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D 1894.]

TAIPINGSHAN RESUMPTION.

[No. 2.

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est at the rate of seven per cent. from the 1st day of June, 1894, until ment either to the persons entitled thereto or into Court as aforesaid.

All sums paid into Court may be invested in such manner as a Investment of dge

sums paid of the Court may, of his own motion or on the application of into Court. person interested therein, direct.

for compen-

25. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be deemed to affect any agree- Saving as to nt arrived at between the Crown or the Governor and the owner of agreements

land resumed hereunder for the payment of any compensation, sation.

the final award of the Board and the publication thereof.

26 The Governor may, by private contract, exchange any other Powers of exchange. nds for any lands resumed under this Ordinance, on such terms and ditions as to the payment of the difference in the value thereof and otherwise as he may think fit, and may execute all such deeds and documents as may be necessary in that behalf.

which com- pensation, etc., to be paid.

27. All sums required for the purposes of this Ordinance for com- Funds out of ensation or costs of arbitration as against the Crown shall be borne nd paid out of the public funds of the Colony, or may be raised, provided for, or paid by public loan or in such other manner as may be

thorized by Ordinance.

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28. No action or suit shall be commenced or lie, or, if commenced, chall be continued, against the Crown, or against the Sanitary Board or y Committee thereof, or against any person whomsoever for any loss damage incurred by or resulting to any person by reason- (1) of the removal, either before or after the commencement of this Ordinance, of the occupants of any house or part of a house, closed by orders of the Sanitary Board, or of the loss of any rent occasioned thereby, within the said area of the Taipingshan Dis- trict; or

(2) of the shutting up or closing of any houses or streets, either before or after the commencement of this Ordinance, by order of the Sanitary Board, within the said area of the Taipingshan District; or

(8) of the destruction or removal of or of the damage, either before or after the commencement of this Ordinance, to any furniture, fittings, mezzanine floors, cocklofts, partitions, or articles in any house closed or disinfected by orders of the Sanitary Board hereby resumed, provided such destruction, removal, or damage occurred during the prevalence of the Bubonic Plague or during any opera- tions which were necessary or deemed necessary for the cleansing and disinfecting of any such houses, either before or after the

mmencement of this Ordinance; or

Barring of

actions against the Crown, etc.,

for certain matters.