CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6] — Page 456

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granted to the...

"like powers were Vier and Godown Company for

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the

construction of a tier at the Eastern

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f

end of the Thaya, with the addition

of sections providing for transfer,

mortgage

of the

, or lease, of

"undertaking, embodying the ---

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same conditions as those contained

in

corresponding

sections

of

the

"recent Tramways Ordinance?"

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(signed) &.£.O'Malley"

In support of the

allegation of the ilttorney-General that the forms prescribed for

Frivate

Private Bills had been substantially

observed, it

may be useful to give here a brief narrative of the brief-narrative

proecedings previous to the

introduction

of

this

measure.

From

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the official records furnished to me by the Colonial Secretary, it. appears that when this scheme

first proposed by Mr. Bulkeley Johnson, on behalf of the firm of

was

Jardine, Matheson & Co, it was

referred by my (the Governor's) direction for the opinion of the Surveyor-General and of the Harbour

Master