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PRAYA RECLAMATION.

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No. 6 of 1889.

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are hereinafter referred to as the lessees) or the majority of (s. 8. contd.] them, have already declared or signified their readiness to of reclaimed contribute towards the cost to be incurred for and in con- land. nexion with the works authorised by this Ordinance, provided the Governor will grant to them respectively Crown. leases of such equitable proportion of the proposed reclamation as may be available, having regard to public requirements in respect of the roads and streets to be made on the land when reclaimed, and in the case of each lessee having regard to the claims of other lessees; AND WHEREAS it has been agreed that the cost of the said works shall also include a sum not exceeding 5,000 dollars for preliminary expenses, a sum not exceeding 180,000 dollars by way of compensation to owners and occupiers of wharves and piers along the line of the proposed reclamation, and a further sum not exceeding 105,000 dollars for the purchase of a portion of the land in course of reclamation opposite Marine Lots Nos. 95, 96, 97, 98, and 105:---

(1) A further plan, signed by the Surveyor General and countersigned by the Governor, showing in detail the portion of the 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, with- in a period of two 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;

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(3) On the expiration of two months from the date of such fication 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 aforesaid, such agreement being upon the terms and subject to the

*As amended by Law Rev, Ord., 1923, and Law Am. Ord., 1923.