ACTS

OF THE

PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

OF

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

PASSED IN THE SESSIONS HELD IN THE

49TH AND 50TH YEARS OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY,

QUEEN VICTORIA,

BEING THE FIRST SESSION OF THE TWENTY-THIRD AND THE FIRST SESSION
OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH PARLIAMENTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.

OTTAWA:

PRINTED BY BROWN CHAMBERLIN,

LAW PRINTER (FOR CANADA) TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. ANNO DOMINI, 1887.

L11217

EB 6 1936

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49 VICTORIA.

CHAP. 13.

An Act to provide for the transfer to the Dominion of Canada of the lighthouse at Cape Race, Newfoundland, and its appurtenances, and for other purposes connected there with.

[10th May, 1886.]

WHEREAS with the consent of the legislative authority

of the colony of Newfoundland a lighthouse was erected in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six at Cape Race, in that colony, and a fog signal and dwellings, buildings, pond, apparatus and other appurtenances have been constructed there, and certain rights of water and other rights and the land described in the schedule to this Act, containing about three hundred acres, have been used and enjoyed in connection with such lighthouse, and the cost incurred in respect of such lighthouse and the other matters aforesaid was paid out of the consolidated fund of the United Kingdom; and whereas in pursuance of an Order in Council made under the Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1885, 18-19 V., c. 91. dues have been levied in respect of the said lighthouse, and such dues have been applied under the direction of the Board of Trade in maintaining the lighthouse and its appurtenances and in repaying to the consolidated fund the cost incurred in respect thereof; and whereas the whole of the said cost has been so repaid, and there remains a balance arising from the said dues, and it is estimated that such balance will, on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighty six, amount to twenty thousand pounds or thereabouts; and whereas in pursuance of an Order in Council made under the recited Act on the twelfth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty five, the dues leviable in respect of the said lighthouse will, on and after the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, cease to be levied; and whereas the Government of the colony of Newfoundland have declined to undertake the maintenance of the said lighthouse; and whereas the Government of the Dominion VOL. I-A