Natural Resources Conservation (Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park) (Declaration) Order, 1993
Made 1993-02-26 · Text as of 2026-10-01
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NATURAL RESOURCES CONSl!RVATJON A.UTIIORJTY THE NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION AUTHORITY ACT OIWER (under section .38) THE NATURAL RESOURCES CoNSERVATION (BLUI! AND JOHN CRow MouNTAINS NATIONAL PARK) {DECLARATION) ORDER, 1993 (Made by the Minister on the 26th day of February, 199.3, upon the recommendation oj the Natural Resources Conservation Authority) L.N. 9F/9l [26th February, 1993] t This Order may be cited as the Natural Resources Conservation (Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park) (Declaration) Order. 1993. 2. The boundaries of the Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park shall be as set out in the Schedule. (The lnclusioa of this pa11e .i. authorized by L.N. 54/2000) Schedule. 67 68 THE NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION (BLUE AND JOHN CROW MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK) (DECLARATION) ORDER, 1993 SCHEDUU! (Paragraph 2) All that piece or parcel of Crown Land known as Silver Hill and Chestervale Plan:at1on s.tuated in the parishes of St. Andrew and Portland containing by survey 206.88 hectares and butting: NORTHERLY: On Silver Hill in possession of the Chief Secretary EASTERLY: On part of Ches'ervale in possession of the Chief Secretary and Clydesdale Forest Reserve SOUTHERLY: On part of Clifton Mount in possession of the Com missioner of Lands and part of Cbestervale in possession of Yallahs Valley Land Authority WesTERn: On part of Silver Hill in possession of the Chief Secretary, Wallcnford in possession of Ina Benn, main road from Buff Bay to St. Peters, or however otherwise the same may be butted, bounded, known, distinguished or described. All that piece or parcel of Crown Land part of the Tom's Hope Land Settle ment in the parish of Portland containing by surv~y 29.67 hectares and bulling: NORTHERLY: On parts of the Tom's Hope Land Settlement allotted to small settlers east on a portion of the property known as Mt. Lebanus in the possession of Valdin Morrison and on Crown Lands known as Adam Brandon'a patent south on a portion of Adam Brandon's patent in the poss~ss;on of Charles Moresby west on a parochial road leading from Windsor to Park Mount and on a reserved road save and except: (a) that portion of the parochial road 149.8 metres w:de leading from Windsor to Park Mount and passing through the area above described; and (b) that portion of a road reserved 62.42 metres wide leading from lot I 56 of the Tom's Hope Land Settlement to Mt. Lebanus and passing through the area above described. All those p3rcels of Crown Lands in the parishes of St. Mary, St. Andrew, Por'land. and SI. Th0mas knov.n as the Blue Mountain Forest Reserve and containing by estimation 41,939.87 hectares more or less and including tr.e foi1ow1ng oiods: Ginger River Block ( District 17) Comprising the following patents or parts thereof Cottage, Andover, Joppa, Keith Hall, Mullet Hall and Killi-Krankie part of Knowsley, Wes'.minster Cottage, remainder of Westminster Collage, Unpatented Land, Fair Hill, Shooter's Hill, Osbourne Mountain part of Samuel Hyde, J. Gordon and Edward McG:!achy, Warminster, Daniel D'Luskie, part of Dry River Retreat, part of Juniper Grove and butting: NoRnIERLY: From Good Hope, Hermitage, Dumfries and Port George Pen EASTERLY: On Mount Joseph. Lovely Grove and Alexander Gordon Planta!ion, Dry