Mount Gambier Waterworks Act 1881 (SA)

ANNO QUADRAGESIMO QUARTO ET QUADRAGESIMO

QUINTO

No. 199.

An Act to authorise the construction of a Reservoir and other works for the purpose of affording a supply

of Water to the District of Mount Gambier.

[Assented to, Septefiber 28th, 1881.1

HEREAS it is desirable to authorise the construction of a Preamble.

reservoir and other works for the purpose of affording a supply of water to the District of Mount Gambier, according as the said district is defined in the Schedule A hereto: and whereas certain portions of the land intended to be used for such purpose have been already dedicated for public purposes: and whereas plans and sections showing the source of supply, and the said reservoir and other works, and the direction of the main and branch pipes, and the streets or grounds through which they are to be laid, and also books of reference containing the names of the owners and occupiers, or reputed owners or occupicrs (so far as known) of any private lands through which any of the said works will pass, have been deposited in the office of thc Suweyor-General, at Adelaide-Be it therefore Enacted by the Governor of the Province of South Aus- tralia, with the advice and consent of thc Legislative Council. and ,

8urveyor-General, rat Adelaide.

House of Assembly of the said province, in this present Parliament assembled, as follows:

1. The Commissioner of Waterworks may construct, out of anv ammisaioner of

moneys which have been or hereafter may be voted by ~arliam&t w1~terw01k.a om~tru~t x-e~rvoir map for such purpose, the reservoir and other works in accordance with and other W O ~. the plans and sections deposited as aforesaid in the ofhe of the

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Oammissiimer may 2. For the purposes of such reservoir and other works the

tatre pe~seeeion of

I=& asmriw in Commission& of Waterworks may enter upon and take possession

~ c h t d ~ l o	B.	of those lands heretofore dedicated for other public purposes, not-
withstanding such dedication which are described in the Schedule B hereto.

m 0mimions

in pkms, &C., may be 3. If any error, omission, misstatement, or wrong description

co-ed by J W ~ W, shall have been made of any lands or streams, or of the owners delienated or shown on the said plans or sections, or described in the book of reference deposited as aforesaid, the Commissioner of Waterworks, after giving ten days' notice to the owners or occupiers, or reputed owners or occupiers, of the lands or streams affected or likely to be affected by the correction of such error, omission, misstatement, or wrong description, may apply to any two

AO. " or occupiers, or reputed ownkrs or occupiers, of any lands or streams,

4 Justices to correct the same; and if it shall appear to such Justices that it is expedient and not unjust to correct such error, omission, misstatement, or wrong description, they shall give the said Commis- kioncr a certificate in such form as they shall think proper, and shall in such certificate state the particulars of any such error, omission, misstatement, or wrong description, and such certificate, with the documents to which it refers, shall be depositcd, with the other documents to which they refer, in the office of the Surveyor-General, and thereupon such plans, sections, or books of reference shall be deemed to be corrected according to such certificate, and the said Commissioner may make, complete, extend, aud maintain the works hereby authorised in accordance with such certificate as if such error, omission, misstatement, or wrong description had not been made.

sweyor-@nerd to 4. The Surveyor-General shall keep the said plans and sections

keep plans, &c.	and books of reference, and all other documents clcposited with him
for the purposes of this Act, and shall allow all persons interested
to inspect any of the documents aforesaid, and to make copies of and
from the same.

Tnco'pomtiun. 5. Except so far as the same are inconsistent with or altered by

this Act, The Adelaide City, Port, and Suburban Waterworks

Act," '' The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act," and an Act, No. 26 of 1855-6, To amend the Land8 Clauses Consolidation Act,' " shall be incorporated herewith, and for the purposes of this Act the expression " The Promoters of the Undertaking," whenever used

in The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act," shall mean the Commis-

sioner of Waterworks, and the words "Special Act " shall mean

this Act.

Intsrpretation. (3. In the construction of and for the purposes of this Act, and

G The Adelaide City, Port, and Suburban Waterworks Act," when

not inconsistent with the context, the expression thc undertaking" shall, in addition to the meaning assigned thereto by the said The

.

Adelaide City, Port, and $uburban Waterworks Act,'' mean and

include

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include the reservoir and all other works hereby authorised to be constructed; the expression lands and streams shall, in addition to the meaning assigned thereto by the said Act, mean and include the lands and streams of water hereby authorised to be taken or used for the purposes hereof, and the expression water area " shall, in addition to the meaning assigned thereto by the said Act, mean and include the District of Mount Gambier, accoxdmg as the same is defined in the Schedule A hereto.

7. This Act may be for all purposes cited as the "Mount Gambier shoa ntt.

Waterworks Act, 1881."

I n the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, I hereby as~~ent to

this Bill.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor.

SCHEDULE

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Motmt Gum	b b * Waterworks A c t. 1 8 8 1.
SCHEDULE A,

Comprieing the whole of sections 7, 8, 9, 10, 16, 420, 425. 426, 1100, 1101, 1102, and 1103, in the Hundred of Blanche, and bounded as follows :-On the north-east by the south-mestern side of road north-east of sections 8 and 9; on the south-eabt by the north-western boundaries of sections 14. 13, and 15; c n the south-west by the north-eastern side of road muth-west of sections 16, 425, 426, and 420 ; and on the north-west by the south-eastern boundaries of sections 11, 12, and 419.

SCHEDULE B.

Comprising all that portion of the Hundred of Blanche, south-west of a line 100

linke south-weat of and parallel to the south-wcatern boundaries of sections 83, 82,

81, 80, 79, 78, and 77; west of a line 100 links west of and parallel io the western boundary of section 478; north of road north of section 545; north-east of a line

bearing north-west from the north-west corner of said section to its intersection with

tbe emtern side of the main road from Macnonnell Bay to Mount Oambier and east

of main road aforesaid.

Adeldde : By authority, E. B P ~ L B B, Government Printer, North-brrnce.