LAWRENCE ATHENAEUM AND MECHANICS' INSTITUTE RESERVE LEADING- ORDINANCE. 1870.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 121, 2 June 1870, Page 6

LAWRENCE ATHENAEUM AND MECHANICS' INSTITUTE RESERVE LEADING- ORDINANCE. 1870.

A Bill to be entituled " An Ordinance to authorise the Superintendent of the Province of Otago to Lease the Lawrence Athenaeum and Mechanics 7 Institute Reserve. Whereas the parcel of land described in the Schedule to this Ordinance is vested in the Superintendent of the Province of Otago and his successors subject to the provisions of certain Acts passed by the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled "Public Reserves Act 1854" and the "Public Reserves Act Amendment Act 1862 " And whereas it is expedient that the Superintendent should be authorised to lease the said lands described in the said Schedule for a longer period than three years : Be it therefore enacted by the Superintendent of the Province of Otago with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof as follows :—: — 1. This Ordinance shall be intituled and may be cited and referred to as the "Lawrence Athenaeum and Mechanics' Institute Reserve Leasing Ordinance, 1870." 2. It shall be lawful for the Superintendent and he is hereby authorised and empowered from time to time to demise and lease the said parcel of land described in the said Schedule hereto or any part thereof at such annual rents and for such term of years not exceeding terms of ninety-nine years from the making thereof as he may think fit. 3. All leases made or granted under this Ordinance shall be by deed signed by the Superintendent and sealed with the Public Seal of the said Province as by the "Publics ßeserves Act 1854" is provided.

! 4. All monies arising from the rents issues and profits of the said parcel of shall be paid over to the Committee of Management for the time being of the Lawrence Athenaeum and Mechanics' Institute or other the person or persons for the time being having the management thereof and shull be applied and disposed of for the best interest and advantage of the said Athensaum and Institute. Schedule above referred to. All that piece or parcel of land situate and being in the Town of Lawrence and being secI tious numbered respectively ten (10) and eleven (11) block forty-one (XLI) on the Map of the said Town containing by admeasurement seventeen (17) poles more or less bounded towards the north by Crown Lands fifty (50) linka towards the north-east by Derwent street one hundred and fifty-four (154) links towards the south by Eoss Place one hundred and seventy (170) links and towards the west by section numbered nine (9) one hundred (100) links.