River Retreat in the possession of small settlers, Shantamee and Birnamwood Plantations and part of the Blue Mountain Forest Reserve, District 18 SoUTHFRI y: On Wm. Whitfield and Mt. Cressy, Mt. Olive, New Garden, Mt. Prospect Wes1r.RLY: On Mt. Horeb. Mt. Sinai and Belle Air, Prospect Hill or however oth;:rw;sc the s·1mc may be butted, bounded, fThe inch-fon of thi, par;e is authorized by L.N. 54/2000) THE NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION (BLUE AND JOHN CROW MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK) (DECLARATION) ORDER, 1993 ScnEDULE, contd. known, d:stin11u:shed or described save and except those parcels of land in the possession of small settlers. Juniper Block ( District 17) All that portion of Crown Land forming part of the Blue Mountain Forest Reserve and butting: N0RTllERL Y : WESTERLY: or however otherwise or described. On part of the Blue Mountain Forest Reserve, District 18 On Mt. Moses, Tweedside and Wm. Whitfield in the possession of the Water Commission, the same may be butJtcd, bounded, known, distinguished Springfield Block (District 17) Comprising rhe following patents or parts thereof Springfield, Heirs of Bains and bubting: NoRTHER!LY: On Summer Hill BASTJ!RLY: On part of the Blue Mountain Forest Reserve, District 18 and Hermitage in the possession of the Water Commission SOUTHERLY: On Norwich Oastle and part of Campbell's Mount in the possession of the Water Commission WESTERLY: On Moresham and Muff Castle in the possession of the Water Commission, or bowover otherwise the same may be butted, bounded, known, distinguished or described. Newcastle Block, Western (District 18) Comprising the following patents or parts thereof Juniper Grove Old England, Heirs of Dodd, Oathley, Castle Dawson, Green Hills, H<?llyweil,. Mt. Hor~b and West Vale, C~ld Spr ing, Clifton Mt., Limeri ck Mtn., Silver Hill, Jamaica Spa, Pleasant Hill, M;ddleton, Greenwich Hill, Caledonia, part of Lancaster, Southfield, part of Smithfield, Copper Castle, Newcastle and butting: NoRTllERJLY: On part of the Blue Mountain Forest Reserve, Shantamee and Birnamwood Plantations EASTBRLY: On Shan~amee and Birnamwood Plantations, part of Smith· field, part •Of Lancaster in possession of small settlers, WakelHd Plantation in possession of H. H. Bur2her, Cedar Valley Plantation in possession of Mfrs V. Benn er al part of Middleton, Elderslie, part of Castle Dawson, Green Hills, Marlborough Castle, Wallenford, Jamaica Spa, part of Silver Hill, Clifton Mount, part of Pleasant Hill, and Mt. Lebanon SoumERLY; On Charlottenburgh, Little Pleasant Hill, part of Middle ton, part of New Castle and Hopewell Plantation WESTERLY: On Maryland Plantation, Ml. Dorothy and part .of the Blue Mountain Forest Reserve District 17, or bOWf:Ver otherwise the same may be butted, bounded, known, distinguished or d'!scnbed, save and except those parcels of land in the possession of small settlers. (The inclusion of this page is authorized by L.N. 54/20001 69 70 THE NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATlON(ffWB A.ND 1011N C'llO'W MOUNT AlNS N A.TIONA.L PARK> (DECLARATION) ORDER, lJtJ Sc:MDUU!, contd. Silver Hi/I Block, Eastern (District 18) Comprising the following patent, or -parts thereof John Ferguson's patent, part of Chestervale Pliantations, Ross Patent, part of Sil\'er Hill, part of Cedar Valley Plantation, part of Spring Hill, 11nd Clydeldale and butting: NoRTlfERft-Y: EASTEP.LY: On part of the Blue Montain Forest Reserve., District 19 On part of the Blue Mouatain Forest Retei-te, Diltrictl 19 and 26 