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PUBLIC HARBOURS ACT 1806

PUBLIC HARBOURS ACT 1806 - LONG TITLE

An Act for the Preservation of the Publick Harbours of the United
Kingdom.{1}
[23rd July 1806]
No person shall erect any pier, &c. in any publick harbour, &c.
without giving one month's notice to the Admiralty; under penalty of
#200.

WHEREAS the preservation of the publick harbours of the United
Kingdom is of great importance to the commerce and security thereof:
from and after the passing of this Act it shall not be lawful for
any person or persons to make, construct, or erect any pier, quay,
wharf, jetty, breast, or embankment in or adjoining to any publick
harbour in the United Kingdom, or any river immediately communicating
therewith, so far as the tide flows up the same, without giving at
least one month's previous notice of his, her, or their intention
so to do to the secretary of the Admiralty, who is to lay the
same before the lord high admiral or lords commissioners of the
Admiralty for the time being, the receipt of which notice the said
secretary is hereby required duly to acknowledge; upon pain that
every person or persons offending shall forfeit and pay the sum of
two hundred pounds, to be recovered by action, or information, ....




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