Home | Databases | WorldLII | Search | Feedback Bahamas Numbered Acts

The Children's Home Act, 1956

IV – 170] CHILDREN’S HOME

Act No. 21 of 1956

21 of 1956

Short title. The Dundas

Civic Centre empowered to sell and convey certain hereditaments.

CHILDREN’S HOME

An Act to provide a site for a children’s home.

[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.

2. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary con- tained 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.

STATUTE LAW OF THE BAHAMAS [Original Service 2001]

CHILDREN’S HOME [IV – 171

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.

––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– [Original Service 2001] STATUTE LAW OF THE BAHAMAS