SoUTRl!RLY: On Pleasant Hill and part of Chestervale Plantation WesrnRLv: On part of Wallenford, part of Cedar Valley Plantation, Spring Hill and Obestervale, or however otherwise the same may be butted, bounded, known, dictinpisbel or described. Trafalgar Block (Dl1trlct 19} Comprising the following patents or partl thereof Part of Geo. Wright, part of Sportsman's Hall, Patality, pan of AtkiOIOll and Hanbury, ColLhirst's Run, Trafalgar Plantation, part of Leigbfield, part of Pleasant Mount, John Buck's Patent, Westphalia, Edward McGeacby, · Samuel Linwood, and Wm. Linwood, Robert B. Hugh, New Ha'Ven part of Wood and Plummer, J?art of Geo. Burrell, Ridtant Faith part of Hall's Delight . and unreserved ·crown Land-part of Geo. Wright and part of Sportman's Hall, and butting: NORTHBRL Y : EASTERLY: On Retreat, M. Bigg.a, part of Hall's Delight, rrt ot Atkinson and Hanbury, Resource and Trouble Hi) On part of the Blue Mountain Forest Reserve, District, 20 and 26 SoUTHERLY: On part of Blue Mounl!ain Forest Reserve, District 26 WesTERL v: On part of Blue Mountain Forest Reserve, District II Breman Valley, part of Leighfield in the pollCISion of small settlers, and the Brook Plantation, or however otherwise the same may be butted, bounded, DOWD, diltinaaiabelf or described. Swift River Bwck (Diffrict 20} Comprising the following patents or parts thercof P:,irt of Friendship Hall, part of Thomas Cockbum, Sartop, part of Wm. Peard!, Geo. McKeand, part of Geo. Burrell, rrt of Wood and Plummel' part of Wm. Collard, unpatcnted bound part o Colthint'a llun, Johll R;aa... part of Scotland, part of Bengal, Holland. Wm. Lee John Ansuill, Boston. p~rt of John Sandenon, Batavia, John Symes, unr:.n,ed Crown Land Richard Ivy Mann, Robert McKoy, part of Fruitful Vale, Davis Sherril Jam• Jenkins, Geo. Brooks, part of Friendship Hall, part of Wm. Pearee, part of Wm. Collard, part of Scotland, part of Bengal and buttiag: NORTHERLY: On AIJany, Pippingford, Shirley Castle, Liberty Hill. llet. Geo. Hall, Pigeon Hill, Ashcott, Joo. Lowe, Twichenbam Plantation, part of Fruitful Vale, Dunbar, Burtoa Hill, BASTl!ll.1.Y: SoUTHERL Y : WESTERLY: Manchester, part of unpatented Land On pan of the Blue Mountahl Forest Reserve, Diltrid 21 On part of the Blue Mountain Forest Reserve, Diltrict 21 On part of the Blue Mountain Forest lleaerve Diltricta 26 and 19, or however otherwise the same may be butted, bounded, known, distinaufabed or described. (The inclusion of this page fl authorized by L.N. 54/lOOOI THE NATURAL RESO-UltCES CONSERY ATION (BLUE AND 1OHN CROW MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARKJ (DECLARATION) ORDER, 1991 ScHEouLB. contd. John'i Hall Block (Dim-fer 21 J Comprising the following patents or parts thereof Part of Chatlea Siewart, part of John Sanderson, John Neilson, Thomas Reece. Jobn Swarbeck, Paul Phipps, Jno. P. Baker, Wm. Smellie, James Farrier, Jamea Campbell, Wm. Lane, Colin McKenzie· I and II, Anne Lane, Charles Phipps I and II, Abigail Phipps, Edward P. Wallen I and II, Thomas Gray, Thomas CUshnie, Mark HoWBrd, Elizabeth Ann Adams and unreserved Crown Lands, that ia pan of John Sanderson, Tuscany, Madrid, part of John Swarbedc, .part of Friendship Hall, part of Geo. Christie, and butting: NoRnmtLY: On unpatented Land, Brook Dale and Golden Vale Estat, EAsTBIU.Y: On Rose Hill, Garland, Grove, Kensington Plantation, Experiment Hill, Brownsfield and part of the Blue Mountain Forest Reserve, District 22 Souffil!Rl.Y: On part of the Blue Mountain Forest Reserve, District 25 WBSTl!ltLY: On part of the Blue Mountain Forest