IKOYI LANDS LAW OF LAGOS STATE

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LIST OF LAWS OF LAGOS, [ALPHABETICAL]  

IKOYI LANDS LAW

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1.       Short title

2.       Private owners to exhibit titles

3.       Crown grants purporting to

4.       Resurvey and issue of fresh grants

5.       Land held under any other than a crown Title to be demarcated within one year

6.       Procedure in case of unproved or disputed claims  

7.       Unclaimed lands to revert to the Crown

8.       Proviso for recovery of value in certain cases

IKOYI LANDS LAW

AN ORDINANCE TO PROTIDE FOR THE PROPER IDENTIFICATION AND DEMARCATION OF LANDS GRANTED BY THE CROWN TO PRTVATE OWNERS, AID SITUATED IN THAT PART OF LAGOS ISLAI{D, EAST OF THE MACGREGOR CANAL, GENERALLY KNOWN AS IKOYI.

[Commencement]                                                           [1st August i908]

Preamble

WHEREAS by a Treaty dated 6th August 161. Docemo,  King of Lagos, on the part of himself and chiefs. gave and transferred unto the Queen of Great Britain. her heirs and successors for ever his sovereign rights over the port and island of  Lagos with all the rights, profits, territories and appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging

AND WHEREAS the said island of Lagos is now divided into two unequal portions by the cutting known as the MacGregor Canal—

AND WHEREAS the fee simple in possession of the greater part of the portion situate to the East of that Canal (generally known as Ikoyi) was granted to the British Crown in or about the 1,ear 1865, which fact was established by a judgment of the Supreme Court of the Colony in the year 1904-

AND WHEREAS Crown grants have been made or are alleged to have been made from time to time of certain parts thereof

AND WHEREAS the position of the majority, of the lands alienated by such Crown grants is not sufficiently defined and the lands themselves have in many cases been deserted and abandoned for years

AND WHEREAS it is desirable that the boundaries of all private lands stil1 occupied on that portion of Lagos Island should be defined and the areas ol Crown lands be clearly ascertained-

Enactment

BE IT THEREPORE ENACTED by the Governor of the Colony of Southern Nigeria with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof as follows-

1.      Short Title This Ordinance may be cited as the Ikoyi Lands Ordinance.

LAWS OF LAGOS STATE

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