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THE PROPOSED DRY DOCK FOR SWANSEA. The following is an epitome of the lease granted by the trustees of the Swansea Harbour to Messrs. Poigndestre and Mesnier for the construction of the proposed Dry Dock, and which was discussed by the Chamber of Lommeice at its meeting on Wednesday. The report of the meeting appears in our 3rd page. ] .-The site oi tne UOCK IS tnat mdicated in the map published with the Swansea Tide Table. 2.-The length of the dock will be 600 feet; the width 5) feet. 3.—It will communicate with the Prince of Wales Dock by means of gates. 4.—The works will be carried out in accordance with plans and specifications to be approved by the trustees' engineer, and under his direction. 5.—To be completed within IS months. 6.—The lease is to be for 73 years. 7.—All vessels and persons, using the dock are to be under the control of the harbour master. 8.-The tenants undertake to always have upon the premises ample and suitable plant and tools of the most modern con- struction for shipbuilding. 9.—The following provision as to stemming for the dock is to be inserted:—(/) That the reception of vessels into the said graving dock, and the bespeaking of the said dock for the use of vessels, shall always be regulated according to priority of entry in the stemming book, and otherwise by the regulations usually adopted in the case of public commercial graving docks one of which is that when the dock is capable of taking in two vessels, and the next two entered in the stemming book are sailing vessels, such sailing vessels shall only have a priority over half the dock. That is to say. the tenants shall be at liberty to take in one sailing vessel and the steamer next on the stem (provided it is in readiness to enter), and the tenants shall always keep a stemming book in respect of vessels requiring to use the dock, which book shall he at all times open to the inspection of the trustees, their officials, and agents, who shall be at all times at liberty to make such extracts from and copies of the same as they may think tit, and such stemming book shall be kept in such form as the trustees shall from time to time reasonably require and direct, and no vessel shall be entered in the stemming book until after her arrival in Swansea Harbour at the Mumbles Roadstead, or any port between the Mumbles Head and Porthcawl inclusive, and no changing of turns in the stemming book shall be allowed without the written permission of the harbour-master for the time being of Swansea harbour, which permission shall be granted in case of a vessel arriving in a damaged condition or under such circumstances as may in his judgment and at his absolute dis- cretion render immediate admission to the dock absolutely necessary; and all owners, masters, brokers, and agents of vessels requiring to use the dock shall always have equal opportunity and privileges one with another, and without undue preference one over another in respect to the said dock and the stemming of vessels for the same and the trustees shall, if they so think tit, be at liberty to appoint an agent on their behalf whose duty and powers it shall be to regulate and control the stemming of vessels in respect of the said graving dock, in conjunction and association with the managers of the dock, and the reservation contained in the said lease shall comprise full powers to the trustees by their harbour master to regulate and control the entry and departure of vessels into and out of the said graving dock, with a view as well to the regulation of the traffic of the Prince of Wales Dock as to the due enforcement of the fore- going provisions as to stemming and priority of entry to the gaiefaction of the trustees. 10. The tenants undertake not to demand or take, in respect of any vessel, higher dues for entering, stemming, docking, and undocking, and other dock charges in force from time to time in similar docks in the port of Cardiff. 11. The trustees are to have the option to purchase the dock at costprice at the end of any ten years of the term, on giving two years' notice, but in that case they agree to use the dock as it public commercial dock.

. EELEY, V. POWELL'S DUFFRYN…

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Family Notices

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SWANSEA BOARD OF GUARDIANS.

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ROYAL INSTITUTION LECTURE.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND AMENITIES.

TO THP. EDITOR OF TH*5 " CAMBRTAN."

SWANSEA VALLEY RAILWAY SERVICE.

♦— OYSTERMOUTH LOCAL BOARD.