifteen thousand pounds, divided into fifteen thousand shares of one pound each: And whereas, by an Act intituled " Red- head Coal-mine Railway Act of 1883," the said company was empowered to construct and work a railway from the land of the said company therein mentioned to the Great Northern Railway: And whereas, by the * Redhead Coal-mine Railway Act Extension Act of 1888," the period of time limited for the construction of the said railway and bringing the same into use was extended for a further period of five years: And whereas, on the twenty-seventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and cighty- cieht, another company, called "'The Redhead Coal- mining Company, Limited," was duly registered under the said Companies Act then in foree ('Thirty-seven Victoria number Nineteen), with a capital of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds, divided into one hundred and fifty thousand shares of one pound cach: And whereas, by an Act intituled "An Act to amend the Redhead Coal-mine Railway Act of 1883," the said first-mentioned company was authorised, in accordance with the provisions of the said two recited Acts, to make and construct a railway from the northern shore of the entrance to Lake Macquarie to the southern boundary of its land, situated in the parish of Kahibah, county of Cumberland, in the State of New South Weles, and thenee from that boundary to join the line of railway authorised by the said first-mentioned Act, but such last-mentioned line should be in substitution and in lieu of so much of the line of railway authorised by the said Act as lay between the said boundary of the said company's land to the said point of junction: And by the said Act now in recital the said first-mentioned company was also authorised, in accordance with the provisions of the said two recited Acts, to make and construct a branch railway from a point near the pit of the South Burwood Coal Company,