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Cameron Grant Ordinance 1866

1. The Cameron Grant Ordinance 1866.

Analysis. Preamble.

1. Power to Superintend to alienate portions of Reserve No. 91.

2. Title.

Whereas as by Grant from the Crown bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of January One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six all that parcel of land in the Province of Canterbury in the Colony of New Zealand situate in the Ashley

District containing by admeasurement fifty acres more or less commencing at the junction ofb the road east of Section 767 with the North Road following along the latter road nort-easterly a distance measured in a straight line of thirty-two chains thirty links to the Saltwater Creek following down the said Creek to the River Ashley thence westerly along the said river to the road first-mentioned and from thence returning along the same to the commencing point and numbered 91 in red on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the said Province of Canterbury setting out and describing the Rural Land in the Ashley District aforesaid as the same is delineating on the plan drawn in the margin thereof was granted unto the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury and his successors in trust for

Ferry Reserve And whereas it is expedient that the said Superintendent should have power to alienate a portion of the said land comprised in the said recited Grant by way of sale.

Be it therefore enacted by the Superintendent of the said Province with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof as follows:

1. Power to Superintend to alienate portions of Reserve No. 91.

It shall be lawful for the Superintendent of the said Province with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof to alienate by way of sale unto Duncan Cameron and Donald Cameron of Saltwater Creek in the said Province of

Canterbury their heirs and assigns as tenants in common the fee simple of and in all that parcel of land containing eleven acres more or less being part of Reserve No. 91 in the said recited Grant described commencing at a point on the south side of the road the same being six chains seventy links from the edge of the Saltwater Creek following the said road in a westerly and southerly direction a distance of eighteen chains one link thence southerly at an angle of 119º 30” with the said road a distance seven chains fifteen links to the terrace following

easterly along the said terrace to a point being the extremity of a straight line being at right angles to and seven chains seventeen links distant from the commencing point and from thence returning along that line to the commencig point And also all that parcel of land being one acre more or less and being other part of the said reserve No. 91 in red commencing at a point on the Saltwater Creek the same being the eastern end of the south side of the road leading to the jetty following the said road in a westerly direction a distance of two chains fifty links thence southerly at a right angle a distance of seven chains to the Saltwater Creek before-mentioned and from thence returning along the same to the commencing point being part of the land comprised in the said recited Grant.

2. Title.

The said Ordinance shall be entituled and may be cited as “The Cameron Grant

Ordinance, 1866.”

Notes.

This Ordinance was passed by the Canterbury Provincial Council on the 31st

October 1866, and assented to by the Superintendent on 2nd November.