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ATION.

PRAYA RECLAMATION.

No. 6 of 1889.

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proposed reclamation assigned to lessees in respect of the lots of land or sections thereof registered in their names at the Land Office at the date of the commencement of this Ordinance, shall be deposited at the said Office, and shall have annexed thereto a schedule containing a list of the lessees of such lots of land and sections as aforesaid and the approximate contribution required from each of them in respect of the cost of his portion of the reclamation;

(2) The deposit of such further plan as aforesaid shall be notified in the Gazette, a copy of the said schedule being published at the same time, and lessees who are desirous of entering into the agreement hereafter mentioned shall, within a period of 2 months from the date of such notification, signify respectively in writing their acceptance of the portions of the land assigned to them on the said plan and their intention to enter into an agreement;

(3) On the expiration of 2 months from the date of such notification as aforesaid and within a further period of one month, it shall be lawful for the Governor, if he thinks fit, to enter into an agreement with the lessees individually who have signified their acceptance and intention as aforesaid, such agreement being upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the form in the schedule; and the Governor is hereby empowered to dispose of the reclaimed land in accordance therewith;

(4) Notwithstanding any such agreement as aforesaid may have been signed by any lessee, if any error in the quantity or area of land agreed to be granted is discovered by either party thereto prior to the granting of a Crown lease of such land, it shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council to rectify and readjust the same, and to grant a less or greater portion of land, as the case may be, and to alter accordingly the lessee's contribution: Provided always that the lessee, if his portion of land is diminished, shall have the option, if he so elects, of cancelling the said agreement and thereupon all moneys which he may have already paid shall be refunded;

(5) Notwithstanding anything contained in the schedule to be deposited in the said Office as aforesaid or in any agreement entered into in pursuance of this Ordinance, no lessee shall be liable for more than the actual cost of the reclamation of the land agreed to be granted to him and of all works authorised by this Ordinance in connexion therewith (such actual cost, in case of doubt, to be decided by the Governor-in-Council), and if such cost exceeds or is less than the amount estimated or named in such schedule or any agreement, ...