Act No. 21 of 1956
CHILDREN'S HOME |
An Act to
provide a site for a children's home. | 21 of 1956 |
[Commencement 17th
May, 1956] |
WHEREAS The
Dundas Civic Centre, an association incorporated under the laws of The Bahamas,
is seised in fee simple of the hereditaments described in the Schedule hereto. |
AND WHEREAS The
Children's Home, an association incorporated under the laws of The Bahamas, desires
to purchase the said hereditaments at the price of four thousand pounds for the
purpose of establishing a home for children in accordance with its Memorandum
of Association. |
AND WHEREAS The
Dundas Civic Centre desires to sell the said hereditaments to The Children's
Home at the price of four thousand pounds but by the terms of its Memorandum of
Association is not empowered to sell the same. |
AND WHEREAS, in
order to facilitate the sale of the said hereditaments, it is necessary to
empower The Dundas Civic Centre to sell the said hereditaments to The Children's
Home. |
1. This Act
may be cited as The Children's Home Act. | Short title. |
2. Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in its Memorandum of Association, The Dundas
Civic Centre shall, from and after the date of the coming into operation of
this Act, have power to sell and convey the full legal estate of and in the
hereditaments described in the Schedule to this Act to The Children's Home in
fee simple free from encumbrances in consideration of the payment to The Dundas
Civic Centre of the sum of four thousand pounds. | The Dundas Civic Centre
empowered to sell and convey certain hereditaments. |
SCHEDULE |
ALL
THAT parcel of land containing Three and Forty Hundredths (3.40) acres being
part of a parcel of land the property of The Dundas Civic Centre situate in the
Eastern District of the Island of New Providence and bounded Westwardly by
Mackey Street and running thereon Two Hundred and Forty-five and Fifty
Hundredths (245.50) feet Northwardly partly by land formerly the property of
Thomas Clarke but now in the possession of Bertram Whitfield and others and
partly by land formerly the property of J. O. Johnson but now the property of
Englerston Limited and running thereon jointly Eight Hundred and Thirty-nine (839.00)
feet Eastwardly by land formerly the property of F. B. Emerson but now the
property of Theodore Roosevelt Pyfrom and Sidney Campbell Pyfrom and running
thereon One Hundred and Fourteen and Forty Hundredths (114.40) feet and
Southwardly by other land the property of The Dundas Civic Centre and running
thereon Eight Hundred and Twenty-three and Seventy Hundredths (823.70) feet. |