AKAROA PUBLIC LIBRARY SITE.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 123, 21 September 1877, Page 2

AKAROA PUBLIC LIBRARY SITE.

The following is the text of a bill introduced by Mr Montgomery in connection with the Akaroa Library Site : —Whereas by deed bearing date the sixth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, Daniel Watkins, Esquire, of Akaroa, Banks Peninsula, in the Province of Canterbury, conveyed to the Reverend William Joaiah Ayimer, Clerk in Holy Orders ; James Daniel Gai wood, Esquire; and Stephen Watkins, Esquire, all of Akaroa; and hereinafter called " the Trustees," an allotment of land (described in the Schedule hereto) in ' Akaroa, fronting Jollie-street, as the site of a Public Library: And- whereas it would be for the interest of the said trust that the Trustees Bhould be empowered to exchange portions of the said land for other adjoining land : Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

1. The Short Title of this Act shall be " The Akaroa Public Library Site Act, 1877."

2. The said Trustees of the Akaroa Public Library for the time being, or their successors or assigns, may exchange any portions of the lands held by them as a site tor a Public Library under the said recited conveyance, for other adjoining lands, not being in the whole less in area than those portions given in exchange by the said Trustees, and having at least an equal frontage to Jollie-street. 3. The aaid Trustees, or their successors or assigns, may execute all such conveyances as may be requisite for effectuating such exchange, and upon the execution of such conveyances the lands comprised therein shall be discharged from the trust expressed in the hereinbefore recited conveyance, and all lands conveyed in exchange to the said Trustees under the provisions of this Act shall be held by the said Trustees upon the same trust as is declared by the hereinbefore recited conveyance. SCHEDULE. All that parcel of land part of the Rural Section numbered 61 on the map or plan of the Chief Surveyor of the said Province of Canterbury, setting out and describing the rural lands on Banks Peninsula aforesaid, commencing at a point on the north-east side,of Jollie-street, which said point is distant sixty-six feet in a straight line from the junction of Jollie-

street and Beach-road ; thence in a Southwesterly direction, and fronting Jolliestreet aforesaid, a distance of forty-four feet; thence in a Southeasterly...direction, in a straight line parallel to the • nwrth? eastern boundary of the &aid section, a distance of one hnndred feet ; therioe in a North-easterly direction, and parallel to Jol lie-street' aforesid, a distance of fortyfour feet : and thence in a North-westerly direction, a distance of one hundred feet, to the commencing point; as' the same is delineated on the plan drawn on the conveyance.