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[Ord. 27 anno 1856.]

to extend or apply to certain matters and things

section.

No. XC.-XCI.

tioned, and the word writing used in this Ordinance shall mean any document wholly written or wholly printed, or partly written and partly printed.

16. Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall in any way affect Ordinance not the rights of the Crown or apply or extend to any right, title, or interest in or to lands or immoveable property, or to any servitude or easement, or to any mortgage, whether written, tacit, or legal, specified in the or to any Act of Verweezing, or to any definitive sentence, or to any bond, bill, note, or other evidence of debt, issued by any Bank corporation, or by or on behalf of the Colony, or to any claim now or hereafter to be filed against the proceeds of any estate in the Registry of the Supreme Court or under the administration of either Administrator-General in the Colony, or to any balance of any closed estate, or to any unclaimed dividend, now or hereafter to be deposited in the Colony Chest.

When Ordinance to take effect.

17. This Ordinance shall come into operation and take effect on the publication thereof.

No. XCI.

[Ord.30anno AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF ROADS, CANALS, AND BRIDGES.

1856.]

Preamble.

Enacted 23rd October, 1856, published the 26th November following, came into operation on publication.

P. E. WODEHOUSE, Governor.]

WHEREAS on the Fifteenth day of June, in the year 1855,

there were passed by the Governor and Court of Policy of British Guiana combined with the Financial Representatives of the Inhabitants of said Colony the following Resolutions, to wit: "That "this Court is of opinion that the existing Law compelling Proprietors of Estates to maintain the Public Road running through "their Estates, at their own cost, has become wholly unsuited to "the present constitution of society in this Colony." "That the "Governor

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"Governor and Court of Policy be respectfully requested to keep "in view the principle laid down in the preceding Resolution, and "to give effect to the same whenever they may be of opinion that "the circumstances of the Colony will admit of it. That in the "meantime the Court hopes that the Governor and Court of Policy "will legislate in such manner as will ensure the proper maintenance "of the Roads of the Colony" :-And whereas the circumstances of the Colony do not admit of the principle laid down in the aforesaid first Resolution being carried into execution at the present time; but it is expedient that more effectual provision should forthwith be made for the construction and maintenance of the Public Roads, Cauals, and Bridges of the Colony: Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of British Guiana, by and with the advice and consent of the Court of Policy thereof, as follows:

Ordinance.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Road Ordinance of Short title of 1856," and shall take effect on and from the date of the publication thereof.

vious Ordi.

2. The Ordinances No. 7, of the year 1844, No. 17, of the year Repeal of pre1845, and No. 12, of the year 1849, shall be and the same are hereby nances. repealed, save and except as to any act, matter or thing done or liability incurred, or any proceeding had or taken, or commenced, under them or any of them; but all proceedings so commenced shall be continued and carried on under the provisions of this Ordi.

nance.

3. The District Registrars and Sub-Registrars of Divisions, to District Regis. be from time to time appointed under the provisions of the Ordi- trars and Sub. Registrars nance No. 29, of the year 1856, shall be and act as Inspectors and under Ord. No. Sub-Inspectors of Roads and Bridges for the Districts and Divisions act as Inin which they may be employed under the provisions of the said spectors and

Ordinance.

29, of 1856, to

Sub-Inspectors of Roads and Bridges.

4. For the purposes of this Ordinance the following shall be Carriage taken to be Carriage Roads, that is to say :

In the Counties of Demerara and Essequebo.

No. 1. The road from the left Bank of Abary Creek to Georgetown.

Roads defined.

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No. 2. The road on the west bank of the Mahaica Creek to and inclusive of Plantation Cane Grove.

No. 3. The road on the east bank of the Demerara River, from Plantation La Penitence to Plantation Golden Grove both inclusive.

No. 4. The road on the north side of Canal No. 3 from the public
Bridge on Plantation Irovidence to and inclusive of
Plantation Haags Bosche,

No. 5. The road on the west bank of the Demerara River, from Plantation Vive la Force to Plantation Vreed-en-Hoop, both inclusive.

No. 6. The road on the south side of Canal No. 1 from the Bridge over the Canal next to the River to the west side line of Plantation Noitgedacht and the road on the north side of Canal No. 1 from the same Bridge to and inclusive of Plantation Endeavour.

