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Railways, roads & transport, 1861

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Parliamentary Paper. a Bill to Amend Certain Acts Relating to Railways and Roads

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 7 December 1861 · page 6

[?]peal of a limitation in [?] 84 of 22 vic. No. 19. The eighty-fourth section of this Act twenty-second Victoria number nineteen as far as the power of the Commissioner of Railways and of persons authorised…

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The Tramroad From Dungog to Cla[?] Town. To the Editors of the Maitland[?] M[?]

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 7 December 1861 · page 2

DEAR HUMANE SIRS—As a deeply interested [?] will you allow me to enquire through the meidum of your va[?] columns, when the widely diffused, and [?] and anxiety upon the above subject, is likely to [?]…

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Friday, 6Th December. Road. Department of Lands, Sydney, 30th November, 1861

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 14 December 1861 · page 6

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, having deemed it expedient to open and make a parish road (to be maintained tit the expense of the parishes through which it passes) from Goorangoola to the main…

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Maitland Mercury. Thursday, December 19, 1861. the Railway Lines

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 19 December 1861 · page 2

WE are somewhat puzzled with the present position of the projected Morpeth Railway. The Assembly has voted £20 000 for the Government to construct the line with; and yet…

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Parliamentary Paper. Railway Obstruction to Gaol and Courthouse Reserve in the Town of Maitland

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 21 December 1861 · page 9

The Select Committee of the Legislative Assembly, appointed on the 25th October last "to inquire into and report upon the allegations contained in the petition of the inhabitants of Maitland and its vicinity, presented…

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