Resei\te, District 20, or however otherwise the same may be butted, bounded, known, distinguished or described. Rio Grande Block, Weitern (Dbtrlct 22) Comprisina the followlna patents or parts thereof Part of Geo. Christie, Patk. Johnson Natty, Fraser and Kinneard Wm. SmcJlit I and H, Edward Burry I and Il part of Marshall Hall, Alex. Cumming I, 11 and III, part of Daniel Moore, Edward West, part of Robert McDermott, Kings Land, Edward Bernard, Geo, French I, II and III, part of Thomas Cock• burn, Francis Moore, part of John Moore I and II, and part of Edgar'r llio Grande Pen, and butting: NOJlnfBlll.Y: On Kent l!AsTmu.v: On Claremont, MarshaTI's Han. Altimont Township, Mi} Bank, Bowden Pen, part of Edgar's Rio Grande SoUTHER.t. Y: On part of the Blue Mountain Forest Reserve, District 24 WBS'l1llU.v: On part of the Blue Mountain Forest Reserve, Districta 21 and 25, or howeyer otherwise the same may be butted, bounded, known, distinguished CN' deacnbed. Rio Grande Bloclc, Ea.rtern (District 22) ComprisinJ the following patents or parts thereof Part of Holland Mountain, part of Silvera's Run, part of Joe Hitl, p-art 01 Adam Brandon. James Barton and Gardner, Wm. Fullerton I and II, Robert Graham, Thoa. Wainsborough, part of James Lindsay, Mt. Gambier, John Proctor, The Aluremen·t, part of Mt. Rodney, Come-and sec-me, part of Hollan6 Rio Grande Pen, part of Alex. Bell Patrick Grant, John McLean, Allan and John McLean, Charles Grant, and unreserved Crown Land, that is ML Leban111 and butti111 : Noanmu.v: l!Asnrat.v: W.BSTULY: On Caledonia and Cambridge Back Lands On part of the Blue Mountain Forest Reserve, District 23 On part of Alex Bell, part of Holland Rio Grande, ))art of Holland Mtn., part of Sifvera's Run, Fish Brt'lok, Rio Grande River, Cornwall Pen, Nottingham Pen, Moore Town Maroon Land, part of Joe Hill, Windsor Estate, Small Settlers' Loll, Tom's Hope Estate, or however otherwise the same may be butted, bounded, known, distinguished or· delc:n'bed. (TIie lllclus.ion of thla page Is authorized by L.N. 54/20001 71 THE NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION (BLUE AND JOHN CROW. MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK) (DECLARATION} ORDER, 1991 ScHEoULB, contd. John Crow Block (Di,trict 25) Comprising t!he followin.:; patents or parts thereof Part of John McRoberts, Sm. Baillie, part of James Baillie, Elizabeth BaJ1tie. part of John Salmon, John Moodie l and II, Allan Mclean I, II and III, part of Wm. Ross, part of Thomas Weir, part of Hodgson, and Malgred, unclaimed Land south of Cambridge Back Lands, H. Littlejohn, Wm. Fulton lll, Thomu Wainsborough, Hospitality, part of John Scarlett, part of Windsor CasUe Mtn., Thomas Davidson I and II, Robert Locke, Geo. Ball, Geo. French IV, part of Edward Stanton, Lawrence Arglesworlh and unreserved Crown Lands, that ii, part of Joo. Salmon, part of John Scarlett, part of Windsor Castle Mountain, part of Edward Stanton, Greenfield, Bellevue and butting: NORTHERLY: On Cambridge Back Lands, part of John McRoberta EASTERLY: On part of John McRoberts, part of Thos. Weir, Hod190n and Malgren, part of Wm. Ross. Vineyard Hill, Eccles down Pen, Spring Valley, part of James B•illie in. posses sion of small settlers, Muirton Dack Lands, Eddingham Plantation, Haining Estate · SourHERLY: On Rowlandsfield, part of the Blue Mountain Foreat Reserve, District 24 WESTERLY: On part of the Blue Mountain Forest Reserve, District 24. or however otherwise the same may be butted, bo11nded, known, distinguisbe4 or described. Plantain 'Garden Block (District 