Street Alignment Act 1844 (WA)

Western Australia Street Alignment Act 1844 Western Australia Street Alignment Act 1844 Contents 1. Surveys of towns, Governor's powers as to; original surveys, rectifying deviations from 1 3. Authorised land officer may enter allotments etc. 2 5. Structures in the way of boundary posts may be marked instead 2 6. Boundary posts, ownership and effect of 3 7. Survey to be given to Governor etc. 3 8. Streets may be aligned in accordance with survey 3 9. Nothing to be fastened to boundary posts 4 11. Boundary posts etc. to be inspected annually etc. 4 12. Plans of new allotments etc. to be given to Governor etc. 5 13. Limitation of actions etc. 5 14. Limitation of prosecutions 6 15. Offences to be dealt with summarily 6 17. Term used: authorised land officer 7 18. Short title 7 Notes Compilation table 8 Defined terms Western Australia Street Alignment Act 1844 An Act to provide for the alignment of streets in the several towns in the Colony of Western Australia. Preamble Whereas by the first section of an Act of Council passed in the fourth and fifth year of the reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to provide for the improvement of Towns in the Colony of Western Australia," 2 the right of property in all streets, paths, canals, towing‑paths, ferries, bridges and other thoroughfares within the limits of any townsite is vested in the respective trustees of each such town; and whereas in several instances a difficulty has been experienced in recognising the exact lines of the streets, because many of the surveyors' marks by which such lines were originally defined have been either removed, destroyed or obliterated in the course of time; and whereas it is highly expedient to ascertain the precise limits of the streets so vested in each Town Trust respectively and to define the same by conspicuous and permanent marks, so as to enable the said Trustees to preserve the regularity of the streets and to prevent any encroachment thereon: