kept should be hereafter maintained and kept in some locality more 27 Vic. c. 33. retired, but equally central; And whereas an eligible building, for the purposes of a boys' school under the jurisdiction of the Board of Education, can now be had in the Wesleyan Chapel, fronting on Nassau-court, in the City of Nassau, which is offered for sale by the trustees of such building; May it, &c. :

Board of

I. That it shall be lawful for the Board of Public Works to Authorizes purchase the said Wesleyan Chapel, with the lot of land on which Works to it stands, for the purposes of a boys' central school, and to accept purchase and take a conveyance of the said lot of land and premises from Wesleyan such person or persons as may be authorized to make the same in Chapel for a trust for the purposes of this Act. Boys' Central School. II. That there shall be paid out of the Public Treasury, by Grants £700 warrant, in the usual manner, to the Board of Public Works, to for the purenable the said Board to purchase the premises aforesaid, such sum chase, and of money, not exceeding the sum of seven hundred pounds, as may £300 for rebe agreed on as the purchase-money therefor, and the further sum pairing the of three hundred pounds, to enable the said Board to make the said Wesleyan necessary repairs to the said building, and for fitting the said building internally as a school-house.

III. That the building now known and used as a boys' central school shall hereafter be put to such public uses as may be determined upon by the Governor in Council.

Chapel.

Boys' Central
School to be

put to such
public uses as
Governor in
Council may
determine.

28 Vic. c. 13. An Act for vesting certain Lands and Hereditaments, occupied for the Public Service, in the Board of Public Works, and for granting certain Powers to the

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said Board. (Assented to 28th March, 1865.)

HEREAS divers messuages, lands, tenements, estates, and PREAMBLE. other hereditaments, in the Bahama Islands, have been at various times purchased for the use of the Colony, and have been conveyed to several different persons, in trust for the public or otherwise; And whereas it is expedient that all and every the said lands, tenements, estates, and other hereditaments, so already purchased and used, and occupied by, or for the service of the Colony, and all other messuages, lands, tenements, estates, and other hereditaments that may be hereafter purchased, or in any manner used and occupied by or for the public service of the Colony, should be vested in the Board of Public Works, for the time being; May it, &c.:

ments, estates,

I. That immediately from and after the passing of this Act, all All messuages, messuages, lands, roads, streets, tenements, estates, and other lands, roads, hereditaments, which have been heretofore purchased, or taken by, streets, teneor in the name of, or by any person or persons, in trust, for the and other use of the public service of the Colony, or which have been used hereditaments or occupied for such service (by whatever mode of conveyance the held in trust same shall have been so purchased or taken), either in fee, or for for the public any life or lives, or for any term or terms of years, or any other service to be or lesser interest; And all erections and buildings which now are, members of or which shall, or may hereafter be erected and built thereon, the Board of together with the rights, members, easements, and appurtenances Public Works

vested in the

and their successors.

28 Vic. c. 13. to the same respectively belonging (save and except such lands not being public burial grounds, as have been purchased, or are now used for ecclesiastical purposes, and the buildings thereon erected), shall be and become, and remain and continue vested in the members of the Board of Public Works for the time being; and their successors, according to the respective nature and quality of the said messuages, lands, tenements, estates, and other hereditaments, and the several estates and interest of, and in the same hereditaments, respectively, in trust for the public service of the Colony, subject to the disposition of the legislature of the Colony.

Any property purchased on account of the public shall in future be

vested as afore

said.

Should any member of

the present or future Board of Works cease to be

such all public property shall

vest in his
successor.

Members may
bring actions
of ejectment,
or prosecute in
the name of

their clerk for

trespass.

Designation

II. From and after the purchase and conveyance grant, or demise thereof, all other messuages, lands, roads, streets, tenements, estates, and other hereditaments, which shall, at any time or times hereafter, be purchased for the use of the Colony; and all erections and buildings, which shall then, and which may hereafter be erected and built thereon, with the rights, members, easements, and appurtenances to the same, respectively belonging, by whatever mode of conveyance the same shall be purchased or taken (except as hereinbefore excepted), shall in like manner be, and become and remain, and continue vested in the members of the Board of Public Works for the time being, according to the nature and quality of the said messuages, lands, tenements, estates, and other hereditaments, and the several and respective estates and interests of and in the same respectively in trust, as aforesaid.

