Great Northern Coal Company’s Railway Act of 1908 (NSW)

Act, 1908. Great Northern Coal Company's Railway,

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An Act to enable the Great Northern Coal nest sonrnens

Company (Limited), a joint stock company duly incorporated under the Companies Acts, 1862 to 1900, in the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to construct a railway from the WKalingo Estate, in the parish of Aellalong, and county of Northumberland, to a line constructed by the Aberdare Col- lierics of New South Wales (Limited), under the provisions of the Aberdare Collieries Railway Act of 1901. [25th November, 1908. ]

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\ HEREAS the Great Northern Coal Company (Limited), a joint Preamble.

stock company duly incorporated under the Companies Acts, 1862 to 1900, in the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, herein- after called the company, is opening coal-mines upon the Kalingo estate, situated in the parish of Aellalong, in the county of Northumberland, near Ellalong, and in order to facilitate communication between the said coal-mines and the Great Northern Tailway the said company is desirous of constructing a railway from its said coal-mines to a line hereinafter called the Aberdare Collieries Railway, constructed by the Aberdare Collicries of New South Wales (Limited), under the provisions of the Aberdare Collieries Railway Act of 1901: 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 cor- porate, 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 increase in and facilities for the supply 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 railway would be increased thereby: It is therefore desirable to authorise by legislative enactment the construction of the said railway, subject to the provisions hereinafter contained, upon payment of compensaticn 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