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VIII. That all such Parts of Her Majesty's Dockyard at Devon- chase of Fee port the Fee Simple of which may be purchased under or by virtue Simple of of the Provisions of this Act, shall from and after the Completion of Parts of any such Purchase or Purchases be always thereafter used for One Devonport 5 or for part of One of Her Majesty's Dockyards, and for Buildings, same shall Erections, and other Works necessary for the same and for no other Purpose whatsoever.

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IX. That the Piece or Parcel of Land or Ground described in the Second Schedule to this Act shall for ever hereafter be and be used 10 as a public Highway or Footway or Part of a public Highway or Footway, and for no other Purpose, and no Building or Erection whatsoever shall ever be constructed or commenced thereon or on Footway. any Part thereof.

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X. If any Omission, Mis-statement, or wrong Description shall Errors and 15 have been made of any Lands, or of the Owners, Lessees, or Occupiers in Book of of any Lands referred to in the said Book of Reference or mentioned Reference in the Schedules to this Act annexed, or either of them, the Commis- dules may be sioners of the Admiralty, after giving Tn Days Notice to the Owners, corrected by Lessees, and Occupiers of the Lands affected by such proposed Cor- who may 20 rection, may apply to Two Justices for the Correction thereof, and if certify the it shall appear to such Justices that such Omission, Mis-statement, or wrong Description arose from Mistake, they shall certify the same accordingly, and they shall in such Certificate state the Particulars of any such Omission, Mis-statement, or wrong Description, and such Certificate 25 Certificate shall be deposited with the said Clerk of the Peace, and to be deposuch Certificate shall be kept by such Clerk of the Peace with the other Documents to which it relates, and thereupon such Book of Reference, Schedules or Schedule shall be deemed to be corrected according to such Certificate, and the said Commissioners may take 30 any Lands in accordance with such Certificate as if such Omission, Mis-statement, or wrong Description had not been made.

XI. The Powers of the Commissioners of the Admiralty for the compulsory Purchase or taking of Lands for the Purposes of this Act shall not be exercised after the Expiration of Three Years from the 35 passing of this Act.

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XII. The Powers and Authorities by this Act given to the Commissioners of the Admiralty relative to the Lands mentioned and to Commis. comprised in the said Book of Reference and in the Schedules to this apply to PurAct annexed, or either of them, shall be applicable as well to any of chases made 40 such Lands already purchased or taken, or agreed to be purchased those t› be or taken, as to such as shall hereafter be purchased or taken under the made. Provisions of this Act.

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XIII. The Lands which shall be purchased, taken, or acquired b the Commissioners of the Admiralty for the Purposes of this Act or under the Provisions of this Act, or which may have been purchased or been agreed to be purchased as aforesaid, shall be vested in the said Commissioners, their Successors in Office, and Assigns, in trust 5 for Her Majesty Her Heirs and Successors, for the public Service, and no other Commissioners nor any Trustees nor other Persons shall after such Purchase, taking, or acquiring as aforesaid lay down or construct any Road or Way or any Pipe for Gas, Water, or otherwise, or any Drain, Sewer, or Watercourse in, under, through or over the 10 said Lands, or interfere in any Manner therewith, except with the previous Consent of the Commissioners of the Admiralty signified by Writing under the Hand of the Secretary of the Admiralty.

XIV. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners of the Admiralty to sell, exchange, or in any Manner dispose of or to let or demise all 15 or any of the Lands purchased, taken, or acquired by or vested in them under the authority of this Act with their respective Appurtenances (save and except the Property mentioned in the Eighth Section of this Act), which shall not at any Time or Times in the Opinion of the said Commissioners be required for the Purposes thereof, 20 either by public Auction or private Contract, and it shall be lawful for them to convey and assign or to grant or demise the same or any Part thereof to any Person who shall be willing to purchase or take the same, and for that Purpose to make and execute all such Conveyances, Assurances, Leases, and Agreements as may be thought proper, 25 and also to do any other Act, Matter, or Thing in relation to such Lands which shall by the said Commissioners be deemed beneficial for the public Service in relation thereto, or for the better Management thereof, and which might be done by any other Person having the absolute Fee Simple in any such Lands.

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XV. The Monies to arise and to be produced by Sale or Exchange any Lands which shall be sold or exchanged or conveyed under the Provisions of this Act shall be paid by the Purchaser thereof or the Person making any such Exchange to Her Majesty's Paymaster General for the Time being, and the Receipt of the said Paymaster 35 General for any such Monies (such Receipt to be indorsed on every such Conveyance as aforesaid) shall effectually discharge the Purchaser or Person by whom or on whose Account the same shall be so paid.

XVI. Immediately from and after the Payment of such Purchase 40 sessed of the Money and the Execution of every such Conveyance as aforesaid, the Purchaser therein named shall be deemed to stand seized and pos

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sessed of the Lands which shall be so purchased by and conveyed or made over to him freed and absolutely discharged of and from all, and all Manner of prior Estates, Rights, Interests, Charges, Incumbrances, and Demands whatsoever, which can or may be had, made, or set up in respect of such Lands by any Person whomsoever, by, from, under, or in trust for Her Majesty, her Heirs and Successors, or on any Account whatsoever, save and except such Estates, Rights, Interests, Charges, Incumbrances, Claims, and Demands (if any) as in any such. Conveyance shall be excepted.

The FIRST SCHEDULE to which the foregoing Act refers.

