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FREE PORT OF COPENHAGEN

99

CHARTER OF THE COPENHAGEN FREE PORT JOINT BTOCK co.!

The secretary of the interior, ete.:
In accordance with the authority granted me by the law of March 31, 1891,
[ approve herewith the charter of the Copenhagen Free Port Joint Stock Co.,
organized on the 25th day of April of the same year with a capital of 4,000,000
kroner for the purpose of carrying into effect the management of the free port
mentioned in said law during a period of 80 years (the territory of the free port
will be treated as lying outside the customs territory of Denmark). This charter
#ill go into effect as soon as said free port has been constructed by the Copenhagen
 harbor board and equipped by the company with the installations for its
dperation. All of these acts to be subject to the following conditions: .
Arr1eLE 1. The free port will be constructed by the Copenhagen harbor board
according to plans approved by the secretary of the interior and based on the
stipulations of law No. 44, dated March 81, 1891 (art. 2). These plans have
been submitted to the company, but the harbor board reserves the right to make
such modifications as, by agreement with the company, may be found necessary
a8 the work progresses.
ArT. 2. The work to be undertaken by the harbor board is as follows:
Construction of a breakwater and of the new basinsin the free port to the depth
and with the installations agreed upon.
To prepare the lands redeemed from the sea by the harbor board that are to
%¢ included in the free port.
Acquisition and preparation of additional land for the free port, including the
tonstruction of a mole to separate the southern basin of the free port from the
‘terior bay. This mole, which is to be 250 to 270 feet in width, to be partly
I the customs territory and partly in the free port.
The construction of the wharves from the quay of this mole toward the interior
Jay also forms part of this work.
Construction of a canal for flat-bottomed boats between the southern basin of
the free port and the interior bay; a fence to separate the territory of the free
dort from that of the customhouse; customs guardhouses; streets, sewers, and
drains and drainage canals for the street. The city of Copenhagen is to be con-Stlted
 in regard to these various constructions whenever it may be necessary
"0 do so.
The arrangement of all streets in the free port.
The fencing in of the road of communication provided by the aforementioned
law between the free port and the Copenhagen customhouse, the roadbed to be
Macadamized; another road is to be constructed at the Government's expense
and under the direction of the secretary of the interior, the land on both sides
of the road to be prepared, as well as all adjoining roads, to such an extent as
May be necessary for the main road proper.
The inclosure of the territory of the free port toward the part called Langlinie
nd widening and installing therein a harbor for pleasure crafts. }
ART. 3. In order to separate the territory of the free port from that of the
Customhouse, there shall be constructed on the mole that separates the southern
Yasin from the interior bay two iron fences 6 feet apart to permit the passage
of the guards. Of these two iron fences or railings, the inside and higher one
Will be placed on the line dividing the free port from the customhouse district.
On the mole mentioned above, instead of a passageway for the guards, an eleated
 road 30 feet wide, inclosed, and from 6 to 7 feet above the level of the
Mole, will be built; beneath there will be constructed two passages between the
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a Printed in report of United States Tariff Commission, Free Zones in Ports of United States, issued