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Cathedral Square Ordinance 1858

5. The Cathedral Square Ordinance 1858

Whereas by a certain Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury, entituled “Christ's College Ordinance,” certain persons therein named, and all such other persons as should thereafter become Warden, or be elected or appointed Sub-Warden, or Fellows, and their Successors, were constituted a Body Politic and Corporate by the name of “Christ's College, Canterbury,” and were made able and capable in Law to purchase, receive, possess, and enjoy, to them or their Successors, any messuages, lands, buildings, tenements, and hereditaments, situate in the Colony of New Zealand or elsewhere: And Whereas, under and by virtue of a certain Deed bearing date the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and

fifty-five, being the Deed of Foundation of the said College, and of a certain Deed

of Conveyance dated the Twenty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, made and executed in pursuance of the said Deed of

Foundation, the said Corporation is seized in ee simple and is otherwise well and sufficiently entitled to a certain section of town land situate in the city of Christchurch, within the said Province, containing three acres one rood and three perches statute measure, or thereabouts, forming the centre of Cathedral Square within the said city: And Whereas the Governing Body of the said College hath agreed to alienate the said section of land for the uses of the said Province, in consideration of receiving for the same the sum of £1,200 for the purpose of enabling the said Governing Body to extend and otherwise improve the said College buildings: And Whereas it is expedient that such alienation should be effected accordingly:

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

1. The College to convey section in Cathedral Square to the

Superintendent.

It shall be lawful for the said College to convey to the Superindent of the said

Province, for the time being, the said section of land within Cathedral Square,

with the appurtenances, and the said Superintendent is hereby enabled to accept and take such conveyance, and to receive and hold the said section of land to

him and his Successors as a Body Corporate, for the purposes hereinafter provided, as effectually as if the same were vested in him under the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, entituled “The Public Reserves Act, 1854.”

2. On execution of Conveyance, the College to be entitled to the sum of

£1200.

At any time from and after the conveyance of the said section of land to the Superintendent as aforesaid, the said College shall be entitled to a grant of One Thousand Two Hundred Pounds, which sum may be appropriated by the Governing Body of the said College for the purpose of extending and otherwise improving the College buildings; and the Provincial Treasurer is hereby empowered to pay to the Governing Body of the said College the aforesaid sum upon the execution of the said Conveyance.

3. Reserve for highways.

There shall be a highway one chain and a-half in width, with a public carriage way in the centre thereof of not less than fifty feet in width, across the said section in continuation of Colombo-street.

4. Reserve for Cathedral Square.

The remainder of the said section shall be reserved: that portion thereof to the west of the continuation of Colombo street as a site for the erection of a Cathedral in connection with the Church of England, which site shall be

conveyed to the Bishop of Christchurch and his Successors, to be held, in trust, for the uses as aforesaid of the Church of England in the said Province: And the said Superintendent, upon the commencement of the said Cathedral, is hereby empowered and required to convey the aforesaid site accordingly: that portion thereof to the east of the continuation of the said street as an open Square, or for plantations.

5. Title.

This Ordinance shall be entituled and may be cited as “The Cathedral Square

Ordinance, Session X, No. 5.”

Notes.

This Ordinance was passed by the Canterbury Provincial Council on 25th day of

October 1858, and assented to by the Superintendent on 1st November 1858.