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Masterton and Greytown Lands Management Act 1871 Amendment Act 1877

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Masterton Trustees may convey lands.

Trusts to be executed.

Lands for roads.

Trustees may lease lands.

Greytown trusts not affected.

Masterton and Greytown Lands Management Act 1871 Amendment Act 1877

Local Act		1877 No 62
Date of assent		29 November 1877

	Title
	Preamble.

An Act to amend “The Masterton and Greytown Lands Management Act, 1871.”

Preamble.

WHEREAS it is expedient to amend “The Masterton and Greytown Lands Management Act, 1871” (hereinafter called “the said Act),” and to make different provisions for the management and disposal of certain portions of the reserves situate in the Township of Masterton, in the Provincial District of Wellington, defined in the Second Schedule to the said Act:

Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1 Short Title.

The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Masterton and Greytown Lands Management Act 1871 Amendment Act, 1877.”

2 Interpretation.

This Act shall be read as part of and incorporated with “The Masterton and Greytown Lands Management Act, 1871,” and the term “Masterton Trustees” shall have the same interpretation as that conveyed to it by the twenty-fifth section of “The Masterton and Greytown Lands Management Act, 1871.”

3 Masterton Trustees may convey lands.

After the passing of this Act it shall be lawful for the Masterton Trustees to do all or any one of the three following acts:—

(a.)

To execute a deed of conveyance of one acre of the lands vested in them as such Trustees, and no more, to be held in trust for a site for a Hospital. The said conveyance shall be made to four persons, being residents and ratepayers in the Borough of Masterton, whose names shall be set forth in the said conveyance, and upon the execution of any such deed the persons whose names are therein mentioned shall become a body corporate, with power to hold land on trust, with perpetual succession and with a common seal, under the title of “The Masterton Hospital Trustees.” In the event of any vacancy occurring from any cause whatever in the body of “The Masterton Hospital Trustees,” to whom the conveyance may have been granted, the ratepayers of the Borough of Masterton shall elect another ratepayer to fill the vacancy, and such election shall be conducted under the provisions of “The Regulation of Local Elections Act, 1876.”

(b.)

To execute a deed of conveyance of one acre of the lands vested in them as such Trustees, and no more, to be held in trust for a site for a Public School. The said conveyance shall be made to four persons, being residents and ratepayers in the Borough of Masterton, whose names shall be set forth in the said conveyance, and upon the execution of any such deed the persons therein mentioned shall become a body corporate, with power to hold land on trust, with perpetual succession and with a common seal, under the title of “The Masterton Public School Trustees.” In the event of any vacancy occurring from any cause whatever in the body of “The Masterton Public School Trustees,” to whom the conveyance may have been granted, the ratepayers of the Borough of Masterton shall elect another ratepayer to fill the vacancy, and such election shall be conducted under the provisions of “The Regulation of Local Elections Act, 1876.”

(c.)

To execute a deed of conveyance of one acre of the lands vested in them as such Trustees, and no more, to be held in trust for a site for a Public Library. The said conveyance shall be made to four persons, being residents and ratepayers in the Borough of Masterton, whose names shall be set forth in the said conveyance, and upon the execution of any such deed the persons therein mentioned shall become a body corporate, with power to hold land on trust, with perpetual succession and with a common seal, under the title of “The Masterton Public Library Trustees.” In the event of any vacancy occurring from any cause whatever in the body of “The Masterton Public Library Trustees,” to whom the conveyance may have been granted, the ratepayers of the Borough of Masterton shall elect another ratepayer to fill the vacancy, and such election shall be conducted under the provisions of “The Regulation of Local Elections Act, 1876.”

4 Trusts to be executed.

In each of the deeds of conveyance referred to in the last preceding clause the trusts and purposes upon which the deed is executed shall be fully set forth and stated upon the face of the deed, and in the event of any such trust or purposes being violated, or of any portion of the lands so set apart as aforesaid being used for any other purposes than those set forth in the deeds of conveyance aforesaid, the deed in each case shall become null and void, and the title to the fee-simple of the land shall revert to the Masterton Trustees.

5 Lands for roads.

At any time after the passing of this Act it shall be lawful for the Masterton Trustees to convey to the Corporation of the’ Borough of Masterton any portion of the lands abutting on any public road, vested in them as such Trustees, for the purpose of widening such road: Provided that the width of such land shall not exceed thirty-three feet on any one point.

After the execution of any such conveyance the land shall vest in the Corporation of the Borough of Masterton, in the same manner as if it had been taken under the provisions of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1876.”

6 Trustees may lease lands.

It shall be lawful for “The Masterton Hospital Trustees,” or for “The Masterton Public School Trustees,” or for “The Masterton Public Library Trustees,” to lease the several acres of land conveyed to them respectively, for any term not exceeding twenty-one years: Provided that such leases shall be let either by public auction or by public tender, to be duly advertised in the local newspapers and in the New Zealand Gazette, as to the said Trustees in each particular instance may seem fit.

7 Greytown trusts not affected.

Nothing in this Act shall in any way affect the lands and hereditaments vested in the Greytown Trustees under the said Act, nor the status and powers of the said Grey town Trustees under the provisions of the said Act, in any manner whatsoever.

Masterton and Greytown Lands Management Act 1871 Amendment Act 1877