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ACQUISITION OF LAND (AIR FIELDS) [IV – 97 ACQUISITION OF LAND (AIR FIELDS) Act No.

7 of 1944 ACQUISITION OF LAND (AIR FIELDS) An Act to make provision for the acquisition of certain lands for the construction of aerodromes and other works required by his majesty.
7 of 1944 2 of 1950 32 of 1954 6 of 1957 [Commencement 29th June, 1944] WHEREAS it is provided by section 2 of the Acquisition of Land Act, in this Act referred to as the principal Act, the expression “public purpose” includes any purpose authorised by the legislature: that 1.

This Act may be cited as the Acquisition of Land Short title.

(Air Fields) Act.

2.


The acquisition under the principal Act by the Governor in Council of the land described in the Schedule to this Act for the construction or maintenance of aerodromes and other works required by His Majesty is hereby authorised and shall be deemed to be a public purpose within the meaning of the principal Act.

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Notwithstanding the provisions of section 6 of the principal Act, any notice published and posted or which shall be published and posted in relation to lands hereby authorised to be acquired shall be deemed to have been or to be published and posted in accordance with the provisions of the said section although the compensation paid or to be paid for the said lands shall be provided by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Notwithstanding the provisions of section 37 of the principal Act if the Governor in Council is satisfied that compensation for the acquisition of the lands described in the fourth paragraph of the Schedule to this Act has been or will be paid out of funds provided by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the Air Council established under the authority of the Air Force (Constitution) Act 1917, enacted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, may request the Governor in Council to convey such lands in fee simple to any person authorised by law to hold such lands on behalf of the Air Council, and it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to convey such lands accordingly.
Amendment of section 2 of Ch.

252.

Interpretation of section 6 of Ch.

252.

Compensation, etc., for lands acquired.

32 of 1954, s. 2 6 of 1957, s. 2 7 & 8 Geo.

5. c. 51.

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SCHEDULE (Section 2) All that area situate in the Western District of the Island of New Providence, the boundaries of which commence at a point on the West side of the Oakes Field Road, 50 feet in a direction N 80° 07’ 40” W (true) from a concrete pillar or monument situate on the East side of the Oakes Field Road at a point approximately 525 feet South of the intersection of Meadows and Nassau Streets, and extend thence N 80° 07’ 40” W (true) 678.74 feet thence S 56° 26’ 20” W (true) 307.58 feet thence S 28° 52’ 20” W (time) 239.30 feet thence S 9° 16’ 50” W (true) 498.94 feet thence S 33° 50’ 50” W (true) 427.08 feet thence S 34° 05’ 50” W (true) 205.52 feet thence S 52° 45’ 50” W (true) 399.57 feet thence S 31° 25’ 50” W (true) 91.00 feet to the centre of a gate on the Southern side of the Farrington Road which gate is parallel to, and 20.00 feet from the centre line of the said Farrington Road, thence along the Eastern and Southern sides of the original Farrington Road to a point marked by a concrete monument or pillar, situate about 940 feet east of the intersection of the Farrington Road and the centre line of the Gladstone or Lake Road, thence S 0° 04’ E (true) 1914.00 feet to a point on the Eastern side of the Pipe Line Road approximately 383 feet North of its intersection with the Adderley Road, thence along the Eastern side of the Pipe Line Road-crossing the Adderley Road-to the junction of the said Pipe Line Road with the Harold Road thence along the Eastern and Northern sides of the Harold Road to its junction with the Blue Hill Road thence Northwardly along the Western side of the Blue Hill Road to a point about 450 feet North of the Lemon Hill or Tucker Road thence N 78° 32’ S0” W (true) 773.67 feet thence N 7° 03 10” E (true) 411.11 feet thence N 10° 42’ 55” E (true) 88.60 feet thence N 79° 04’ 25” W (true) 230.87 feet thence N 31° 56’ 35” E (true) 472.74 feet thence N 58° 03’ 25” W (true) 1635.15 feet to the Eastern side of the Oakes Field Road, thence N 21° 34’ 05” E (true) 107.00 feet along the
 Eastern side of the Oakes Field Road thence N 68° 25’ 55” W (true) 50 feet across the Oakes Field Road, thence N 21° 15’ 05” E (true) 432.28 feet and N 12° 39’ 05” E (true) 460.00 feet along the Western side of the Oakes Field Road to the point of commencement.
All that tract of land containing about 2,070 acres and situate about one-half (½) mile south of the 9th Mile Post on West Bay Street in the Western District of the Island of New Providence beginning at an iron pipe, marking the southeast corner of a tract of land owned by G. R. B. Baxter and known as Orange Hill, thence 2,310.90 feet along the north-western edge of a locally called Burma Road to a point, thence.
S 5° 03’ 00”..........................................................E467.90 feet S 1° 34’ 00”........................................................E1558.10 feet S 34° 53’ 00”.......................................................W750.55 feet to a post planted in the water of Lake Killarney, thence, S 3° 35’ 00”...................................................... W5650.00 feet STATUTE LAW OF THE BAHAMAS [Original Service 2001] ACQUISITION OF LAND (AIR FIELDS) [IV – 99 S 81° 55’ 00”......................................................E1602.35 feet to another post planted in the water of Lake Killarney, thence, S 44° 40’ 30”.....................................................W4066.30 feet N 45° 19’ 30” ....................................................W2229.49 feet S 89° 39’ 30”.....................................................W7508.81 feet N 9° 02’ 00” ......................................................W2315.20 feet N 28° 30’ 00” .....................................................E1253.47 feet N 50° 0’ 00” .......................................................E3471.58 feet N 51° 30’ 45” ............................................................E565 feet N 68° 17’ 45” .....................................................E2822.75 feet N 87° 39’ 30” ....................................................W4866.84 feet N 7° 09’ 30” .......................................................E1205.40 feet N 87° 30’ 00” .......................................................E848.40 feet S 5° 28’ 20”.............................................................E1200 feet to the point of beginning.
The said tract of land being bounded on the north by lands of The Caves Company Limited, E. V. Jaeger, the said G. R. B. Baxter, Bahamas Land and Finance Company-the said G. R. B. Baxter and the said Caves Company Limited-on the east by the said land of the Caves Company Limited, Lake Killarney, the property of the Crown, and land of the said Caves Company Limited, on the south by Crown land and by land of the said Caves Company Limited, and on the west by land of the said Caves Company Limited.
AND ALSO All That tract comprising two lots of land situate on the south side of the Island of New Providence and being a portion of Clifton Estate and containing in all Five and fifty-seven one-hundredths acres, the said tract of land being separated by an existing public road thirty feet wide and being bounded north- eastwardly by land the property of Nassoak Limited and running thereon four hundred feet southeastwardly by Crown Land and running thereon a total of six hundred and forty-six feet south- westwardly by the sea and running thereon three hundred and ninetysix feet and northwestwardly by land the property of Caves Company Limited and running thereon a total of six hundred and thirty feet.
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