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Mechanics Institute Timaru Reserve Ordinance 1869

The Mechanics Institute Timaru Reserve Ordinance 1869.

Whereas by a Grant from the Crown bearing date the first day of September

1869 the parcel of land described in the Schedule to this Ordinance annexed was conveyed and assured unto and to the use of William Rolleston Esq. Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury successors and assigns for ever subject to the provisions of "The Public Reserves Act 1858 " upon trust for the purposes of Government Offices Gaol and Public Pound: And Whereas it is expedient that the specific purposes for which said parcel of land was conveyed should be changed and that the same be vested in the Trustees of the Mechanics' Institute Timaru purposes of the said Institute:

Be it therefore enacted by the Superintendent of the said Province of Canterbury with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof pursuant to Clause

8 of "The Public Reserves Act 1858” as follows:

1. Land described in Schedule to be reserved for Mechanics' Institute at Timaru.

That the the specific purposes for which the parcel of land described in the Schedule to this Ordinance annexed has been conveyed shall be and the same are hereby changed and that henceforth the said parcel of land shall be reserved for the purposes of the said Mechanics' Institute at Timaru.

2. Land to be vested in Trustees.

That the said parcel of land described in the said Schedule shall be and the same is hereby transferred to and vested in Belfield Woollcombe and Thomas Williamson Hall and their successors trustees for the time being of the Mechanics' Institute Timaru in trust for the purposes of the said Institute.

3. Superintendent may grant and convey land to Trustees.

That it shall be lawful for the Superintendent in Council to grant and convey to the said Belfield Woollcombe and Thomas Williamson Hall the said parcel of land hereinbefore declared to be vested in them and their successors Trustees for the time being of the said Institute upon trust for the purposes of the said Institute and for no other purpose whatsoever.

Schedule referred to in the foregoing Ordinance.

All that piece or parcel of land containing one rood more or Iess situate in the Town of Timaru being the eastern part of Reserve No. 203 in red and numbered131 on the Map of the Chief Surveyor setting out and describing the Town of Timaru being bounded on the north by North street a distance of one hundred links on the east by Section No. 130 a distance of two hundred and fifty links on the South by Section No. 143 a distance of one hundred links and on the West by Section 132 being also part of the before-mentioned Reserve No. 203 a distance of two hundred and fifty links.