CANTERBURY PUBLIC DOMAINS.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1093, 31 December 1877, Page 3

CANTERBURY PUBLIC DOMAINS.

By proclamation in the “Gazette” of Thursday, December 13th, the powers conferred by the Canterbury Public Domains Act, 1872, are delegated by the Governor, in respect of the lands mentioned in the schedule thereto attached, to the following gentlemen, who shall be known as the Canterbury Public Domains Board-Hugh Percy Murray-Aynslcy, John Hall, Leonard Harper, Richard James Strachan Harman, Edward William Stafford, William Rolleston. Their appointment is subject to the following stipulations : 1. None of the powers delegated shall be exercised in respect of the ground occupied by the building known as the Canterbury Museum, or any building pertaining thereto which have been or may hereafter be erected in connection therewith by the authority of the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury or Governor, or to such enclosures in connection therewith as may be approved by the Board and the Governor. 2. The trustees of the said Musjulu, and their officers and servants, shall at all times

have the right of ingress and egress to and from the said Museum at such times as shall be determined by the said trustees.

The Board shall meet at such times and places as shall be from time to time appointed by the chairman, or when it shall be convened by him, and the business shall be conducted under such regulations as shall be determined on by the Board. 4. The Board shall keep proper minutes and records of its proceedings, and full accounts of its receipts and expenditure, and a yearly statement of the same, together with a general report of its proceedings, shall be forwarded to the Governor once in every year. 5. This delegat ion of powers to the Board shall not in any way affect any lease or contract now in force between the Superintendent and any person or persons in respect of any portion of the lands named in the schedule to the Canterbury Public Domains Act, 1872, nor any agreement between the said Superintendent and any person or persona in respect of the dedication of any portion of the said lands to any purpose of public recreation or amusement. 6. This alteration shall not destroy or affect the validity of instruments executed or acts done during the subsistence of delegation made by the herein-before recited proclamation of the sth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.