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Heathcote Bridge Ordinance 1867

1. The Heathcote Bridges Ordinance 1867.

Analysis. Preamble.

1. Bridge may be built.

2. Wilson’s Bridge may be maintained.

3. Such Bridges to be free.

4. Title.

Whereas by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand enituled “The Provincial Councils Powers Extension Act 1863” it is enacted that whenever any Ordinance shall be passed by any Provincial Council for the purpose of authorising the making or carrying on of any work of utility to the public or to the inhabitants of some particular district such law may so far as may be necessary for the making or carrying on of such work of utility affect any Public Street Road or Highway or the bed of any River Stream or Creek although the same respectively may be the lands of the Crown.

And whereas it is for the benefit of the public and of the inhabitants of the Heathcote Road District that the Road Board of the Heathcote District and their successors should have power to construct and maintain a Bridge over the River

Heathcote at the place hereinafter mentioned Andd also from henceforth to maintain as Bridges certain other Bridges already erected over he said River.

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

1. Bridge may be built.

It shall be lawful for the Road Board of the Heathcote District out of their own proper revenues to erect and thenceforth maintain a Bridge in the bed of and

over and across the River Heathcote from where the road between rural sections

157 and 96 meets the river to a road laid out through rural section 64 and intended to be continued to the Hills Road and such Bridge shall be constructed subject to the approval of the Provincial Government.

2. Wilson’s Bridge may be maintained.

It shall be lawful for the Road Board of the Heathcote District out of their own proper revenues to erect and thenceforth maintain a Bridge in the bed of and

over and across the River Heathcote from where the road between rural sections

157 and 96 meets the river to a road laid out through rural section 64 and intended to be continued to the Hills Road and such Bridge shall be constructed subject to the approval of the Provincial Government.

3. Such Bridges to be free.

All the above Bridges shall be and remain public free Bridges.

4. Title.

This Ordinance shall be entituled and may be cited as “The Heathcote Bridges

Ordinance 1867.

Notes.

This Ordinance was passed by the Canterbury Provincial Council on the 10th of

July 1867, and assented to by the Superintendent, W.S. Moorhouse, on 11th July

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