Act No. 24 of 1944
PARADISE BEACH AND TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, LIMITED, REAL ESTATE |
An Act to
vest certain real estate in Paradise Beach and Transportation Company, Limited. | 24 of 1944 |
[Assent 31st July, 1944]
[Commencement 18th December, 1944] |
WHEREAS a certain
piece parcel or lot of land situate in the City of Nassau in the Island of New
Providence hereinafter particularly described in the First Schedule hereto is
vested in Paradise Beach and Transportation Company, Limited, subject to an
estate in remainder therein now vested in the Treasurer subject to the
disposition of the Legislature in accordance with the provisions of section 8
of the
Companies Act. |
AND WHEREAS a
certain piece parcel or tract of land situate on the Island of Hog Island (which
said Island lies immediately to the north of the said Island of New Providence)
hereinafter particularly described in the Second Schedule hereto is vested in
Paradise Beach and Transportation Company, Limited, subject to a possible
estate in remainder now vested in the Treasurer subject to the disposition of
the Legislature in accordance with the provision of section 8 of the Companies
Act. |
AND WHEREAS it is
desirable that the said piece parcel or lot of land situate in the said City of
Nassau and the said piece parcel or tract of land situate at the said Island of
Hog Island shall vest in Paradise Beach and Transportation Company, Limited, and
their assigns in fee simple. |
1. This Act
may be cited as the Paradise Beach and Transporation Company, Limited, Real
Estate Act. | Short title. |
2. From and
after the coming into operation of this Act the lands referred to and described
in the First and Second Schedules to this Act shall be and the same are hereby
vested in Paradise Beach and Transportation Company, Limited, and their assigns
in fee simple. | Vests certain lands in
Paradise Beach and Transportation Company, Limited. |
3. Nothing
in this Act shall prejudice or affect the rights of His Majesty the King, his
heirs and successors or of any body politic or corporate or of any person or
persons except such as are mentioned in this Act and those claiming by or
through or under them. | Saving. |
FIRST SCHEDULE |
All
that piece parcel or lot of land situate in the City of Nassau in the Island of
New Providence fronting to the west on George Street and bounded on the north
by land formerly the property of the late Samuel H. C. Rae but now the property
of Doctor Henry Mather Hare on the east by land lately the property of
Alexander Martin Cunningham deceased and now the property of Victory Hall
Corporation, Limited and on the south by land the property of the Incorporated
Trustees of the Church of England in the Bahamas the said piece parcel or lot
of land being more particularly described delineated and set out on the plan
attached to an indenture made the Twenty-sixth day of April, A.D., 1938 between
Hotel Nassau Company, Limited, of the one part and Paradise Beach and
Transportation Company, Limited, of the other part and now of recrod in the
Registry of Records in the City of Nassau in Book D 14 at pages 455 to 459. |
SECOND SCHEDULE |
All
that piece or tract of land situate on the Island of Hog Island (which said
Island lies immediately to the north of the said Island of New Providence) which
said piece parcel or tract of land is bounded on the north by the sea on the
east by a tract of land of one time reputed to belong to one John Kemp and now
the property of Paradise Beach and Transportation Company, Limited on the south
by the Harbour of Nassau and on the west by a tract of land known as "Saratoga"
formerly the property of Florida East Coast Hotel Company and now the property
of Arthur Vining Davis which said piece parcel or tract of land includes the
entire peninsular and rocky headland which extends north and west into the sea
the said piece parcel or tract of land being more particularly described
delineated and set forth in that part which is coloured pink on the plan
attached to an indenture made the twenty-sixth day of April, A.D., 1938 between
Hotel Nassau Company, Limited, of the one part and Paradise Beach and
Transportation Company, Limited, of the other part and now of record in the
Registry of Records in the said City of Nassau in Book D 14 at pages 459 to 466. |