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1116 ( 16 OF 1889. ) PRAYA RECLAMATION .

Provisions as
to cost of
17. Whereas the Crown lessees or their assigns registered in
works and the Land Registry Office at the date of the commencement of
agreements this ordinance in respect of the lots of land or sections thereof
& c. fronting the Praya Roadway along the line of the proposed
reclamatiou (which persons with their executors, administrators
and assigus except where repugnant to the context are herein
after referred to as lessees) or the majority of them have already
declared or signified their readiness to contribute towards the
cost to be incurred for and in connection with the works
authorized 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
beeu agreed that the cost of the said works shall also include a
su!n not exceeding $ 5,000 for preliminary expenses, a suun not
exceerling $ 180,000 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 for the
purchase of a portion of the land in conrse of reclamation
opposite Marine Lots Nos. 95 , 96, 97 , 98 and 105. Be it
further enacted as follows :

Detailed plan
to be made
( i. ) As soon as practicable after the commencement of
and deposited this ordinance, a further plan signed by the Surveyor
with schedule General and countersigned by the Governor, show
of lessees and
their contri. ing in detail the portion of the proposed reclama
butions at
Land Office . tion assigned to lessees in respect ofthe lots of land
or sections thereof registered in their names at the
Land Registry office at the date of the commence
ment 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 approxiinate con
tribution required from each of them in respect of
the cost of his portion of the reclamation .
Deposit to be
notified and
( ii. ) The deposit of such further plan as aforesaid shall be
schedule to be notified * in the Gazette, a copy of the said schedule
published in
Gazette.
being published at the same time, and lessees who
[ * See Gore are desirous of entering into the agreement hereafter
cronment Notic
ification No. mentioned shall within a period of two months
301 published from the date of such notification, signify respect
in Gazette Oth
July, 1889, ively in writing their acceptance of the portions of
infra .] the land assigned to them on the said plan and of
their intention to enter into an agreement,