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BRITISH GUIANA ORDER IN COUNCIL THE ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES ORDINANCE, MADE UNDER (Chapter 179).

WHEREAS by Order in Council ber, 1960, the proposed sluice public Ordinan�; on the land described work under section construction in the schedule No.
82 of 1960 made on the 10th Septem­ of a canal with dams on both sides and a to be a to this Order was declared 3 of the Acquisition of Lands for Public Purposes AND WHEREAS by the said Order in Council the Director or workmen was authorised u_nder to enter upon the said.
such land with a view to the acquisition land for the purpose of Drainage and section 4 of survey­ of the whole with his agents Irrigation together 9f the Ordinance aforesaid ing or otherwise examining or a part thereof for the construction AND WHEREAS that part qf section of the public work aforesaid; a plan of the land to be aoquired 6 of the Ordinance before aforesaid which the Governor provides in Council for the laying of has been complied with: Ordinance aforesaid, to this Order is required NOW, THEREFORE, in accordance it is hereby with the provisions that the land described declared of section 6 of the in the schedule for the public This Order may be cited as the Acquisition work aforesaid.
of Lands for Public Purposes (Land of Canaan) Order, 1961.
SCHEDULE A tract of land being part of Plantation Land of Canaan situate on the right bank of the Demerara River, Guiana the boundaries of which shall be as follows:- Commencing at a point along the centre in the County of Demerara line of the Public Roadway distant and the Colony of British and proceeding along River, a distance River for 596 ft. north of the northern edge of the McLeod trench a line S. 86° 42' W. to the right bank of the Demerara aforesaid right bank of the Demerara along a line N. 86° 42' E. to a point situated the Public Roadway and on the eastern thence N.86° 42' E._to the western said western a line S. 86° 42' E. for a distance for a distance commencement.
along a line S. 2 ° 45' E. for a distance toe of the conservancy toe of the conservancy of 55 ft. thence side of the aforesaid of 55 ft. thence dam, thence dam for a distance of_ 7162 ft. thence along along a line S. 86° 42' W. back to the point of of 319.4 ft. thence a line S. 2° 45' E. along the afore­ along 245 ft. from the centre line of thence along the along a line of 415 feet thence Public Roadway, Made in Council this 11th day of May, 1961.

(M.P.

D.I.

33/1/3/1 III).

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A. ABRAHAM, Clerk to the Executive Council.