Clutha River Trust Reserves Bill.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 7, 20 August 1874, Page 3

Clutha River Trust Reserves Bill.

A 811-L ENTITULED

An Act to authorize the vesting in a Board of Conservators of certain Lands in the Province of Otago in Trust for conserving , the Banks of the Clutha River, and improving the Navigation thereof. Whereas by a resolution of the' Provincial Councial of the Province of Otago, bearing date the fourth day of May one thousand eight hundred and seventy, purporting to be passed under the authority of Sfctiou sixty-two of " The Orago Waete Lands Act, 1866,. "the said Council recommended that the- lands described in $he Schedule hereto should be reserved for the purpose of erecting and maintaining works to be constructed and maintained by the Board of Conservators of the District of the Clutba River when constituted under "The Hawke's Bay and Marlborough Rivers Act, 1868:" And whereas, in pursuance ;of eiich reeoljition, t&e Peputy Superintendent of the ■ Province of Otago did. by notice under his" hand, dated the eleveuth day of July, one thousand eight, hundred and seventy, and published-in the Otago Provincial Government ,, ' Gazette* on the twenty-seventh day. of July, one - thousand eight hundred arid seventy, declare that he had made and dedicated the . said lands described in the said Schedule hereto for the purpose above mentioned: And wbeaeas it is expedient that the siid lands should be vested in a Board of Conservators: Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New ; Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows r— 1. The Short Title of this Act shall be " The Clutha River Trust Reserves Act, 1874." '.■...'■ 2. Aβ soon as the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago shall have passed an Ordinance constituting a Board of Conservators for the District of Clutha River, the said Board of Conservators shall hold the lands described in the Schedule hereto upon trust for such purposes as shall be specified in the Ordinance aforesaid. 3. If any lands reserved under this Act are at the time of the reservation thereof subject to any license or lease for pastoral or other purposes, such lands shall be dealt with under " The Otago Waste Lands Act, 1872," and any Act amending the name, subject to such license or lease.; and such license or lease shall not be affected thereby, but the rents license or lease shall be paid to the aaid Board of Conservators m such > manner as may be specified in the Ordinance ■ constituting the said Board.' 4. It ehaU be lawful for the Superintend dent of the said province, on the recommendation of the Provincial Council of the said province, by Proclamation to declare that any such lands set aside under this Act as * endowments aforesaid shall be opened for sale or lease under any provisions of " The Otago Waste Lands Act, J 872," and any. other Acts amending the same, or for' sale or lease under any provisions of " The Gold Fields Act, 1866, J, and any other Acts;' amending the same ; and from .and after the time fixed for the purpose in such Proclamation such lands may be-sojd .ox leased accordingly : Provided always that a 1 money c received from the-sale or lease of any such lands shall be paid and accounted for by the Receiver of Land Revenue to the Superintendent of ,the province, who shall invest such moneys so received in Provincial or General Government securities in trust for the purposes for which the land so sold had been set apart previous to sale.

•schedule. All that area-in the 'Province-of Otago, containing' by* estimation fifty thousand two hundred (50,200) acre*, .more or less, being runs numbered respectively 129,258 and part of run numbered 90 on the man of the south-eastern-pastoral district of the, .said "Province deposited in the Provincial Survey. Office. Dunedin, bounded by a line proceeding from the "Wnipahi Stream due east to Three Stones,;fifty* thousand (50,000) links; thence along the western boundaries of runs .24a...72, and. 122, ninety-two .thousand (02,000) links;'thence along the southern "boundary of the said-run.l 29. and.the.eastern, boundary of 162, one hundred and four thousand (104,000 ). links i thentie 1 along: tb?'northern , ;and ..eastern boundaries of run 162 and the northern boundary of run 251 to' run 13 ?, ninety-three thousand (93,000) links; thence along the northeastern boundary of run 132, eight thousand (8000) . links;; thence along the southeastern bouDdary of run-102, thirty-two thousand-five hundred (32,500) linss; and thence in a southerly direction along the .Waipahi Stream.-elev«m thpusand (H,000) links tp the starting point, " ~"*';'" *'