Preamble, The Kroo Reservation Ordinance

Kroo Reservation [Cap. 127 1285 CHAPTER 127. KROO RESERVATION. WHEREAS an Act of the Colony was passed on the eighth day Preamble. of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, intituled "An Act for purchasing and vesting in His Majesty certain lands now belonging or said to belong to Eli Ackim of Freetown, in the Colony, trader, for the site of a town for the Kroomen resorting to the Colony for labour ": AND WHEREAS by the said Act the Governor was authorised to purchase and acquire from the said Eli Ackim, compulsorily or otherwise, as much land as should be sufficient for the purposes of the said Act within certain boundaries therein set out, to wit, Saunders Brook on the east, Signal Hill Road on the south, Saint George's Bay on the north, and a line thereafter to be determined by the surveyor on the west: AND WHEREAS in pursuance of the said Act a portion of such land was acquired by the Governor and became Crown land and the Kroomen resorting to the Colony were permitted to occupy and build houses thereon: AND WHEREAS owing to lapse of time and the insufficiency of records doubts have arisen as to the extent and boundaries of the land acquired as aforesaid and as to the rights and duties of Kroomen and others in respect thereof: · Short title. Reservation declared Crown land. Reservation under management of Tribal Authority. Cap. 121] Kroo Reservation AND WHEREAS it is expedient to remove such doubts. 1. .This Ordinance may be cited as the Kroo Reservation Ordinance.