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Sefton Church and Cemetery Ordinance 1867

2. The Sefton Church and Cemetery Reserve Ordinance 1867.

Analysis. Preamble.

1. Land described to be site for Church of England.

2. Title.

Whereas by Crown Grant bearing date the Eighteenth day of September One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five all that parcel of land in the Province of Canterbury in the Colony of New Zealand situate in the Ashley District containing five acres more or less commencing at the junction of the road forming the north- east boundary of section 2726 with the Upper Sefton Road following along the latter road in a north-easterly direction a distance of five chains and extending back south-easterly and adjoining the road first mentioned a distance of ten chains in a rectangular block and numbered 201 in red on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the said Province of Canterbury setting out and describing the rural land in the Ashley District aforesaid as the same is delineated on the plan drawn in the margin thereof with all the rights and appurtenances thereunto belonging was granted unto the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury and his successors in trust as a site for a Church and School in connection with the nited Church of England and Ireland in New Zealand:

And whereas by the Public Reserves Act 1854 under and by virtue of which the aforesaid grant was made it is enacted that the specific purposes by which any lands granted under the said Act within any Province should be held might be charged and the same lands might be appropriated to other and different purposes of public utility for the public services of such Province:

And whereas it has become necessary to alter the purposes for which the aforesaid land is held as hereinafter described.

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

1. Land described to be site for Church of England.

The specific purposes of public utility for which the lands hereinbefore described are held shall be and are hereby changed and such lands shall be henceforth held by the Superintendent of the said Province and his successors in trust for

and for the purposes of a site for a Church and Cemetery in connection with the

United Church of England and Ireland in New Zealand.

2. Title.

This Ordinance shall be entituled and may be cited as “The Sefton Church and

Cemetery Reserve Ordinance 1867.”

Notes.

This Ordinance of the Canterbury Provincial Council was passed on the 28th

June 1867 and assented to by the Superintendent on 2nd July.

Henry John Tancred was Speaker, Henry Bacon Quin, Clerk of Council, and

William Sefton Moorhouse was Superintendent.