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Christchurch Municipal Corporation Reserves Ordinance 1870

8. The Christchurch Municipal Corporation Reserves Ordinance 1870

[30th January 1871.]

Whereas the lands tenements and hereditaments described in the Schedule to this Ordinance annexed are vested in the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury and his successors subject to the provisions of an Act passed by the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Public Reserves Act 1854” And whereas an Act was passed by the said General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Public Reserves Act Amendment Act 1862” whereby the Superintendent and Provincial Council of any Province may by any Ordinance duly passed in that behalf direct and declare that any lands vested or which might thereafter be vested in the Superintendent of any Province under the provisions of “The Public Reserves Act 1854” upon trust for any public purposes should be transferred to and vested in and held by any Corporation Commissioners or other person or persons having corporate succession to be named in such Ordinance in such manner and with such powers of lease management and disposition over the same and over all rents issues profits and proceeds thereof and other powers provisoes and conditions as should in such Ordinance be expressed and declared And whereas it is expedient that the said lands tenements and hereditaments so vested in the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury as aforesaid and described in the Schedule hereto annexed should be vested in the Mayor Councillors and citizen of the City of Christchurch.

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

1. Lands Tenements and Hereditaments described in Schedule to be vested in Mayor Councillors and Citizens of City of Christchurch.

That the said lands tenements and hereditaments described in the said Schedule shall be and the same are hereby transferred to and vested in and held by the Mayor Councillors and citizens of the City of Christchurch and their successors as a Body Corporate in trust for municipal purposes of the City of Christchurch.

2. Superintendent may grant and convey to said Corporate Body said lands tenements and hereditaments.

That it shall be lawful for the Superintendent in Council to grant and convey to the said Corporate Body the said lands tenements and hereditaments hereinbefore declared to be vested in such body upon trust for the purposes hereinbefore expressed.

3. Said Corporate Body may lease and manage said lands tenements and hereditaments.

That notwithstanding the trust hereinbefore declared it shall be lawful for the said Corporate Body to lease and manage the said lands tenements and hereditaments at such rents issues and profits as they may deem expedient so that such lease or leases be not for any longer period than twenty-one years to take effect from the day of the execution thereof and so that no fine premium or forfeit be taken for the same.

4. Rents issues and profits shall form part of City Funds of said Corporate

Body.

All rents issues and profits received by virtue of this Ordinance shall form part of the city funds of the said Corporate Body.


Schedule.

All that piece or parcel of land situate in the Christchurch district near the Horse Shoe Lagoon and containing by admeasurement Thirty Acres more or less commencing at a point on the south-western aide of the road forming the north- eastern boundary of section No. 3099 the said point being the easternmost corner of that section thence south-westerly along the south-eastern boundary of the same a distance of twenty chains fifty links thence westerly along the East Christchurch road to its junction with the road forming the western boundary of section No. 3099 thence southerly along the said road to its junction with the road forming the northern boundary of section No. 557 thence easterly and north- easterly following that road to its junction with the road first before mentioned and from thence returning north-westerly along the same to the commencing point and numbered 209 (in red) on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the Province of Canterbury setting out and describing the rural land in the Christchurch district aforesaid.

All that piece or parcel of land situate in the Christchurch district and containing by admeasurement Eighteen Acres more or less commencing at the junction of the southern side of the road forming the southern boundary of Reserve No. 107 (in red) with the western side of the road forming the western boundary of sections Nos. 1148 and 1145 thence south-easterly and southerly following the latter road a distance of twenty-eight chains measured in a straight line to its junction with the road forming part of the north-eastern boundary of section No.1144 thence north-westerly north-easterly and northerly following that road to its junction with the road forming the southern boundary of reserve No. 107 (in red) first before mentioned and from thence returning easterly along the same to the commencing point and numbered 210 (in red) on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the Province of Canterbury setting out and describing the rural land in the Christchurch district aforesaid.

All that piece or parcel of land situate in the Christchurch district and containing by admeasurement Twenty-two Acres more or less commencing at a point on the north-eastern side of the road forming the south-western boundary of section No. 1144 the said point being the southernmost corner of that section thence northerly along the eastern boundary of the same a distance of twenty-six chains sixty links thence south-easterly southerly and westerly following the road forming the western boundary of sections Nos. 1145 and 1146 a distance of about forty chains to its junction with the road first mentioned and from thence returning north-westerly along the same to the commencing point and numbered 211 (in red) on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the Province of Canterbury setting out and describing the rural land in the Christchurch district aforesaid.

All that piece or parcel of land situate in the Christchurch district and containing by admeasurement Thirty Acres more or less commencing at the junction of the eastern side of the road forming the eastern boundary of sections Nos. 901 and 4533 with the southern side of the road forming the southern boundary of section No. 8776 thence easterly following the latter road nine chains seventy links thence southerly along the road forming the western boundary of section No.8188 a distance of twenty-one chains thence westerly and north-westerly following the road forming the north-eastern boundary of section No. 1148 a distance of twenty chains twenty links to its junction with the road first before mentioned thence northerly along the same to the commencing point and numbered 212 (in red) on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the Province of Canterbury setting out and describing the rural land in the Christchurch district aforesaid.


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