The Spit to Manly Electric Tramway Act 1908 (NSW)

Act No. 2(), 1908,

iHESru To Manly All Act to Haiictioii tlic coiistructioii of an electric

h L E C T R I C ^

T ramway.

tramway from Tlie S])it to Manly : and for

other purposes. [21.s7 Drcf'iiihcr, 1908.]

Preamble.

IIEREAS in accordance wilh tlie provisions of the Public declare that it was expedient to carry out a certain work, namely, tlie

W Works Act, 1901), the Li'ii'islative Assembly did, by resolution, construction of an electric tramway from Tlie Spit to Wanly : And whereas, on the passim? of the said ri'solution, a statutory duty was by the said Act imposed on the Secretary for Ihdilic "Works to introduce a Bill into the said Assembly to sanction tlu' carryim? out of the said work : Be it therefore enacted by tlie King’s Most Excellent iMaji'sty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South AValcs in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : —

Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as The Sjiit to Manly Electric

Tramway Act, 1908.”

Work sanctioned. 2. The carrying out the said work (more particularly described in the Schedule to this Act) is hereby sanctioned; and the Secretary for Public AÂ orks, or the member of the Executive Council for the

time

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The Sptt io Mania lileciric Tramway.

time being performing the duties of the said Secretary, is hereby autliorised to undertake and carry out the said ivork, suliject to the provisions of this Aid, and for that purpose shall bo, and shall hav(; the powers and duties of, a Constructing Authority within the meaning of the Puhlie Works ..\et, 1900.

3. The plan of the said work is the plan mai'ked “ Tlu' Spit to i>i;m of work.

Wanly Tramway,” signed hy tlu* Secretary for Puhlie AVorks and count('rsigned hy tlu' Chief Engineer for Pailway and Tramway Construction, and deposited in the public olhce of the said Secretary.

4 .   The cost of carrying out the said work, estimated at thirty-six Cost, how to l e

thousand three hundrt'd and iifty-four pounds (which includes the cost of electric ]>ower, haulers, and rolling stock, but excludes the cost of resumptions) shall be defrayed from such .Loan Votes as are now or may hereafter he applicable to that ])urpose, or from appropriations of the Puhlie AVorks Eund or partly from such vott's ;uul partly from the said ap])ropriations, and shall not under any circumstances exceed the estimated cost by more than ten per centum.

SCHKDrLK.

T his line nunnioiiccs at llic j e t t v cm tlie rastc-i'ii side ef Tlie Sjiit, and jmiceeds easterly

for aliout 7 eliains aloiii,',S\iiiiry-nja(l, and ascends for about ”)0 chains through private projierty, the fii'st 20 ciiains of wliieli it lake's a course generally jiarallel to the eastern and soutireastern bonudai'ies of tliat I’oad, which it re-eiitei's at .about 70 ch.ains and follows for .0 . 0 chains to Iflectra-street ; thence it proceeds along that street to Halgow lah-road, along that road to ^Middle Marbour I'oad, along that road to Sebastopol-slreet : here the descent to iManly is coinnienccd, and a short iletour for a few chains through private projicrty is made; Sebasto] obstreet is then regained and followed to Janies-street ; here the liiK' curves northerlv, enters Ivanhoe I’ark and runs paralh'l to its wc'stern boundary, and also to )iart of i's northern boundary, to ;i point op]insite to Kangtiroo-street ; here the line enters and follows Itaglan strc'ct to the Sitcyne, where it ends by ti junction with the e.xisting trnniwiiy from IMtiidy to Curl Curl,—being a distance of .'S miles 1 chain bo links, ;ind subject to such deviati'iis and incditications as iiuty be considered desirable bv the Constructing Authority.

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