Adelaide Sewers Act 1879 (SA)

ANNO QUADRAGESIMO SECUNDO ET QUADRAGESIMO

TERTIO

VICTORIB REGIN'B.

No. 133.

An Act to authorise the Coilmissio~ler of Public Worlts

to take possession of portioi~ of the Adelaide

Park Lands, and for other purposes.

[Assented to, 27th A? zdgzist, 18,-9.1

THXREAS it is expedient to ttuthorige the; Commissiont:r of Pre&mbie.

\ being portion of thc Adelaide Park I,ands, described and bounded Public Works to take possession of and use certain lands,

as appears in the Schedules hereto, being portions of the park lands now under the cnrc, and control, and management of the Corporation of the City of Adelaide, for the purpose of constructing thereon railway or tramway sidings, sheds and other works for the drainage of the City of Adclaide and its suburbs, and for crecting thereon all necessary buildings, machinery or works in connection with or for the purposes of the Waterworlrs of the said City and its suburbs; and whereas plans showing the said lands haw been deposited in the office of the Surveyor-General, a t Adelaide-Re it therefore Enacted by thc Governor of the Province

of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative

Council and House of Assembly of the said province, in this present

Parliament assembled, as follows:

Commissioner to take

1. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Municipal an& in Schedules.

Corporation Act, 1861 ," or the Acts amending the same, it shall be

lawful for the Commissioner of Public Wo&s to enter upon and

take posacssion of and use in such manner as may be necessary for the objects intended to be hereby secured, all those pieces or parcels of land, being portion of the Adelaide Park Lands, accbrding as the same arc defineatecl in the said plans, deposited in the office of the

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Addaide Sewers and Waterworks Amendment Act.-1879.

Surveyor-General, at Adelaide, and more particularly described in the first and second Schedule hereto, and upon such land to construct, out of any moneys which have been, or hercafter may be, voted by Parliament for the Adelaide Waterworks or for drainage purposes, such sidings, sheds, buildings and all other necessaly works for carrying out the said respective undertakings.

Landin first 2, The powers granted to the Con~missioner of Public Works, by

to bc taken for

twenty-one p ~ s. the preceding clause, shall, so far as relates to the land in the first

Schedule hereunto described, wholly cease and determine at the expiration of twenty-one years, from the date of the passing of this

P*viao for extension Act:

of time. Provided always, that, if at the expiration of fourteen years, from the passing hereof, the land described in the said first Schedule hereto, shall not be required for the purposcs of this Act, and in any event, on the expiration of the said period of twenty-one years* the care, control, and management thereof shall revert to the Corporation of the City of Adelaide, as d this Act had not been passed.

Land in second 3. The powers granted to the said Commissioner by the first clause

to bo

for fifty years.	of this Act shall, so far as rclates to thc land in the second Schedule hereunto described, wholly cease and determine at the expiration
of fifty years from thc date of the passing of this Act.

Land in first Schc-	4. The land described in the said first Schedule hereto shall
dule to be used ex-

elusive~yfor

only be used by the said Commissioner for the purposes of, belonging

P U ~ ~ O S C S.

to, or connected with the sewerage of the said City of Adelaide and

its suburbs.

Land in second Sche-

dule for Waterworks 5, The land in the said second Schcdule hereto described shall

purposes. only be used by the said Commissioner for the purposes of, belonging to, or connectedwith the Watcrworlrs of the said City and its suburbs.

short title. 6. This Act may bc cited for all purposes as the G Adelaide

Sewers and Waterworks Amendment Act, 1879."

In the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, I hereby assent to

this Bill.

WM. F. DRUMMONU JERVOIS, Governor.

SCHEDULES

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Adelaide Sewers and Waterworks Amendment Act. --l 879.

SCHEDULES REFERRED TO.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

All that portion of the Adelaide Park Lands, bounded as follows:

Commencing at a point on the south-western boundary of the Port Road, seventeen

hundred and seventy-three (1,773) links, in a north-tresterly direction, from where the centre line of the Adelaide and Nairne Railway crosses the said boundary; thence southerly by the eastern boundary of road east of section 2, Hundred of Adelaide, for a distance of twenty chains and sixty-six (2,066) links, thence south- easterly for a distance of two hundred and fifty-seven (257) links, until it meets the north-western corner of the plantation fence, north of the Mile-End Road; thence easterly by the plantation fence for a distance of nine (9) links, or until it cuts the north-western boundary of the Holdfast Bay Railway Reserve; thence north-easterly along the north-western boundary of said reserve, by a line running fifty (50) links, north-west of and parallel to the centre line of the Holdfast Bay Railway, for a distance of one hundred and fifty (150) links, or until it intersects the north-western boundary of the Adelaide and Nairne Railway Reserve; thence in a ncrth-easterly direction, by a curved line, of the radius of twenty-four chains and seventy-five (2,475) links, being the north-western toundary of the said railway reserve, and running at a distance of seventy-five (75) links, from and parallel to the centre line of the Adelaide and Nairne Railway for a distance of seventeen chains and twenty- six (1,726) links, or until it joins the south-western boundary of the Port Road, at a point eighty-eight (88) link^, north-westerly from the ceniae line of the said railway; thence north-westerly along the south-westcrn boundary of the Port Road for a distance of sixteen chains and eighty-five (1,685) links, to the point of com- mencemen t.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

All that portion of the Adelaide Park Lands, bounded as follows :-

Commencing a t a point where Dequetteville-terrace intersects the Botaic Ro ad, a t

the corner now occupied by the Valve House of the Adelaide Waterworks; thence south-westerly, by the south-eastern boundary of the Botanic Road for a distance of six hundred and fifty-two (652) links; thence southerly, through the East Park Lands and ljarallel to the eastern boundary of the Eaet Park Lands, for a distance of four hundred and fifty-two (452) links; thence easterly, at right angles, for a distance of six hundred (600) links to its intersection with the eastern boundary of the East Park Lands; thence northerly for a distance of seven hundred and four (704) links, to the point of commence me^ t.

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Adolaide: Bp authority, E. SPILLER, Acting Government Printer, North-terrace.