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Power to Admiralty to acquire Lands for Coast-guard Stations.
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V. The Commissioners of the Admiralty may from Time to Time, by any Writing under their Hands, authorize any Person to survey and mark out any Lands not exceeding Three Acres, at or for any One Coast-guard Station which may be wanted for the Purposes of the Coast-guard Service, with all necessary Way: unto and from the same, and may authorize any Person, by Warrant, to treat and agree with the proper Parties for the Purchase of such Lands, or the Possession thereof; and the Sections of the Act passed in the Seventeenth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter One hundred and seven, numbered respectively from Three hundred and thirty-six to Three hundred and forty-five (each inclusive), and all Sections of other Acts therein mentioned, shall be and are hereby incorporated with this Act; and whenever in any of the Sections of any Act so hereby incorporated the Expression “the Commissioners of the Treasury,” or the Expression “the Commissioners of Customs,” shall occur, each of such Expressions shall for the Purposes of this Act he deemed and taken to mean the Commissioners of the Admiralty, and whenever in any of such Sections the Expression “the Officers of Customs” shall occur, such Expression shall for the Purposes of this Act be deemed and taken to mean Officers of the Coast Guard.
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