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Wakefield Road Alteration Ordinance 1854

5. Wakefield Road Alteration Ordinance 1854.

An Ordinance to Divert a Public Road reserved along a portion of the North

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

1. Present Road may be stopped when the Chief Surveyor has certified that a new Road has been made passable, &c.

From and after any day within a period of one year from the passing of this Ordinance, when the said Edward Gibbon Wakefield, his Heirs or Assigns shall have set out and made passable by horses, drays, and all ordinary traffic, a new Road, thirty-three feet wide, through and over the said allotment numbered 6,

according to the Plan set forth in the Schedule to this Ordinance annexed, and from and after any day within such period aforesaid, when the Chief Surveyor of Government in the Province shall, by notice in the Provincial Government Gazette, certify under his hand that such Road has been so made passable, and that the diversion of the Road from the waterside will not be injurious to the public interests, such new Road shall thenceforth be and become a Public Road, and the Public Road reserved along the North Bank of the River Avon, so far as such Road forms the Southern Boundary of the said allotment numbered 6, that is to say, from a point about six chains to the westward of the North-west corner of the Christchurch Town Reserve, running thence along the Southern Boundary of the said allotment, and extending to a certain Accommodation Road lying between the said allotment and the rural allotment numbered 7, in the said Christchurch District, shall and may be stopped up by the said Edward Gibbon Wakefield, His Heirs or Assigns, and the said Road shall thenceforth be secured to the sole use and behoof of the said Edward Gibbon Wakefield Edward Gibbon Wakefield, his Heirs and Assigns for ever.

2. Title.

This Ordinance shall be entituled and may be cited as the "Wakefield Road

Alteration Ordinance, Session II., No. 5."

Notes.

This Ordinance was passed by the Canterbury Provincial Council on 21st March

1854, and assented to by the Superintendent on 29th March.