24} Comprising the following paten-ts or parts thereof Wind Hill, Duart Castle and Farm. Craighead. Nathaniel Beckford, Donald Taylor Henry Lumsden, Alex Sherirf I, II and IU, Wm. Craigie, part of John McKinley, Cave, Bottom Pound Hill, Wm. Probart, Aeneas Grant, John Nimmo. Lots Mt. Donald, Edward East, part of Cedar Grove and butting: NORTHERLY: On part of the Blue Mountain Forest Reserve, Districtl EASTERLY: SoUTHERiLY: 22 and 23 On part of the Blue Mountain Forest Reserve, District 23 On Kent, Lebanon, part of Cedar Grove, Dr. Alex. McLean, Wm. Forbes, rart of Mt. Donald, Murraf.'1 Plantation Walk, iiart o John McKinley, House Hill, Greenwood Castle and Golden Valley, White Hall Wl!STERLY: On part of the Blue Mountain Forest Reserve, District 2.5, or however otherwise the same may be butted, bounded, known, distinguished or described . .. Trinity1d/le Block ( District 25) Comprising the following patents or parts thereof Francis Rigley BroadbeH, David Henriques, Dunrobin, Doncan · McOlalhan, Newington, part of Union Hill, Parket Bennett Franklin, James Gardner, Nicholas Bourke, Geo. Hall, Robert Sutherland, Daniel Moore, Thos .. Fearon, Robert Areedeekne, Wm. Hall Willeys I, II and Ill, Wm. Willeys IV and V, John H. Cudgar, Elizabeth Willeys, H. Andrew Franklin, Geo. Munroe, Wm Logan, Wm. Pollack, Geo. Campbell 1, II and III, James Farrier, James Campbell, Edward P. Wallen I and II, Alex. Brown, Augustus Vallett, M11rt Howard, Chas. Mais t and TI. John Mais, Geo. Parker, Elizabeth Ann Adams, Moy Hall, Garerand Hall and butting: NORTHERLY: On part of the Blue Mountain Forest Reserve, District 21 [The inclusion of lbis p•11e Is 11utboclzed. by L.N. SC/20001 THE NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION (BLUE AND JOHN CROW MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARKJ (DECLARATION) ORDER, 1993 ScHEDULI!., contd. EASTERL,: On part of the Blue Mountain Forest Reserve, Dis~ricu 22 and 24 SoUTHF.ltl.Y On property known as Spring, Hillside, Mullet Hall and Garbrand Hall, part of Un;on Hill in the possession of small settlers, Island Head, Benn Lomon<!. Newfield, Newington, Moy Hall and Windsor \VEST[RL Y: On part of the Blue Mounta;n Forest Reserve, Di,trict 26, or however otherwise the same may be butted, bounded, known, distinauiahed or described, Cinchona Block ( District 26) Comprising the following patents or parts thereof Part of Pleasant Hill, Bellevue, remainder of Crichton Run, Dulce Domum, Markham Hill, part of Woodland, part of Strawberry Hill, Helen Whair, Thos. Rurpin, unpllen,ed land (north of Hibernia), Old England, part of ML Teviot, J. Fowl~s I and II, Wm. Cowan, Alex. Robertson, Alex. Stephenson, S. J. Dallas,.Portland Gap I, II and lll, part of Abbey Green, part of Whitfield Hall, part of Radnor, Ector's Patent, Wm. Gordon, unpatented land (North of Portland Gap), Anthony Davis, Henry Stanley, Iron River, Henry Turpin, W. H. Hall, John Hall and Sheldon Black Land, Maria French and butting: NoRTHERL Y: On part of the Blue Mountain Forest Reserve, Districts 19 and 20 EASTERLY: On part of the Blue Mountain Forest Reserve, Districts 20, 21 and 25 SoUOll;F:LY: On Arntully, Sherwood Forest, remaining portions of Rad nor. Al>bey Grem and Whitfield Hall, Sheldon, rem:iining portions of Mt. Teviot, Old England, Strawberry Hill and Woodlands and Mount Hybh WBSTERLY: On Resource, Pleasant Hill and part of the Blue Mountain Forest Reserve, District Ill, or however otherwise the same may be buned, bounded, known, distinguished or described. 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