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HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO SECUNDO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.

No. of 1859. :.

By The Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel William Caine, Acting Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.

An Ordinance to provide for the erection of a Public Way along the Water Frontage point

of the City of Victoria.

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January, 1859. d: Whereas it is desirable that a Public Way should be erected continuously along the Water Frontage Preamble. of the City of Victoria: Be it enacted and ordained by The Honourable the Acting Governor of Hong- kong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :—

Power to construct

I. It shall be lawful for the Governor to give authority to the Surveyor General to construct, or procure to be constructed, one uniform and continuous Quay or Praya, and all Works connected therewith, Praya, along the Water Frontage of the City of Victoria, extending from Navy Bay at the extreme West thereof, to Wong-nei-choong at the extreme East thereof.

II. The said Quay or Praya shall be called the Bowring Praya.

Name of Praya

III. The said Quay or Praya and Works connected therewith shall be erected from Designs and Plans

Praya to be erected prepared by the Surveyor General; and the Ground Plan thereof shall be exhibited for Public inspection according to Plans pre- in the Office of the Surveyor General during Office-hours for a period of Two Weeks, before any Works viously published. shall be commenced by him under the authority of this Ordinance.

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IV. In the event of any difficulty occurring in the prolongation of the "Boundary Lines" of Marine

Prolongation Lots through Land reclaimed or to be reclaimed from the Sea, it shall be lawful for the Surveyor General Boundary Lines of to fix and determine the direction and extent of such prolonged Boundary Lines, provided that he do first Lote affected. insert the same on the Plans of the said Praya and Works so open to Public inspection as aforesaid.

Holders of Marine

V. It shall be lawful for the Governor, on the recommendation of the Surveyor General, to authorize Power to give effect and give effect to any Compromise to be come to, between the Governor on behalf of the, Crown, and the to compromises be Holder of the Crown Lease of any Marine Lot, by which the Claims of such older and the Claims of the tween the Crown and Crown respectively, may be adjusted equitably and to the advantage of the Colony. And for this purpose Lots affected. it shall be lawful for the Governor to sanction the crection, by any such Marine Lot-holder, of the portion of the said Prays to be erected immediately in front of his own Lot: Provided only that the Erection of any such portion of the said Praya shall be carried on and completed under the inspection and to the satisfaction. of the Surveyor General, and in accordance with the Plan by him prepared or approved.

Estimated

VI. The Surveyor General shall in every ensuing Year, at some time before the Month of June, submit to the Governor a Statement of the portion of the Works proposed by him to be carried out under this annually submitted by Ordinance within the Year next following, and Estimates of the Expenditure to be incurred on account Surveyor General. thereof. And it shall be lawful for the Governor to propose such Estimates, or any of them, in any Ordin ance, making Provision for the Contingent Expenditure of the Colony to be dealt with in like manuer as any other Estimate to be so proposed.

VIL It shall be lawful for the Surveyor General, and all Officera, Servants, and Workmen employed Power of Entry be by or under him, at all times, and with all necessary means and appliances, to enter upon all or any Lands Surveyör General adjacent or approaching to the site of the said Praya, in the course of its erection, and to do thereon all that shall be necessary for carrying out the Works provided for by this Ordinance.

VIII. If any Person shall wilfully obstruct any Person acting under the authority of this Ordinance, Penalty for obstrue-

or destroy, remove, or injure any Timber, Stone, or other Material to be employed in or about the erection tion, ko

of the said Praya, or shall deface any Marks which shall have been made for the purposes of this Ordinance,

he shall forfeit for every such Offence a Sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars

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IX. Every Holder of the Crown Lease of a Marine Lot who shall sustain any Loss or Damage by Provisor Sare reason of any Work, Matter or Thing done under the authority of this Ordinance, on the Area occupied by sement of Damage the Tenant and set forth in the Lease aforesaid, shall be entitled to Compensation; and the Amount to be paid bereby occasioned se as such Compensation shall be assessed by the Sheriff and a Common Jury, in the same manner as in cases Holder of

Lou where Judgment has been suffered to go by default by a Defendant in an Action-at-law. And on return made by the Sheriff of the Amount assessed as such Compensation as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the Go- *ernor to direct such Amount to be paid by the Colonial Treasurer to the Person entitled to receive the same.

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