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1154 [ 23 of 1889. ] CROWN LANDS RESUMPTION .

Notices by
board .
9. Every notice under the hand of the Chairman of the Board
may be substituted for and shall be equivalent to any form of
process capable of being issued in any suit or action for enforcing
the attendance of witnesses, or coinpelliny the production of
documents; and any warrant of committal to prison issued for
the purpose of enforcing any such powers as aforesaid shall be
under the band of the Chairman and shall not authorise the
imprisonment of any offender for a period exceeding three
months; and every notice order or warrant of the Board may
be served and executed in the same manner as notices orders
and warrants of the Supreme Court may be served and executed
under the procedure for the time being in force relating to civil
suits.
No appeal 10. If in the discharge of the duties devolving upon the
decision
frommajority.
of Board there shall occur a difference of opinion between the
members, the decision of any two of them shall bave the same
force and effect, as if all themembers bad concurred therein and
any decision arrived at by the Board or a majority thereof shall
not be subject to appeal and shall le final as regards all parties
interested and no award of compensation made with respect to
the resumption of any land shall be liable to be set aside for
irregularity or error in matter of form .
Vacancies on
board .
11. During the pendency of any proceedings before the Board
if any member of ihe Board shall from any cause be or become
unable to act, his place if he be a Judge shall be filled by another
Judge or if he be a person appointed by the Governor or owner
by some other person appointed by the Governor or owner as
the case may require.
Re-grant of 12. All lands resumed under the provisions of this ordinance
lands, &c.
may be demised and granted by the Governor upon such terms
and conditions and at such price whether by way of rent,
premium , or otherwise and either by public auction or private
contract as the Governor may determine.
Compensa 13. All sums of money awarded and all costs against the
tion to bear
interest. Crown ifit any shall as soon as practicable after the award is
published be paid by the Governor out of the public revenues,
and all sums awarded exclusive of costs shall bear interest at
the rate of eight dollars per cent. from the date of the resump
tion of the land until payment.
Notice of 14. In any notice to resume any land it shall be sufficient
resumption to to state that such land is required for a public purpose without
evidence of a stating the particular public purpose for which the land is
resumption
for a public required and a notice containing such statement shall be
purpose. couclusive evidence that the land resumed is resumed for a
public purpose .