RAILWAY RESOLUTIONS.
The following resolutions to regulate the possible construction of branch lines of railway were introduced late in the session by Mr. Reid, and were carried, after a pretty strong opposition had been raised by Mr. M'Lean and others. The proposals are intended, by giving certain rating powers, to check indiscriminate railway construe* tion to benefit private owners of properties :
1. No District Bailway shall be undertaken or authorised by the Provincial Government to be constructed until the consent of not less than two-thirds of the owners of property in the District, supposed to be benefitted by such Railway (the boundaries of such District to be defined by this Council) shall have been obtained to a rate being levied from time to time on all property within such District to, a sufficient amount to make up twofifths of the deficiency (if any) of the interest on the cost of constructing such Eailway, and the whole of the deficiency - (if any) of the cost of working the line over and above the £cost of levying and collecting such rate. 2. That for the purpose of ascertaining the consent of the owners of property in any district, in terms of the preceding Resolution, the votes of such owners shall be calculated in proportion to the property held by them, oh a scale similar to that provided in the " Otago Roads Ordinance, 1871," for the purposes of that Ordinance. >
3. When any District Railway has to be constructed through any district in which there are unsold lands of the Crown such lands as shall be included in such district shall be rated to the same extent as other lands, and the rate payable in respect of such lands shall be paid out of Provincial revenues 'until such lands shall be sold. ■
4. That special provision shall be made with the owners of mines, or any works of any description, to which any such line is to be constructed, for contributiug towards the payment of working expenses and interest, as may be determined by the Conncil. J
For the purposes of these Resolutions, a District Railway shall mean a railway connecting with a Main Branch or Main Line of Railway.
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 277, 26 June 1874, Page 2
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367RAILWAY RESOLUTIONS. Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 277, 26 June 1874, Page 2
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