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French Magazine Reserve Ordinance 1857

2. The French Magazine Reserve Ordinance 1857

Whereas by a certain Grant, bearing date the Fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, issued by his Excellency the Governor of New Zealand, under the authority of an Act of the General Assembly, entituled " The Public Reserves Act, 1854," a certain piece of land in the town of Akaroa, commonly known and described in the said Grant as " The Old French Magazine Reserve," is conveyed to the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury and his Successors, to be held by them, in trust, as a site for buildings for general purposes of the Provincial Government: And Whereas it is expedient that the

said land should be sold, and that the proceeds should be applied to the erection of certain public buildings in the said town:

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

1. Superintendent to sell the Magazine Reserve by Auction.

It shall be lawful for the Superintendent of the said Province to sell the said land, with all the buildings thereon, for the highest sum which may be obtained for the same by public auction, of which two months' notice shall be given.

2. Proceeds to be expended on erecting Custom House and Court House and Gaol.

The proceeds arising from such sale shall be expended one-half in the cost of erecting a Custom House, and the other half in the cost of erecting a Court House and a Gaol within the said town.

3. Title.

This Ordinance shall be entitled and may be cited as the "French Magazine

Reserve Ordinance, Session VIII., No 2."

Notes.

This Ordinance was passed by the Canterbury Provincial Council on 28th May,

1857, and assented by the Superintendent on 11th June 1857. It was left to its operation by the Governor on 23rd July 1857.