III. Upon the present members of the Board of Public Works, or any of them, or any future member or members, ceasing to be members of the said Board, all such messuages, lands, tenements, estates, and other hereditaments respectively, shall become vested in and be held by the succeeding members of the said Board, according to the respective nature and quality of the said messuages, lands, tenements, estates, and other hereditaments, and the several estates and interests of and in the same respectively, in trust as aforesaid.

IV. It shall be lawful for the members of the said Board of Public Works for the time being, and they are respectively hereby authorized and empowered to bring, prosecute, and maintain any action or actions of ejectment, or other proceeding at law, or in equity in any Court within these Islands, of competent jurisdiction, for recovering possession of any messuages, lands, tenements, estates, or other hereditaments, by this Act vested in them as aforesaid; and also, to institute, prosecute, and maintain any other proceeding, action, or suit in respect of, or in relation to the said messuages, lands, tenements, estates, and other hereditaments, or of any trespass or encroachment committed thereon, or damage or injury done thereto; and all such proceedings, actions, and suits, shall be commenced and prosecuted in the name of the Clerk of the Board for the time being; and no such proceeding, action or suit, shall abate, or be in any manner delayed, by the death or vacation of office of the Clerk in whose name the same was originally instituted, but shall be continued in the name of the Clerk for the time being.

V. In all contracts, conveyances, surrenders, leases, and other of the members deeds and instruments whatsoever, relating to the public service

of the Colony, which shall hereafter be made or entered into, 28 Vic. c. 13. by, to, or with the Board of Public Works for the time being,

or whereunto the members of the said Board, or any of them, of Board of shall be parties or a party, it shall be sufficient to describe or Works in designate the members of the said Board, by the style or title of contracts, &c. "The Board of Public Works," without naming them, or any or either of them.

made, which effect of law,

will have the

when approved by Governor in

VI. The said Board of Public Works are hereby authorized Rules to be and empowered, from time to time, to make and enact all needful and necessary rules for preventing trespasses or encroachments on, or misuser of any of the lands or premises by this Act vested in the said Board, and to impose penalties for the violation of any such rules; Provided, that no rule so made, shall have any force Council. or effect, until the same have been approved of by the Governor in Council, and has been published in three successive numbers of the public newspapers of the Colony for the time being.

28 Vic. c. 25. An Act to authorize the Sale of the Royal Victoria Hotel, in the Island of New Providence. (Assented to 3rd May, 1865.)

WHEREAS the object for which the Royal Victoria Hotel, PREAMBLE.

in the Island of New Providence, was erected, has been successfully carried out by the Colonial Government, and the said hotel is now well established; And whereas it is expedient that it should no longer be public property, or subject to Government control; May it, &c. :

I. It shall be lawful for the Governor, acting by and with the advice of the Executive Council, and he is hereby authorized and required to cause the Royal Victoria Hotel with the lands thereto attached, and all and singular the appurtenances thereto belonging, to be sold and disposed of for the highest price that can be obtained for the same; Provided, that no such sale shall be made until notice of the intended disposal of the property shall have been advertised in the different newspapers published in Nassau, and in such newspapers in the principal cities of the United Kingdom, and in the United States of America, as may be selected for the purpose by the Governor in Council, for at least six months; And provided also, that the price to be accepted for the entire property shall not be less than ten thousand pounds.

Governor in Council empowered to sell Hotel, after advertising the

same.

II. Such sale shall be made by public auction, by the Governor Sale of Hotel in Council, and when and as soon as the same shall be effected, it to be at public shall be incumbent on the trustees to whom the legal estate in the auction. said property is vested, to convey the same and the fee simple

thereof to the purchaser or purchasers.

III. The said hotel premises shall be sold subject to the Hotel to be existing lease; that is to say, the purchaser or purchasers shall sold subject to stand and be in the place and stead of the now Commissioners, who existing lease. shall thereupon assign all right and interest they may then have therein unto and to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, and the said hotel and premises shall also be sold on condition that

28 Vic. c.25. they shall not be used for any other purpose than that of a public

Terms on which Hotel may be sold.

Proceeds of

sale to be paid into Treasury.

hotel.

IV. The parties hereby authorized to sell and dispose of the said premises may do so either entirely for cash, or allow a term of not exceeding five years for the payment of one-half the purchase money, taking a mortgage therefor upon the said premises, upon such terms as may be agreed upon, provided that the amount of such mortgage shall bear interest until paid, at the rate of six pounds per centum per annum.

