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Commissioners empowered to construct new quay frontage, to reconstruct and enlarge present quays, to reclaim sloblands and construct retaining embankments and to acquire lands, quays, etc.
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31.—Subject to the provisions of this Act the Commissioners may upon the lands shown on the deposited plans and described in the deposited book of reference construct a new quay frontage of stone, cement, timber or other suitable material and reconstruct and enlarge existing quays, and reclaim the slob-lands, river bed, and foreshore and construct the retaining embankments therefor in the lines and situations shown on the deposited plans and hereinafter described (and as regards all embankments on any level not exceeding the height of 44 feet above the datum line shown on the deposited sections); and subject as aforesaid the Commissioners may construct, lay down, erect, provide and maintain all necessary and convenient railway sidings, basins, quays, wharves, roads, approaches, buildings, warehouses, jetties, inclined planes, slips, bridges, locks, sluices, drains, culverts, staiths, moorings, cranes, crabs, capstans, anchors, mooring-chains, buoys, dolphins, mooring-frames, posts, sloops, weigh-beams, work-shops, lights and light-houses, dredging boats, dredgers, tugboats, machines, works and conveniences in upon or near the harbour or port, quays, wharves, slob-lands and embankments or which may be necessary or desirable in and for the construction and maintenance thereof; and may enter upon take and use such of the lands, quays, wharves, roads, approaches, buildings, railway sidings, works and other property described in the deposited book of reference as may be necessary for such purposes; and may purchase compulsorily or otherwise all or any of the existing quays, wharves, roads, approaches, buildings, railway sidings, works, and other property thereon within the harbour and port and shown on the deposited plans except as hereinafter provided.
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