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Cathedral Square Ordinance Amendment Ordinance 1859

4. The Cathedral Square Amendment Ordinance 1859.

Whereas an Ordinance was passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury, entituled “The Cathedral Square Ordinance, Session XI., No. 5 :” And Whereas it is expedient that the said Ordinance should be amended, and that a certain Section thereof should be repealed and other provision made in lieu thereof:

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

1. Repealing Clause.

Section 4 in the said recited Ordinance is hereby repealed.

2. Purposes for which Cathedral Square shall be reserved.

The portions of the Sections situate in the City of Christchurch, and known as “Cathedral Square,” having respectively a frontage on the highway forming a continuation of Colombo-street, shall be reserved: that portion thereof to the east of the said highway, 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 purpose aforesaid; and the said Superintendent, upon the commencement of the building of the

said Cathedral, is hereby empowered and required to convey the said site accordingly; that portion thereof to the west of the said highway, as a public square or for plantations.

3. Title.

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

Ordinance Amendment Ordinance, Session XI., No. 4.”

Notes.

This Ordinance was passed by the Canterbury Provincial Council on the 18th

October 1859, and assented to by the Superintendent on 4th November.