Roxburgh Reserves Act 1876

Public Act		1876 No 37
Date of assent		14 October 1876

	Title
	Preamble.
1	Short Title.
2	Corporation shall value improvements and sell land.
3	Corporation may convey.
	Schedule

An Act to provide for the Disposing of a certain portion of a Reserve at Roxburgh, in the Province of Otago.

Preamble.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of Otago, No. 515, intituled “The Roxburgh Reserve Management Ordinance, 1875,” all the lands described in the • Schedule thereto and to this Act were vested in and transferred to the Corporation of the Town of Roxburgh, to be held by the said Corporation and its successors in trust for purposes of recreation for the inhabitants of the Town of Roxburgh: And whereas prior to the grant of the said lands mentioned in the said recited Ordinance, certain persons had, under the provisions of the gold fields laws in force in the Province of Otago, become possessed of certain portions of the said lands, and had erected buildings thereon and expended large sums of money in improvements: And whereas no provision has by law been made for granting such persons compensation, or for allowing them to become purchasers of the said lands: And whereas it is expedient and right that justice should be done to such persons:

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 Roxburgh Reserves Act, 1876.”

2 Corporation shall value improvements and sell land.

The Corporation of the Town of Roxburgh shall appoint some competent person or persons to value the buildings and all other improvements effected prior to the passing of this Act by any person or persons in occupation of any portion of the lands described in the Schedule to this Act, who have, by virtue of a business license, a miner’s right, or other title under the gold fields laws, occupied the said lands, and shall either pay to such persons the amount of such valuation within six months after the passing of this Act, or shall, subject to such conditions of sale as the said Corporation shall fix, sell the said portions of the said lands so occupied, by public auction, at an upset price of three pounds per acre, with the value of the buildings and improvements added.

3 Corporation may convey.

The Corporation of the Town of Roxburgh may convey or transfer the said portions of the said lands so sold in payment of the purchase money and valuation, and shall, immediately after such conveyance, pay the valuation to the person or persons entitled thereto, and shall expend the sum received from the sale of the land, excluding the said valuation, in the improvements of the remaining part of the said lands.

Schedule

All that area in the Province of Otago, Colony of New Zealand, containing by admeasurement three hundred (300) acres, more or less, situate in the Teviot District, being Section numbered 33, Block II., on the map of the said district. Bounded towards the North by Crown lands and the Town of Roxburgh, four thousand nine hundred (4900) links; towards the East by the Clutha River, nine thousand one hundred (9100) links; towards the South by Crown lands, one thousand (1000) links, and by part of Section numbered 31, Block II., Teviot District, six hundred and ninety-six (696) links; and towards the West by a road line, one thousand two hundred and thirty (1230) links, also by Crown lands, six thousand nine hundred and sixty (6960) links, and intersected by a road line one hundred (100) links wide, also by two waterraces.

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