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GENERAL PIER AND HARBOUR ACT 1861 - SECT 20

Power to Secretary of State for War to accept a grant of land, &c. for batteries, &c.

20. It shall be lawful for the promoters of any harbour constructed under the
provisions of this or any other Act, whether local or otherwise, to make, and
for Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the War Department to
accept, a grant either in fee or for a term of years not less than nine
hundred and ninety-nine years of any lands, tenements, and hereditaments
proper for sites for batteries or fortifications, not exceeding in quantity in
any one place what may be sufficient for building and erecting thereon a
battery or fortification for the protection of such harbour, and for making a
proper or sufficient access or approach thereto, and to enter into any
covenant or stipulation with the said Principal Secretary of State and his
successors not to build or do any act prejudicial to the said batteries or
fortifications on the land adjacent to the sites so granted as aforesaid,
within the line of fire from such batteries or fortifications to be erected
thereon; and which sites when conveyed as aforesaid shall be held by the said
Principal Secretary and his successors on behalf of Her Majesty.




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