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ORDINANCE No. 18 OF 1884. 1819


Piers and Wharves (Johnson's).


assigns, shall continue in force for twenty years to be computed from the
date of the proclamation thereof. Provided always that the Governor in
Council may, from time to time, so often as the Governor in Council shall

think it expedient, by order, to be published in the Gazette, declare that
the duration of such rights , powers , and privileges shall be extended for
any further term or terms not exceeding ten years at a time, and there
upon such rights, powers, and privileges shall continue in force for such
extended period .

19. Upon the cessation of the rights, powers, and privileges granted Cessation of
powers.
by this Ordinance, it shall be at the option of the Governor in Council
to purchase the wharves and piers and works by this Ordinance authorised
from the said FRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON, his executors , administrators ,

or assigns for a price which shall be exclusive of any allowance for past
or future profits of the undertaking, or any compensation for compulsory
sale, to be determined in case of difference by two arbitrators to be
nominated one by the Governor in Council, and the other by the said
FRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON, his executors , administrators, or assigns ;

and in case the said arbitrators cannot agree, by an umpire to be agreed
upon between them . If the Governor in Council does not exercise the
option to buy within one month of such cessation as aforesaid, the said
FRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON, his executors , administrators, and assigns
shall, at their own expense, remove the said wharves and piers and works,
and restore the site thereof to its former condition, and in the event of

their failure to do so within one year of the date of such cessation , it shall
be lawful for the Governor in Council to abate and remove the same,
and restore the site thereof to its former condition at the cost of the said

FRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON, his executors , administrators , or assigns ,
and the amount of such cost shall be a debt due to the Government, and
recoverable against the said FRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON, his executors,
administrators , or assigns accordingly.
20. Nothing in this Ordinance, otherwise than as specially enacted Saving of
rights.
herein , shall be construed to interfere in any way with any existing rights
in the land on which the said wharves or piers are to be constructed , or
the lands or foreshore adjoining the same, and the powers and privileges

given by this Ordinance are so given, saving and reserving always the
rights of Her Majesty , and of all bodies politic and corporate, and of all
other persons and those claiming by, from, and under them except as
herein otherwise provided .