Port Adelaide Railway Act 1851 (SA)

No. l.

nzent Gazette to declare itlie said Adelaide City aud Port Railwwq.

Act to have ceased and determined, so far o d v as to the powers arid privileges $hereby given to and vestid ill the Aile1:iide City and Port Railway Company; and that tlr~el~upon the riplite - 1 and privileges conferred by the said Ordinance upon the s:t~c

Company shall utterly cease a rd deterniix~e, and any grants of lnnc

whi& may have beer; made, or engaged to be made; l & or 011 hehnl-

of Her Majesty shall be void, and the land there1)y gra~ktcd shal

revest in Her Majesty in the same inarmer 3s t l i ~ ~ g l l such grim

or the s;tid " Adelaide Cityand Port Railway Act" lml ~ o t beer

made, or engaged to be made: Provided always that the period f. b ~

2 1 7/-$&P~7 d - 2, completing the said Railway and its bimches shall be five yea?: -V-

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-- i' from the tw- rd i day of S$Gluber, one tliousa~~d eigl~t 11un

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2x2 =-7/ 1 6 d and fifty-me, &stead _C of three years, as fixed by the said Ur

dinance.

Undertakers.

Governornlay vyoin t

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2. And be it Enacted, That it sliall be lawful for the Governo and Legislative Council to appoint certaiu persons not b&g fewe than five (two to be appointed by tlie Governor :tnd tlirec by tlil Legislative Council), to be Undertakers for the construction, ' com pl&tion, and malia&;cient of the Adelaide City aad Port I:;iilwav as defined in the Adelaide City and Port R & W ~ A ~ & " aucl tl!; the Undertakers so ap@iuted s11allt -liavK-GqZpowers, ztnd slznl

elect their own Chairman, and that at every ixleeting of such I ~ ~ I J P ~

takers three &a11 forin s cruoruni, and that froill and after sucl

appointment all the J i g l a & v e r s, hn*iyileEs by the said ".4d c

laide City a d Port Rallwzty ActT-glven to, and 1-111 ciuties a111

obligations t,hrel)y imposed upon, the Adelaide City and Por Bailway Coillpan~, 3w far ;v the same s l d l rclntc or apply to th

construction and conlpletiorl of tile said Railway, a ~ d the L I I R I I ~ ~

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,	ment and yorli.mg, t l i e r e ~ s h a l l be enjoyed a i d e x e r Z s i i l L '
vested in, and b~nding upon such ~ n d a r d c e r n.

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Governor may issue	3. And be it Enacted, That it sl~all	be lawful for the Governo
money toundertakcr~.

!	fkom time. to time, out of the General Itevenue of tlle Coloily, 1)	warralrt of paynlent directed ill the custuuiwry ruanner to tL	Colonial Treasurer, to issue to the said Unclertakers for the cor
struction of the said Adelaide City and Port Ir:xilway m y suns (
nioney not excecdiilg in the wl~ole the sum of ForQ-five Tl~ousan
~ o u i d s, and such further and other sums (if any) as may be a1 propriated to such purpose by a d with the consent of the Legif lnture of this Colony.

Endertakers may sue 4. And he it further Enacted, That tllc Uriderti~liers so a]

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pointed may sue and be sued in the i ~ n n z ~ or ~lames of ally 01

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of sncli Untlcrtalrers, or of tliek Secretary or Clerk for the t i i~ agtliiist the said Irndcrtakcrs, or any of them, shall ahate or disco1 tilme by the death or removal of such Undertaliers, or of tlicir S( cretary or Clerk, or any of thcm, or by the act of such lindertnkcr Secretary, or Clerk, or any of them: Yrovidcd always, that nothin hcrcin contained shall be deemed, construed, or t a k b to extend ~1 make the Undertakers, or any of tllew, or their Secretary or cleel t;

7. A d be it Enact,cd, That tllic main line of Railroad to Port Main line of Railway

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-4clel:tide, betweell its termini a t Adclnitlr :d Port Adcl:de, s l d	\	@
be first completed a id brought iuto o p x t i o n before the bmiiclr
road to t11c Xortli Arm be coiu~ueiiced.

JOIIN MOltl'IIET'l', Speaker.

Passed the Legislatizw Council tltis First

dny oJ' October, One Tt~oustxnd Bight

Hundred and Pi&-orhe.

F. C. SINGLETON,

Clerk of Council.

In the name and on the behalf' of Her Majesty I assent to this Act.

H. E. F. YOUNG,

G overnmcnt Ilouse, Adeli~idc, 1,ieutenant-Croverllor.

3rd October, 1851.

AUELUUE: rr i~i ted by authority, by W. C. Cox,