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Classical School Reserves Ordinance 1875

8. Classical Schools Reserves Ordinance 1875 [16^th August, 1875.]

^{Whereas the parcels of land more particularly described in the Schedule hereto} have under and by virtue of “The Public Reserves Act 1854” and “The Public Reserves Act Amendment Act 1862” been granted by the Governor of New Zealand in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty to the Superintendent of Canterbury and his successors upon trust for the Public Service of the said Province as an endowment for a Classical School And whereas by “The Public Reserves Act Amendment Act 1862” it is provided that the Superintendent and Provincial Council of any Province may by any Act or Ordinance to be from time to time 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 shall be transferred to and vested in and held by any Corporation Commission or other person or persons having corporate succession to be named in such Act or Ordinance in trust for the like or for any other public purpose to be specified and declared in such Act or 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 provisions and conditions as should in such Act or Ordinance be expressed or declared And whereas by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of Canterbury intituled “The Canterbury College Ordinance 1873” the Canterbury College was constituted a body corporate with perpetual succession: And whereas it is expedient that the said parcels of land should be transferred to and vested in and held by the Canterbury College in trust for the purposes hereinafter declared in the manner and with the powers of lease arrangement and disposition over the same and over all rents issues profits and proceeds thereof hereinafter expressed and contained:

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

1. Parcels of land described in Schedule shall be transferred to and vested in the Canterbury College.

The said parcels of land described in the Schedule hereto shall be transferred to and vested in and shall be held by the Canterbury and College their successors in trust for the purposes of superior education and subject to the powers of lease

management and disposition over the same and over the rents issues profits and proceeds thereof expressed and declared in “The Canterbury College Ordinance

1873.”

2. Superintendent empowered to convey said lands.

It shall be lawful for the Superintendent to execute and make any conveyance or other assurance for transferring to and vesting in the Canterbury College and their successors the lands described in the said Schedule hereto and every or any part or parts thereof respectively.

3. Title.

This Ordinance shall be intituled and may be cited as “The Classical School Reserves Ordinance 1875.”