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Lunatic Asylum and Gravel-Pit Reserves Sales Ordinance 1860

2. The Lunatic Asylum and Gravel Pit Reserves Sales Ordinance 1860.

Whereas by a Proclamation dated the Twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, under the hand of James Edward FitzGerald, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, two hundred acres, more or less, situated in the Christchurch District, above Riccarton, commencing at the north-west corner of section No. 346, thence along the north- western boundary line of the said section, No. 346, to the north-eastern corner thereof, on the watercourse running into the Heathcote, following up the said watercourse (north-westerly) and in a straight line, altogether a distance of about fifty chains, thence south-westerly, in a line parallel to the aforesaid north- western boundary line of section No. 346, to the high bank of the Heathcote, and returning along the said high bank to the commencing point, subject to a road one chain wide, from the north-western corner of section No. 156, to the north-

eastern corner of section No. 327, and No. 92, in red, on the Map of the Chief Surveyor of he said Province, and twenty acres more or less, situated in the Christchurch district, bounded on the north and west by the Wairarapa stream, on the south-west by section No. 117, about twenty-one chains, and on the north-east by a line from the north-eastern boundary of Section No. 117, to the Wairarapa, and numbered 93, in red, on the Map aforesaid, were, in pursuance of the powers vested in him in that behalf by the 19th Clause of the Regulation for the Sale, Letting, and Occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown in the Province of Canterbury, and upon recommendation of the Provincial Council thereof, reserved for the purpose of a Lunatic Asylum and a gravel-pit

respectively: And Whereas the said reserves are no longer required for the said purposes: And Whereas by an Act of the General Assembly, entituled “The Public Reserves Act, 1854,” it was enacted that all lands so reserved shall become vested in the Superintendent of the Province and his Successors, with full powers to manage and administer the ame: And Whereas it was further enacted that the specific purposes for which any such lands within any Province shall be held may be changed, and the same lands may be appropriated to other and different purposes of public utility for the service of such Province: Provided always, that no land so granted shall be alienated by way of sale or mortgage, or by lease, for any longer term than three years, except by the authoritty of an Act or Ordinance of the Provincial Council of such Province to be passed in that behalf: And Whereas it hath become necessary to make other provision for the safe custody, care, and medical treatment of persons of unsound mind and infirm bodily health:

Be it therefore enacted by the Superintendent, with the advice and consent of the

Provincial Council thereof, as follows:

1. Superintendent to sell Lunatic Asylum and Gravel-pit Reserves by public auction.

It shall be lawful for the Superintendent, with the advice and consentt of the Executive Council, to alienate by way of sale by public auction, the whole or any part of such land in one or more parcels: Provided that no part of such land shall be sold for a less sum than at the rate of Five Pounds per acre.

2. Conditions of sale.

All sales hereby authorised to be made shall be made by the Superintendent and

Provincial Council of the said Province shall direct.

3. Proceeds, how to be appropriated.

The proceeds of all such sales as aforesaid shall be paid to the Provincial Treasurer for the public use of the Province, and shall be appropriated in such manner as the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the said Province shall direct.

4. Title.

This Ordinance shall be entituled and may be cited as “The Lunatic Asylum and

Gravel-pit Reserves Sales Ordinance, Session XIII., No. 2.”

Notes.

This Ordinance was passed by the Canterbury Provincial Council on 6th July

1860, and reserved for the assent of the Governor. It was assented to by the Governor, and notified in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 26, 18th August 1860, page 142.