No. 7. The road from Plantation Best to Plantation Greenwich,
Park, both inclusive.

No. 8. The public roads of the Islands of Leguan and Wakenaam. Leguan-from and inclusive of Plantation Vrouw Anna on the windward side round the Island to and inclusive of Plantation Osterbeck on the leeward side. Wakenaam on the windward side from Plantation Moor Farm to Plantation Concordia, both inclusive, and on the west side from the Steamboat Stelling to and inclusive of Plantation Zeelandia.

No. 9. The road from Planta'ion Spring Garden to Plantation
Walton Hall, both inclusive.

In the County of Berbice.

No. 10. The road from the right bank of the Abary to the Ferry

at Blairmont.

No. 11.

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No. 11. The road from Blairmont Ferry to and inclusive of
Plantation Standvastigheid.

No. 12. The road on the right bank of the Berbice River to and inclusive of Plantation Highbury.

No. 13. The roads on both banks of the Canje Creek, on the east
bank, to and inclusive of Plantation New Forest, and

on the west bank to and inclusive of Plantation
Philadelphia.

No. 14. The road from the bridge over the Canje Creek to and inclusive of Lot No. 50 on the Corentyne Coast.

And the following shall be taken to be Bridle Roads, that is to say :- Bridle Roads

defined.

No. 1. The road on each bank of Mahaicony Creek.

No. 2. The road from the southern boundary of Plantation Golden
Grove as far as the road extends.

No. 3. The road on the south side of Canal No. 3, from Plantation Arcadia to Plantation Woerden, both inclusive.

No. 4. The road on the south side of Canal No. 1, from Plantation Noitgedacht to Plantation Studley Park, both inclusive.

No. 5. The road on the north side of Canal No. 2, from the bridge over the Canal next to the River to and inclusive of Plantation Middlesex.

No. 6. The road from the southern boundary of Plantation Vive la Force as far as the road extends.

No. 7. The road from the southern boundary of Plantation
Greenwich Park as far as the road extends.

No. 8. The road from Plantation Endeavour to Plantation Hoopen- Vries, both inclusive.

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Court of Policy

limit lines of Road.

No. 9. The road from Plantation Spring Garden to the church on Plantation Good Hope.

No. 10. The road from the northern boundary of Plantation
Walton Hall as far as the road extends.

5. The Governor, with the advice and consent of the Court of Governor and Policy, may from time to time, by Proclamation to be published may extend or in the Official Gazette, extend or limit any of the lines of road herein before enumerated, and declare the same to be carriage roads or bridle roads, as the said Governor, with the advice and consent aforesaid, shall see fit, and thereupon all the provisions of this Ordinance shall apply to such extended roads and any bridges required in the lines thereof respectively, in the same manner as if the same had been enumerated herein.

No deviation exceeding 25 Roods from existing lines of Road per

mitted except

with sanction of Governor

6. No deviation exceeding twenty-five roods from the existing lines of roads shall be permitted, except with the sanction of the Governor and the Court of Policy, and when any deviation shall be made with or without such sanction, the said Governor and Court of Policy may declare the new line of such road to be a carriage road or a bridle road, as the case may be, and such new line of road shall and Court of thereupon be subject to the like rules and regulations in respect to the repair and maintenance thereof as are hereinafter enacted with respec to existing roads; and in every case of such deviation the proprietor of the estate of which the road shall be changed shall be liable to maintain the road along the company path of said line, connecting the new road with the old road, or with the adjoining estate or estates.

Policy.

7. Whenever the proprietor of any estate shall be desirous of Proceedings altering the line of road through such estate to an extent exceeding viation exceed. twenty-five rools, a statement of the reasons for such alteration, ing 25 rouds is accompanied by a correct diagram or sketch of the locality, in du

where a de

desired.

plicate, shewing the existing or former as well as the proposed new line of road, shall be submitted to the said Governor and Court of Policy, who shall make such order thereon as the case may require. And whenever it shall appear to the District Inspector that any road is or is likely to become unsafe and that the line thereof should be altered, it shall be lawful for the Governor and the Court of Policy to

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