V. All monies received in payment for the purchase of the said hotel shall be paid into the Public Treasury, in aid of the general revenue of the Colony.

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Authority to erect Sunscreens.

The erection of

Sun-screens to

be sanctioned by Board of Works.

Any officer under the

Board of Works

28 Vic. c. 33. An Act to amend the Act of Assembly, 19 Vic. c. 11, entitled An Act for the better Regulation of Public Works, and for the Care and Custody of Public Buildings. (Assented to 3rd May, 1865.)

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HEREAS the Board of Public Works was empowered by the Act of Assembly, 27 Vic. c. 5, to widen a portion of Bay-street, in the city of Nassau, and to sanction the erection of buildings on the abutments in front of certain lots of land in the said street, and it is expedient to grant to the said Board further powers; May it, &c.:

I. The owners or occupiers of the several shops in Bay-street may, from time to time, erect and place, or cause to be erected or placed, opposite to the said shops, sun-screens, supported by iron columns of uniform height, size and pattern, such columns to be placed one foot inwards from the outer edge of the curb-stone; the style and pattern of such columns to be selected by the Board of Public Works.

II. The erection of the said sun-screens and columns shall be subject to the following regulations, that is to say: it shall not be lawful to erect any screen or column without the sanction of the Board of Public Works first had and obtained, and testified in writing under the hand of the Chairman of the said Board, for the time being; and if any person shall erect, or commence to erect, any sun-screen or column, without having first obtained the sanction aforesaid; or, if any person having obtained such sanction, shall erect, or attempt to erect, a screen or column, differing in any respect from what was sanctioned by the said Board, or shall erect any column or sun-screen in any other place than that sanctioned as aforesaid, the said Board shall, as soon as the same shall become known to them, give notice thereof, in writing, to any person acting in contravention of this section, and ordering the nuisance to be abated within four and twenty hours, and if it shall not be so abated, then it shall be lawful for the said Board of Works to abate the same by their servants and workmen, and to recover all expenses incurred thereby by action at law.

III. It shall be the duty of the civil engineer, and all persons in his department, who may receive pay out of the Public Treasury, and of all persons, over whom the said Board of Public Works has

any control, to report to the said Board in such manner as the 28 Vic. c. 33. said Board may require, as soon as it shall come to his or their knowledge, any violation of the provisions of this Act, and of the must report Act to which it is an amendment. infringements

IV. The Board of Public Works is hereby authorized and of this Act. required to contract for the due cleansing of the several drains of Board of Works the city and suburbs of Nassau, to such extent eastwardly and to contract for westwardly as the said Board may define, and for removing the cleaning drains and removing débris or filth which may, from time to time, accumulate in any débris. such drains, for flushing the same with sea water, as may be requisite, and for the proper care of and attendance to the flood-gate of such drains, agreeable to any specification which the said Board may authorize to be attached to any contract made under the authority of this clause; Provided, that the total amount placed at the disposal of the said Board of Public Works, for the above-mentioned purposes, shall not exceed three hundred pounds.

V. It shall be lawful for the Board of Public Works to make Rules to be rules for the cleansing and keeping clean of the footpaths in the made by Board public streets in the city of Nassau, by the proprietors or occupiers of Works, for having footof the premises adjacent thereto, in the like manner as that Board paths kept is authorized under the 14th section of the 19 Vic. c. 11, in respect clean. to the deposit of the substances therein mentioned, and with the like force, effect and remedy, as in such 14th section and in the 15th section of the said Act is expressed and given.

29 Vic. c. 33. An Act to authorize the Appropriation of a part of the Land purchased for the purposes of the new Prison to the use of the Agricultural Society. (Assented to 11th May, 1866.)

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HEREAS the land which has been purchased as a site for PREAMBLE. the new prison in the Island of New Providence is more extensive than is required for the purposes of the said prison, and a portion thereof might, without detriment to the object for which it was originally purchased, be transferred to the Agricultural Society, for the purpose of being formed into a garden; May it, &c.:

I. That it shall be lawful for the Commissioners appointed Part of prison under the 24th Vic. c. 26, and they are hereby required, on requi- lot conveyed to sition for that purpose being made by the Governor, to convey such Agricultural portion of the northern part of the said land as is not required for Society. the purposes of the said prison to the Agricultural Society, to be converted by that society into an agricultural garden.