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Title to reclaimed land, and

private

rights therein.

No: 6 of 1889.

PRAYA RECLAMATION.

embankment to commence westward at a point upon the sea-shore opposite Marine Lot No. 188 and marked upon the said plan, and to terminate eastward at a point opposite to Murray Pier; the said embankment to be constructed in whole or in greater part upon the bed or foreshore of the Harbour;

(2) the making upon the said embankment of a public roadway not less than seventy-five feet wide, and the widen- ing out of the present Praya roadway to a width of not less than seventy-five feet, with all necessary and convenient approaches to the same; and

(3) the reclaiming and inclosing and filling up of so much of the foreshore and bed of the Harbour as lies between the present Praya wall and the intended embankment, to such heights and levels as may be determined by the Governor.

[s. 6, rep. No. 62 of 1911.]

7. All the land and foreshore and bed of the sea to be reclaimed under this Ordinance, and all the land occupied extinction of by the present Praya roadway and wall along the line of the intended reclamation, are hereby declared to be absolutely the property of the Crown, free from any restriction what- ever, and the Governor shall have power, subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, to deal with the same and to dispose of the same for building or any other purpose in the- same way and to as full an extent as in the case of other Crown lands; and all property, estate, rights or supposed rights, and easements or supposed easements of any persons or class of persons, whether Crown leaseholders or licensees or otherwise, to the user or possession or occupation of, in, over, or in any way in relation to such land, foreshore, bed of the sea, embankment, reclamation, or Praya roadway! and wall, or in relation to any wharf, landing place, pier, or other place situate thereupon, are hereby declared to be absolutely extinguished and determined.

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8. Whereas the Crown lessees or their assigns registered in the Land Office at the date of the commencement of this Ordinance-in-respect of the lots of land or sections thereofa fronting the Praya roadway along the line of the proposed. reclamation (which persons, with their executors, adminis- trators, and assigns, except where repugnant to the context;;

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