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Educational Reserves Leasing Ordinance No. 2 1875

21. The Educational Reserves Leasing Ordinance, No. 2, 1875.

[16^th August, 1875.]

Whereas by several Crown Grants bearing the dates respectively as contained in the Schedule hereto all those parcels of land described in the said Crown Grants and delineated in the plans drawn in the margin thereof with all the rights and appurtenances thereto belonging were granted unto the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury and his successors in the Trust as an Endowment for Schools of Technical Science and Agriculture and for the promotion of Superior Education and whereas it is expedient that certain resolutions of the Provincial Council authorising the Superintendent to lease to the present holders of depasturing licenses the said Reserves upon the same terms and conditions as the same were held under the provisions of the Waste Lands Regulations for the Province of Canterbury:

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. Superintendent may lease lands to the holders of the depasturing licenses over the same at time Reserves were made.

It shall be lawful for the Superintendent to lease the said lands now included in the Crown Grants mentioned in the Schedule hereto to the persons their executors administrators or assigns respectively who at the time such reserves were made were the holders of the depasturing licenses under the said Waste Lands Regulations upon the same terms and conditions as the same were held under the provisions of the said Waste Lands Regulations and also hereafter further to lease the same upon such terms as may by law be fixed as the terms upon which depasturing licenses shall be held from the year 1880.

2. Superintendent shall reserve rights of mortgagees or other persons beneficially interested in right to depasturing stock.

The Superintendent shall in all such leases respectively reserve rights if any of all mortgagees or other persons who may for the time being interested by transfer or otherwise in the right to depasture stock on such lands under the provisions of the said Waste Lands Regulations aforesaid.

3. Superintendent may convey Reserves 1357 and 1577 to the Canterbury

College.

When and as soon as the leases of the said lands shall have been duly signed and executed it shall be lawful for the Superintendent to convey and assure the said lands included in Reserves numbered respectively 1357 and 1577 unto the Canterbury College incorporated under and by virtue of “The Canterbury College Ordinance 1873” subject to the leases thereof so to be granted as aforesaid to be held by the said College upon trust for the several purposes respectively referred to in the Crown Grants of the said Reserves 1357 and 1577 Provided always that it shall be obligatory upon the said College to sell and dispose of the said lands in parcels at the price and upon the same terms and conditions as those upon which the Waste Lands of tile Crown in the Province of Canterbury are now open to sale pursuant to the Canterbury Waste Lands Regulations to all and every person and persons applying to purchase the same and that the moneys realised by every such sale shall be held and applied by the said College upon and for the same purposes respectively as are declared in the Crown Grant or Grants of the lands of which the portions respectively sold form part.

4. Title.

This Ordinance shall be intituled and may be cited as “The Educational Reserves Leasing. Ordinance, No. 2, 1875.”

_Schedule.

Number of Reserve as delineated in red on the Map of the Chief Surveyor of the Province of Canterbury.

District Acreage Date of Crown

Grant.

1357

1574

1575

1576

₁₅₇₇

Ashburton... ... Waitangi...... Timaru... ... ... Timaru... ... ... Upper Waimakariri ... ...

53,000
61,000
34,950
5,000

_64,640

13th April 1875
13th April 1875
13th April 1875
13th April 1875

_{13th April 1875}