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17. The Diversion of Roads Special No 6 Ordinance 1875
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:
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 hereafter should be a public street road highway or thoroughfare:
And whereas it is for the public benefit that parcels of land described in
the first column of the Schedule hereto should become a
public highway in lieu
of the parcels of land described in the second column of the said Schedule and
that the last-mentioned parcels
of land should cease to be a public road and
should be granted in exchange for the first-mentioned parcels of land in the
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:
Be it therefore enacted by the Superintendent of the said Province with the
advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof as
follows:
1. When lands described in first column of Schedule have been conveyed to Superintendent the public highway shall be stopped up.
When and so soon as all the parcels of land described in the first column of
the Schedule 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 highway passing over the
parcels of land described in the
second column of the said Schedule shall be stopped up.
2. When lands described in first column of Schedule have been so conveyed lands described in second column shall be granted in fee to persons conveying same.
When and so soon as all the parcels of land described in the first column of
the said Schedule shall have been so transferred as aforesaid
the parcel of land
described in the second column of the said Schedule shall be granted in fee to
the person or persons transferring
the parcel of land described in the first
column in exchange for the land transferred by him.
3. Title.
This Ordinance shall be intituled and may be cited as “The Diversion of
Roads Special Ordinance No. 6, 1875.”
Schedule.
Cust Road District.
Wm. Morrison.
First Column.
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Second Column.
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Description of land proposed to be dedicated as a public road
All that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement three roods
and six perches more or less being part of rural section
No. 7762 bounded on the
south- eastward by section No. 7321 on the northward by the road forming the
southern boundary of Sections
Nos.
7678 and 7762 on the south-westward by the road forming the north-eastern
boundary of section No. 7746 and on the north-westward by
a line parallel to the
south-eastern boundary and one chain distant therefrom and more particularly
delineated and described by the
plan hereunto annexed and coloured red
thereon.
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Description of Road to be abandoned
All that piece or parcel of land one chain wide containing by admeasurement
one acre and eighteen perches more or less being that
portion of the road
forming the southern boundary of sections Nos. 7678 and 7762 bounded on the
northward and southward by section
No. 7762 on the westward by the road forming
the north- eastern boundary of section No. 7746
and on the eastward by a line in continuation of the south-eastern boundary
of the latter section and more particularly delineated
and described by the plan
hereunto annexed and coloured green thereon.
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