Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated ActsPreamble
Whereas by the first section of an Act of Council passed in the fourth and
fifth year of the reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled
“An Act to provide for the improvement of Towns in the Colony of Western
Australia,” 2 the right of property in all streets, paths, canals,
towing-paths, ferries, bridges and other thoroughfares within the limits of
any townsite is vested in the respective trustees of each such town; and
whereas in several instances a difficulty has been experienced in recognising
the exact lines of the streets, because many of the surveyors’ marks by
which such lines were originally defined have been either removed, destroyed
or obliterated in the course of time; and whereas it is highly expedient to
ascertain the precise limits of the streets so vested in each Town Trust
respectively and to define the same by conspicuous and permanent marks, so as
to enable the said Trustees to preserve the regularity of the streets and to
prevent any encroachment thereon: