Kaiapoi Native Industrial School Grant Act 1870
Kaiapoi Native Industrial School Grant Act 1870
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Kaiapoi Native Industrial School Grant Act 1870
Kaiapoi Native Industrial School Grant Act 1870
Public Act |
1870 No 69 |
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Date of assent |
12 September 1870 |
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Contents
An Act to enable the Governor to accept a surrender of the Grant of certain Land at Kaiapoi in the Province of Canterbury made under “The Native Reserves Act 1856”
upon Trust for an Industrial School and to authorize Grants to be made of such Lands upon other Trusts.
Preamble.
WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule having been set apart by certain Aboriginal Natives entitled thereto for an Industrial School in connection with the Church of England for the benefit of such Aboriginal Natives the Governor of New Zealand for the time being on the sixth day of November one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six with the assent of the said Aboriginal Natives ascertained in the manner prescribed by “The Native Reserves Act 1856”
(hereinafter called “the said Act”
) did grant the said land to the Bishop of Christchurch and his successors who was nominated by the said Aboriginal Natives to be such grantee And whereas it is expedient that a portion of the said land not exceeding sixteen acres should be held by the said Bishop and his successors upon trust as to one part thereof for the site of a Church in connection with the branch of the Church of England in New Zealand but for the benefit of the same Aboriginal Natives for whose benefit the said grant was made as aforesaid and as to the residue of the said portion as a site for a house for the use of the Clergyman appointed to hold services therein and as glebe land for such Clergyman to be occupied in connection therewith And whereas it is expedient that the residue of the said land should be appropriated to the purpose of a Native School under “The Native Schools Act 1867”
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 Kaiapoi Native Industrial School Grant Act 1870.”
2 Bishop of Christchurch may surrender land to the Queen.
The Bishop of the branch of the Church of England in New Zealand designated the Bishop of Christchurch may with the assent of the said Aboriginal Natives ascertained in the manner prescribed by “The Natives Reserves Act 1856”
as amended by the Act of 1862 surrender the land described in the Schedule hereto to Her Majesty free and discharged of the trusts specified therein.
3 Governor may grant portion to be agreed on not exceeding sixteen acres to Bishop in trust for a Church &c.
If the said land be surrendered as aforesaid the Governor may with the assent of the said Aboriginal Natives ascertained in the manner prescribed by “The Natives Reserves Act 1856”
as amended by the Act of 1862 cause a Crown Grant of a portion of the said land not exceeding sixteen acres to be made to the said Bishop and his successors upon trust for a site for a Church in connection with the said branch of the Church of England and for the benefit of those Aboriginal Natives for whose benefit the said recited grant was made and as and for a site for a School and a house for the use of the Clergyman appointed to perform services in the said Church and for glebe land to be used and occupied with such house The piece of land to be granted under this section shall be such piece not exceeding sixteen acres as shall be agreed upon by some person appointed by the Governor for the purpose and the said Bishop and the Crown Grant thereof under this section shall have the effect and operation of a grant under the sixteenth section of “The Native Reserves Act 1856”
and be held by the said Bishop subject thereto The residue of the said land shall be vested by the Crown Grant in two or more Trustees to be nominated by the Governor under the eighth section of “The Native Schools Act 1867”
and the said piece of land shall for all purposes be deemed to be a site for a Native School under the said last-mentioned Act for the district constituted or to be hereafter constituted under the said last-mentioned Act in which the said piece of land is as if it had been founded by the inhabitants of such district.
Schedule
All that piece of land situate at Kaiapoi, Canterbury, bounded as hereinafter described, that is to say twenty (20) acres of land commencing eighteen chains and five links south of a point at which the intersection of a line drawn from Trig. Pole No. 14 with one drawn from the Maori boundary post marked H forms an angle of one hundred and fifty-five degrees fifteen minutes; thence running Easterly a distance of one thousand three hundred and thirty-five links; thence Southerly, and at a right-angle with the last line a distance of fifteen chains; thence Westerly one thousand three hundred and thirty-five links; and from thence returning to the first point.
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Kaiapoi Native Industrial School Grant Act 1870
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