Marrickville to the Burwood Road Railway Act of 1890 (NSW)

No. XXVII.

An Act to sanction the construction of a lino of Railway from Marrickville to the Bur- wood Road. [20th December, 1890.]

from Marrickvillc to the Burwood Road, a distance of four miles forty WHEREAS, pursuant to the "Public Works Act of 1888," a certain proposed Public Work, namely, " a line of Railway

chains," was, on the first day of August, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, duly submitted and explained by the Secretary for Public Works in the Legislative Assembly, and such work was thereupon referred, on the motion of the said Minister, to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, which Committee reported thereon to the said Assembly pursuant to the said Act. And whereas on the twelfth day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety, the said Assembly by resolution declared " that it is expedient that a line of Railway from Marrickvillc to the Burwood Road, as referred by the Legislative Assembly to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, be carried out," and the said resolution was notified in the Gazette on the twentieth day of June in the said year: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen'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. This Act may be cited as the " Marrickville to the Burwood Road Railway Act of 1890," and shall be read with the " Public Works Act of 1888."

2. The Public Work more particularly described in the Schedule to this Act shall be carried out by the Secretary for Public Works or the Member of the Executive Council for the time being charged with the duties of the said Minister. And such Minister or Member shall for the purposes of this Act and the " Public Works Act of 1888" be deemed and taken to be the " Constructing Authority" authorized to enter into contracts, and to exercise all powers, do all acts and things, and be responsible in respect of all obligations and liabilities which can be done or incurred by a " Constructing Authority" under or pursuant to this Act or the said Public Works Act, so far as may be necessary for the carrying out of the work hereby sanctioned. The Plan of such Work hereinafter referred to is the Plan marked " Marrickville to the Burwood Road Railway," signed by the Secretary for Public Works and countersigned by the Acting Enginecr-in-Chief for Railways, and deposited in the office of said Secretary. Provided that the public work aforesaid shall not be commenced to be constructed before and until the persons and company hereinafter named who will be benefited and advantaged by the said work running through the lands of which they are the owners or in which they are otherwise interested shall have executed such conveyances, assignments, or other necessary assurances in the law to be made to the " Constructing Authority" or other the person or persons, authority or authorities, as it may be necessary to vest such lands in as are necessary for the purposes of such work, that is to say:—Frederick Clissold, Louis Phillips, Moritz Gotthelf, M. Hamburger, Charles Moyes, John Mooney, S. J. Campbell,

Campbell, The Anglo-Australian Investment Finance and Land Com- pany (Limited), George E. Warburton, E. A. Macpherson, Chas. E. D. Priddle, Chas. E. E>. Priddle, Edward M. Stephen.

3. The cost of carrying out the work hereby sanctioned, <

estimated at the sum of ninety thousand two hundred and fifty' pounds, shall be defrayed from such Loan Votes as are now or may hereafter be applieablc thereto.

SCHEDULE.

This railway loaves the Illawarra line at about three miles twenty-three chains from Sydney at the southern end of the Marrickville Station, and proceeds almost duo west through the Municipalities of Marrickville and Canterbury. I t crosses the Ulawarra Eoad at four miles, (he Canterbury Road in Canterbury and Cook's River, and terminates a little beyond the crossing of the Burwood Eoad—as shown on the plan hereinbefore referred to, and subject to such deviations and modifications as may be considered desirable by the Constructing Authority.