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PUBLIC HARBOURS ACT 1806 - LONG TITLE



An Act for the Preservation of the Publick Harbours of the United Kingdom.{1}
[23rd July 1806] No person shall erect any pier, &c. in any publick harbour,
&c. without giving one month's notice to the Admiralty; under penalty of #200.

WHEREAS the preservation of the publick harbours of the United Kingdom is of
great importance to the commerce and security thereof: from and after the
passing of this Act it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to make,
construct, or erect any pier, quay, wharf, jetty, breast, or embankment in or
adjoining to any publick harbour in the United Kingdom, or any river
immediately communicating therewith, so far as the tide flows up the same,
without giving at least one month's previous notice of his, her, or their
intention so to do to the secretary of the Admiralty, who is to lay the same
before the lord high admiral or lords commissioners of the Admiralty for the
time being, the receipt of which notice the said secretary is hereby required
duly to acknowledge; upon pain that every person or persons offending shall
forfeit and pay the sum of two hundred pounds, to be recovered by action, or
information, ....




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