Basses Lights Act 1872
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Basses Lights Act, 1872
(35 & 36 Vict.) CHAPTER 55.
An Act for making better provision for the erection of Lighthouses on the Great Basses Rock, and on the Little Basses Rock, in the colony of Ceylon.
[6th August 1872]
Whereas by the Merchant Shipping Amendment Act, 1855, the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury and the Public Works Loan Commissioners are authorised to advance sums of money for the purpose of constructing a lighthouse on or near the coast of any British possession:
And whereas certain sums were advanced by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for the establishment of a light-ship near the Little Basses Rock off the coast of Ceylon, part of which has been repaid out of the dues received in respect of such light-ship, leaving a balance of eight thousand three hundred and thirty-six pounds or thereabouts due to the last-mentioned Commissioners, and some further expenses to a small amount incurred in such establishment remain unpaid:
And whereas by the Basses Lights Act, 1869, the Public Works Loan Commissioners were required to advance, for the purpose of constructing a lighthouse on the Great Basses Rock, off the coast of Ceylon, a sum not exceeding seventy thousand pounds, at the rate of three and a quarter per cent. per annum, to be repayable within a period not exceeding fifty years, and the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury were authorised to guarantee, jointly with the Secretary of State in Council of India, the principal and interest of such loan, and the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury and Secretary of State (in this Act referred to as the guarantors) have given a joint guarantee for the said loan of seventy thousand pounds (in this Act referred to as the loan of 1869), of which sixty thousand pounds have been actually advanced upon such guarantee in pursuance of the said Act at interest at the rate of three and a quarter per cent. per annum:
And whereas by an Order in Council of the eleventh day of November one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, certain dues are required to be paid in respect of the Great Basses Lighthouse and the Little Basses Light-ship:
And whereas there is standing to the credit of the fund formed out of the dues received in respect of the Little Basses Light-ship or of the Great Basses Lighthouse and Little Basses Light-ship a balance of seventeen thousand pounds or thereabouts.
And whereas it is expedient to pay out of the said balance such sum as remains due to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for the establishment of the Little Basses Light-ship, and any further expense of such establishment remaining unpaid, and to make further provision for the purpose of the construction of the said lighthouse on the Great Basses Rock, and also of a lighthouse on the Little Basses Rock, in substitution for the Little Basses Light-ship:
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with...
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