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The Laura to Booleroo Centre Railway Act.-1907.

requisition not paid within two years

Commissioner may publish notice.

28. If within two years from the publication in the Government If amount of Gazette of a requisition upon the said Council as herein before provided the amount of the requisition shall not be paid to the Commissioner, he may publish in the Government Gazette a notice in the form in the Fourth Schedule hereto, or in a form to the like effect.

sioner of Council's

29. Upon such publication all the rights and powers of the Transfer to CommisCouncil in reference to the recovery of the railway rate or rates rights for recovery of mentioned in the notice, or for the letting or sale of land for non- rate. payment of such rate or rates, shall be transferred to and vested in the Commissioner; and the Commissioner, or any person authorised by him in that behalf, may exercise any power or do any act which could before such publication have been exercised or done in reference to the recovery of any such rates by any district clerk, collector, receiver, or other officer of or person acting under the authority of the Council.

30. If any railway rate shall not within one year from its declara- Supplementary railtion produce the required sum, the Council shall from time to time way rates. declare another railway rate until the required sum shall be produced; and all the provisions of this Act with regard to a rate declared under section 22 shall, so far as applicable, apply to a rate under this section.

31. If any railway rate shall produce more money than required Application of surplus of railway rate. for its purpose, the surplus shall be held by the Council as a fund applicable towards meeting any requisition thereafter made by the Commissioner under this Act, and so much thereof as shall not be required for that purpose within five years from the declaration of the rate shall be applied from time to time towards payment of any District Council rate due in respect of the ratable property on which the railway rate shall have been paid.

32. All the provisions of the District Councils Act, so far as the same relate to rates declared under such Act, and the recovery thereof (except as to limitations of the amounts of such rates) shall, subject to the provisions of this Act and so far as applicable, apply to railway rates under this Act.

Application of District railway rates.

Councils Act to

evidence of railway

33. The Government Gazette containing a notice of the declaring Government Gazette of a railway rate in the form in the Third Schedule hereto, or in a rate. form to the like effect, shall be evidence, and, except on proceedings to quash such rate, shall be conclusive evidence that the rate has been

duly declared.

rate to Commissioner.

34. The moneys received by a railway rate shall, up to the amount Payment of railway for which the Commissioner shall have made a requisition, be paid to him by the Council.

35. The

Government Gazette to be evidence of statement, &c.

The Laura to Booleroo Centre Railway Act.-1907.

35. The Government Gazette containing any order, statement, notice, requisition, or other publication made or given by the Governor or the Commissioner under this Act shall be conclusive evidence of the fact, tenor, and validity of such order, statement, notice, requisition, or other publication, and of the facts stated, recited, or assumed therein; and no such order, statement, notice, requisition, or other publication shall be invalid by reason of any thing required as preliminary thereto not having been duly done.

In the name and on behalf of His Majesty, I hereby assent to
this Bill.
GEORGE R. LE HUNTE, Governor.

SCHEDULES

The Laura to Booleroo Centre Railway Act.-1907.

SCHEDULES.

THE FIRST SCHEDULE.

"The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act."

Act No. 26 of 1855-6, to amend "The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act."

"The Lands Clauses Consolidation Amendment Act, 1881."

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The Railways Clauses Consolidation Act."

Act No. 6 of 1858, to amend "The Railways Clauses Consolidation Act." "The Railways Clauses Act, 1876."

"The South Australian Railways Commissioners Act, 1887."

"The South Australian Railways Commissioners Act Amendment Act, 1894." All other Acts passed, or hereafter to be passed, amending any of the said Acts, or substituted therefor.

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THE SECOND SCHEDULE.

THE LAURA TO BOOLEROO CENTRE RAILWAY.

1, [name of Returning Officer], certify that a poll taken on the

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19 in the District of Port Germein on the question whether the above-mentioned railway should be constructed in pursuance of "The Laura to Booleroo Centre Railway Act, 1907," resulted as follows:

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THE THIRD SCHEDULE.

NOTICE OF RAILWAY RATE.

At a meeting of the District Council of Port Germein, duly held on

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19 a railway rate was declared

in the pound upon the assessment of that part of the District of Port Germein which is situated within the Laura and Booleroo Centre Railway District; and all persons liable are required to pay the amount of the rate, according to the assessment, to the District Clerk (or Collector or other officer) at the district office.

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Chairman of the District Council of Port Germein (or District Clerk).

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Notice is hereby given that all moneys unpaid in respect of the railway rate (or rates) declared by the District Council of Port Germein on the

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19 [if more than one rate add date of declaration of every other rate] are to be paid to the South Australian Railways Commissioner. Dated this

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19

[Signature of Commissioner]

The South Australian Railways Commissioner.

THE FIFTH SCHEDULE.

[PLAN.]

Adelaide By authority, C. E. BRISTOW, Government Printer, North Terrace.

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