231 Abutments

• Author: Ralph Hone
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CHAPTER 231.

ABUTMENTS.

AN ACT TO IMPROVE THE HARBOUR OF NASSAU AND TO AFFORD GREATER FACILITIES FOR REPAIRING VESSELS THAT HAVE SUSTAINED DAMAGE AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

[30th March 1864.] 1. This Act may be cited as The Abutments Act.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires'Minister' means the Minister appointed under section 3 of The Public Works Act.

3. The proprietors of the several lots of land fronting northwardly on Bay Street, in the City of Nassau, and situate between Parliament Street to the east, and Fleming Square to the west, shall have, and they are hereby respectively invested with, full power and authority to build out the abutments now lying in front of their respective lots into the Harbour of Nassau to such an extent as will bring the northern boundary of such abutments in a line with the northern boundary of the main public abutment.

4. Upon the completion of any abutment under the authority of section 3 of this Act, the same shall be inspected by the Director of Public Works, and if that officer shall find that the same has been properly built in the line by this Act designated, and is securely faced at the northern extremity and at all other portions thereof which abut in any way on the Harbour of Nassau, with blocks of stone of adequate size and quality, it shall be the duty of such officer to grant a certificate thereof under his hand, signed in the presence of one or more credible witness or witnesses, and upon such certificate being recorded in the Registry of Records, the entire lot, including as well the original portions as that extended under the provisions of this Act, shall be and become freehold...