CO129-252 - Acting Governor Barker & Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1891 [12] — Page 259

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(i) Lustly, to give power to the

Governor in formal to make

rules for the payment of an animal pout for everoachments our the foreshores by piers and

The principal ordinanes

whand.

did not require

mention

L

таки

of any

rent to be

paid for

and

such enenoxthments

attempts have heen made

to avoid such payment

presumably

I it was not expressly authorised

on the ground stat

is remedied

by law. This

and the Schedule to this Ordinance

contains rules

unda scale

of charges which is based on what has been the practice

hitherto.

4..

The introduction of the power for the Surveyor General to block up streets has neve been expressly sanctioned by

Ordinance

Ordinanc

деспед

and it has been

most necessary that

this power should be taken.

The only suggestion of such a

Carr

power to be found so far and

lobe

discover in our local

ordinances (apart from the

Praya Reclamation ordinance 1887)

is in ordinance No. 12 of 1856o which

prohibits under a

penalty the obstruction of streets to but section 14 restricts the operation of the

prohibition in

or

Cares

where

" any act

thing is done under lawful authority bearing howers the expression lawful authority" unexplained and undefined.

Sof. Andrar d. Leach Acty. Attorney General

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