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5. The Diversion of Roads Special Ordinance No. 4 1872.
[16th January 1872.]
Whereas by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Highways and Watercourses Diversion Act 1858” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of any Province with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof by any Law or Ordinance to be made or ordained for that purpose to authorise and empower the Superintendent to divert or stop up any public street road highway or thoroughfare in any such Province and also to exchange the land over which any such public street road highway or thoroughfare was laid out or passed And also that it should be lawful for the Governor in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty to make and execute Crown Grants of any land which should be so exchanged or disposed of:
And whereas by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Provincial Council Powers Extension Act 1865” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent and Provincial Council of any Province and notwithstanding the restriction contained in the Tenth Sub-section of the Nineteenth Section of the Constitution Act to ordain or pass any Law or Ordinance which but for such restriction might have been ordained or passed by such Superintendent and Council affecting any part of the Waste Lands of the Crown within the Province which then was or thereafter should be a public street road highway or thoroughfare:
And whereas it is for the public benefit that the parcel of land mentioned
and described in the Schedule A to this Ordinance should
become a Public Highway
in lieu of the parcels of land mentioned and described in the Schedule B to this
Ordinance and that the said
last mentioned parcels of land should cease to be a
public road and should be granted in exchange for the first-mentioned parcel
of
land in manner hereinafter mentioned:
Be it therefore enacted by the Superintendent of the said Province with the
advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof as
follows:
1. Public road passing over parcels of land described in Schedule B shall be stopped up.
When and so soon as the parcel of land mentioned and described in the
Schedule A hereto shall have been conveyed to the Superintendent
and his
successors for a public road the same shall be and remain for ever a public
highway and the public road passing over the
parcels of land mentioned and
described in the Schedule B hereto shall be stopped up.
2. Parcels of land described in Schedule B shall be granted to person conveying parcel of land described in Schedule A.
When and so soon as the parcel of land mentioned and described in the
Schedule A hereto has been so conveyed the parcels of land mentioned
and
described in the Schedule B hereto shall be granted in fee to the person
conveying the said first-mentioned parcel of land in
exchange for the land
conveyed by him.
3. Title.
This Ordinance shall be intituled and may be cited as “The Diversion of
Roads Special Ordinance No. 4, 1872.”
Schedules. Schedule A.
All that piece or parcel of land one chain wide containing by admeasurement
three acres and ten perches more or less being part of
rural section No.12
bounded on the northward by the road reserved 25 feet wide along the southern
bank of the main stream of the
Waimairi river on the southward by the northern
bank of the stream which forms part of the western boundary of section No. 163
and
also by the road reserved along the said stream 50 links wide on the
eastward by a straight line about 30 chains 10 links from the
north-western
corner of the aforesaid section No. 163 to a point on the northern-side of the
road reserved 50 links wide along the
stream forming part of the western
boundary of section No. 163 the said point being distant about 23 chains 70
links from the south-eastern
corner of section No. 12 and on the westward by a
straight line parallel to and one chain distant from the last described
boundary.
Schedule B.
All that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement four acres one
rood and thirty-seven perches more or less being that
portion of the road 25
feet wide situate on the southern bank of the main stream of the Waimairi and
forming the northern boundary
of rural section No. 12 extending north-westerly
from the proposed road through that section a distance of about 118 chains to
the
western boundary of the said section.
All that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement one acre three
roods more or less being that portion of the road 50 links
wide forming the
eastern boundary of rural section No.12 extending in a north-easterly direction
from the proposed road through that
section a distance of about 35 chains to
within 25 feet of the southern bank of the Waimairi river.
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