BE

Assented to 27th September, 1915.]

E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as the Newcastle-Bolgart Railway Ex- Short title. tension Act, 1915.

construct.

2. It shall be lawful to construct and maintain a railway, with Authority to all necessary, proper, and usual works and conveniences in connection therewith, along the line described in the Schedule to this Act.

3. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Public Works Deviation. Act, 1902, it shall be lawful for the Minister for Works to deviate from the line as described in such Schedule to the extent of one mile on either side thereof.

4. At any time after the passing of this Act, and until the Power to Governor expiration of twelve months from the publication of notice in the to compulsorily purchase land Government within 15 miles of railway.

Purchase money to be determined under Public

Works Act, 1902.

Governor may require surrender, etc., to be made.

Application of
No. 46 of 1909.

Government Gazette declaring the railway open for traffic, the
Governor may-

(a.) With the object of encouraging the cultivation and settle-
ment of the land, compulsorily purchase any land in
parcels of not less than one thousand acres, each parcel
being the property of one person or two or more per-
sons, jointly or in common, and situated within fifteen
miles of any part of the line of the railway, and which
land is certified by the Minister for Lands as suitable
for closer agricultural settlement;

(b.) Compulsorily purchase any land situated as aforesaid for

townsites:

Provided that no land shall be compulsorily purchased under paragraph (a) of this section until the Land Purchase Board has favourably reported thereon.

5. On the determination by the Governor from time to time to exercise the power conferred by the last preceding section, any land within such defined limits may be taken under the Public Works Act, 1902, and the provisions of that Act shall apply, and the amount of the purchase money shall be determined as compensation is determined under that Act:

Provided that, on the exercise of any such power, or on the acquisition by the Governor, within the said period, of land situated as aforesaid for any work within the meaning of the Public Works Act, 1902, no regard shall be had to any increased value occasioned by the railway, and the purchase money shall be assessed at the probable and reasonable price which the land, with any improvements thereon, or the estate or interest of the claimant therein, might have been expected to realise if offered for sale at the date the land was taken, and if the railway had not been constructed or authorised.

6. Before the purchase money is paid for any land compulsorily purchased under the authority of this Act, the Governor may require the claimant to execute a surrender, conveyance, or transfer of the land to the Crown, or as the Governor may direct, free from all encumbrances.

7. All such land acquired under paragraph (a) of section four shall be dealt with under the provisions of the Agricultural Lands Purchase Act, 1909, and the purchase money may be paid out of any moneys authorised to be raised and expended by that Act, or as therein prescribed.

SCHEDULE

SCHEDULE.

NEWCASTLE-BOLGART RAILWAY FURTHER EXTENSION.

Description of Line of Railway.

Commencing at a point on Crown Lands near the South-West corner of Location 1510, Melbourne District, and proceeding thence in a generally Northerly direction for about four miles and terminating at a point in Crown Lands near the North-West corner of Location 1518, Melbourne District; as more particularly delineated and coloured red on map marked P.W.D., W.A., 18377, deposited pursuant to 2 Edward VII., No. 47, Section 96. four miles.

Total length, about

By Authority: FRED. WM. SIMPSON, Government Printer, Perth.

AN ACT to apply out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund the sum of Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds; and from Moneys to Credit of the General Loan Fund, One Hundred Thousand Pounds, to the Service of the Year ending 30th June, 1916. [Assented to 30th September, 1915.]

MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN,

WE,

VE, Your Majesty's Most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects, the Preamble. Members of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in Parliament assembled, towards making good the Supply which we have cheerfully granted to your Majesty in this Session of Parliament, have resolved to grant unto Your Majesty the sum hereinafter mentioned; and do, therefore, most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted: And be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. There shall and may be issued and applied for or towards Issue and applicamaking good the supply granted to His Majesty for the service of tion of £650,000. the year from 1st July, 1915, to 30th June, 1916, the Sum of Five

Hundred