FIRST PART THEREOF.

All such Parts of Her Majesty's Dockyard at Devonport in the County of Devon, the Fee Simple of which may not at the Time of the passing of this Act be vested in Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, or in the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in trust for Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, for the Public Service, and also the free Use in Perpetuity of all the Roads, Roadways, Ways, and Passages following, that is to say:

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No. 1. A certain Roadway or Passage for all Foot Passengers and Horses, Carts, and Carriages whatsoever, adjoining the outer Wall of the said Dockyard on the North, South, and East Sides thereof, and is known by the Names following, that is to say: North Corner, Holman's Buildings, Queen Street, Dock-wall Street, James Street, and Mutton Cove, and extends in Length about Three thousand eight hundred Feet, and in Width from the said Dockyard Wall Thirty Feet.

No. 2. A certain Roadway or Passage for all Foot Passengers and Horses, Carts, and Carriages whatsoever, in, over, through, or upon all that Roadway or Passage of Thirty Feet broad or thereabouts in every Part thereof, extending in an Easterly Direction from a Gate or Place at the West End of Fore Street, Devonport, in the Parish of Stoke Damerel in the said County of Devon, called or known by the Name of the Dockyard Gate, unto or near a Gate or Place now or heretofore called Parsons Gate, which said Roadway or Passage is Seven hundred and two Yards in Length or thereabouts, and forms Part of Fore Street aforesaid, and of the High Road from Devonport aforesaid to the Borough of Tavistock in the said County of Devon, and which said Roadway contains Seven thousand and twenty Square

Yards Superficial Measure or thereabouts, and is bounded on the North and South partly by other Parts of Fore Street aforesaid, and partly by Lands, Buildings, Fortifications, and Works belonging to the Principal Officers of Her Majesty's Ordnance in trust for Her Majesty, on the West partly by the said Dockyard Gate and partly by a portion of the Wall of Her Majesty's Dockyard at Devonport aforesaid, and on the East by the Turnpike Road leading to Tavistock aforesaid.

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The SECOND PART of the said First Schedule.

All that Piece or Parcel of Ground situate, lying, and being in Morice Town in the Borough of Devonport in the Parish of Stoke Damerel in the County of Devon, including the following, namely: Firstly. The whole of a Yard known by the Name of Bird's Timber Yard, containing Twenty-two thousand five hundred and ninetyfour Feet and Seven Inches or thereabouts Superficial Measure. Secondly. The Northern Portion of a Yard known as Colwell's Yard, situate on the Western Side of the said last-named Yard, such Portion of Colwell's Yard being in Length on the Eastern Side thereof Seventy-four Feet or thereabouts, and on the Western Side thereof, Twenty-three Feet or thereabouts, which said Portion containing by Admeasurement Two thousand eight hundred and eleven Feet and Eleven Inches or thereabouts Superficial Measure.

Thirdly. The Northern Portion of a Yard known as Cornish's Yard, situate on the Western Side of Colwell's Yard aforesaid, which said Portion of Cornish's Yard is in Length on the Eastern Side thereof Twenty-three Feet or thereabouts, and terminates at a Point at the North-western Corner of Cornish's Yard aforesaid, which said last-named Portion contains by Admeasurement One thousand and fifty-nine Superficial Feet or thereabouts. Fourthly. A Slip or Portion of Ground immediately adjoining the first-named Yard on its Eastern Side now occupied as a Plantation and Roadway, and containing by Admeasurement Five hundred and ninety-seven Feet Eight Inches, or thereabouts, Superficial Measure, the whole of which said Piece or Parcel of Ground (comprising the Premises firstly, secondly, thirdly, and fourthly in this Second Part of the said First Schedule described) is bounded on the North by the Keyham Steamyard and a Portion of a Creek or Cove known as Moon Cove, on the South by the Path or Footway of a Street or Road leading from

the Northern End of William Street to the Northern End of Tamar Street, both in Morice Town aforesaid, and Portions of the said Colwell's Yard and Cornish's Yard, on the East by a Piece of Ground forming a Portion of the Western Footpath of Morice Place in Morice Town aforesaid, and on the West by a Portion of Colwell's Yard aforesaid and Moon Cove aforesaid, which said Piece or Parcel of Ground (comprising the Premises firstly, secondly, thirdly, and fourthly in this Second Part of the said First Schedule described) contains in the whole Twentyseven thousand and sixty-three Feet and Two Inches, or thereabouts, Superficial Measure.

The SECOND SCHEDULE to which the foregoing Act refers.

All that Piece or Parcel of Ground situate and being in Morice Town in the Borough of Devonport in the Parish of Stoke Damerel in the County of Devon, forming or which is intended to form a Portion of the Western Footpath of Morice Place in Morice Town aforesaid, which said Portion of Footpath was lately dedicated or intended to be dedicated by the Trustees of the Lord of the Manor of Stoke Damerel to the Use of the Public, and containing by Admeasurement Eight hundred and ninety-six Square Feet and Four Inches or thereabouts Superficial Measure, which said Piece or Parcel of Ground is bounded on the North by the Keyham Steamyard, on the South by the Northern Footpath of a Road or Street leading from the Northern End of William Street to the Northern End of Tamar Street in Morice Town aforesaid, on the East by the Western Footpath of Morice Place in Morice Town aforesaid, and on the West by a Slip of Ground occupied as a Plantation and Roadway.