STRAITS SETTL EMENTS 
(1920 Revision). 
RAFFLES SOCIETIES. 
Ordinance No. 177. 
[Ordinance VII. of 1878; 
16th December, 1878.] 
To confirm arrangements relating to the Agri- 
horticultural Society ancl the Raffles Museum and 
Library. 
Whereas a Society was formed in Singapore in or 
about the year 1866, for the encouragement and improve¬ 
ment of agriculture and horticulture, and the said Society 
became possessed of a certain piece of land in the district 
of Tanglin, in Singapore Island, containing twenty-four 
acres, one rood and nineteen perches under a deed of sale 
dated the ninth day of March, 1866; 
And whereas the then Government, in order to aid the 
said Society, on the twenty-seventh day of October, 1866, 
made to the Vice-President and Treasurer of the Society 
under the name of the Agri-horticultural Society a grant 
of fifty-five acres, three roods, and twenty-eight poles of 
Crown land in the same district, on the express condition 
that the said land should be used for public purposes, 
under the title and designation of “ The Agri- 
horticultural Society's Gardens,” with a proviso that if 
the land should not be used for the public purpose of an 
Agri-horticultural Garden or Gardens it should revert to 
the Crown; 
And whereas the said Society for the purpose of pro¬ 
curing funds to build a dwelling-house for the Curator 
of the said Gardens, mortgaged the said lands for the sum 
of four thousand dollars; 
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