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An Act for declaring that all Grants in Fee Simple of Land in the Province of South Australia heretofore made or hereafter to be made shall be construed to include all Minerals and Metals, including Gold and Silver, on or under such lands.

[Reserved, 21st December, 1877.]

HEREAS doubts have arisen whether or not all minerals and Preamble.

W metals, more particularly gold and silver, belong to the

owner in fee simple of land heretofore alienated from the Crown, and it is desirable to remove such doubts, and to declare as is hereinafter declared-Be it therefore Enacted by the Governor of the Province of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly of the said Province, in this present Parliament assembled, as follows:

to include all

silver.

1. The grant in fee simple of any land in South Australia Fee simple of lands heretofore granted or hereafter to be granted shall be construed to minerals and metals, include and to convey to the owner in fee simple for the time being including gold and of such land the absolute property in all mines and minerals including gold and silver (commonly termed Royal Metals), nothing whatever above or below the surface of the land being reserved by the Crown.

I reserve this Bill for the signification of Her Majesty's pleasure thereon.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor.

Adelaide By authority, W. C. Cox, Government Printer, North-terrace.

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An Act to authorize the construction, maintenance and working of a Dock on part of Sections Nos. 2112 and 704 at Port Adelaide, and for other purposes.

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[Assented to, 21st December, 1877.]

HEREAS the Honorable Joseph Fisher, of near Mitcham, in Preamble. the Province of South Australia, a Member of the Legislative Council, the Honorable Philip Santo, of Clapham Park, in the said Province, a Member of the Legislative Council, the Honorable John Crozier, of Oaklands, in the said Province, a Member of the Legislative Council, William Henry Charnock, of Adelaide, in the said Province, merchant, John Webster, of Adelaide, aforesaid, merchant, Henry Simpson, of Adelaide, aforesaid, merchant, Thomas Allsop Brock, of Port Adelaide, in the said Province, Esq., William Henry Bayley, of Port Adelaide, in the said Province, Esq., William Urquhart, of Adelaide, in the said Province, Esq., Charles Lennox Gardiner, of the Semaphore, in the said Province, Esq., and David Reid, of Port Adelaide, in the said Province, Esq., hereafter called the promoters, are possessed of or entitled to certain land, part of Sections Nos. 2112 and 704, situate at or near Port Adelaide, in the Province of South Australia, and are desirous of constructing, maintaining, and working a dock for receiving and berthing ships on part of such land: And whereas for the purpose of gaining more convenient access to the dock so proposed to be constructed, it is desirable to alter the course of a certain public creek running through part of Section No. 2011 at Port Adelaide aforesaid, now the property of the South Australian Company, of No. 4, New Broad-street, London: And whereas a map or plan, hereinafter called the said plan, signed by the said the Honorable Joseph Fisher

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Short title.

Construction.

Alteration of course of creek running through the South

The Port Adelaide Dock Act.-1877.

and the said Charles Lennox Gardiner, on behalf of " the promoters," and countersigned by Harold Mayo Addison, of Adelaide, Licensed Surveyor, showing the present course of the said public creek, and the alteration proposed to be made as aforesaid, has been deposited in the Survey Office at Adelaide: And whereas, an amended map or plan has been prepared, signed by the Honorable William Morgan, showing the course of the said public creek through Section No. 2112, and the alteration proposed to be made therein, has been also deposited in the Survey Office, at Adelaide: And whereas great advantage would result to the public from the construction, maintenance, and working of such dock, but the said promoters are unable, without the authority of Parliament, to alter the course of the said public creek and obtain convenient access to the said proposed dock: And whereas it is therefore expedient to alter or authorize the alteration of the course of the said public creek-Be it therefore Enacted by the Governor of the Province of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly of the said Province, in this present Parliament assembled, as follows:

1. This Act may for all purposes be cited as "The Port Adelaide Dock Act."

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2. In the construction of this Act the words "the promoters shall include the persons named in the Preamble hereto, their heirs and assigns.

3. The course of the said public creek running through part of Section No. 2011, at Port Adelaide, as shown in the said plan, shall Australian Company's be altered as follows, that is to say

dock.

1. All those pieces of land covered with water (being part of the present course of the said creek), delineated in the said plan and therein colored green, except a small part thereof marked with the letter C in the same plan, shall be and become the property of the said the South Australian Company, and an estate in fee simple thereof shall be and is hereby vested in the said The South Australian Company and their successors: 11. All those pieces of land covered with water (being part of the present course of the said creek) delineated in the said plan, and therein colored blue, shall continue and be part of the bed or course of a public navigable creek:

III. All those pieces of land, and all those pieces of land covered with water, delineated in the said plan, and therein colored pink, shall be and become part of the bed or course of a public navigable creek, and the said The South Australian Company shall cease to have any estate, right, title, or interest therein or thereto, or to any part or parcel thereof: IV. All that piece of land at present forming part of the road dividing the said Section No. 2011 from the said Section No.

2112

The Port Adelaide Dock Act.-1877.

2112 (being the continuation of St. Vincent-street), de-
lineated in the said plan, and therein colored brown and
marked A A, shall be and become part of the bed or course
of a public navigable creek:

v. All those two pieces of land delineated in the said plan and
therein colored brown (being part of the present course of
the said creek) and therein marked D D, shall be and become
public roads; and an estate in fee simple thereof shall be and
is hereby vested in the said The South Australian Com-
pany and their successors:

VI. All that small piece of land covered with water, delineated in the said plan and therein colored green and marked C (being part of the present course of the said creek), shall be and become the property of the promoters; and an estate in fee simple thereof shall be and is hereby vested in the said pro

moters:

VII. All that piece of land covered with water, delineated in the said plan and therein colored brown and marked B (being part of the present course of the said creek), shall be and become or form part of the public road dividing the said Section No. 2011 from the said Section No. 2112:

VIII. All that piece of land being part of the present bed or course of the said creek which lies within the boundaries of the said Section No. 2112, or which is delineated in the plan drawn in the margin of the land grant of the said Section No. 2112, as being part of the present bed or course of the said creek, shall be and become the property of the promoters, and an estate in fee-simple thereof shall be and is hereby vested in the said promoters.

cavate course of creek as altered.

4. The promoters may excavate and deepen the course of the said Promoters may expublic navigable creek as fixed by this Act from one end to the other end thereof to such depth as they may think necessary so as to enable ships and vessels to gain access to the docks proposed to be constructed as aforesaid.

5. The said promoters shall, before excavating or removing any soil from that piece of land heretofore forming part of the public road dividing the said Section No. 2011 from the said Section No. 2112, marked in the said plan with the letters A A, fill up with earth to the present level of the surrounding ground that piece of land covered with water heretofore part of the bed or course of a public creek marked in the said plan with the letter B.

6. The promoters shall before the said dock is opened for the use of ships, erect, and thereafter maintain, and keep in repair, for the use of the public, over that part of the course of the said navigable creek as altered by this Act, where such creek crosses the public road or street lying between or separating the said

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