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APPENDIX TO EVIDENCE TAKEN AT AUCKLAND.

No. 1. Three Grants foe St. Stephen's School. (No. 33 of Eeg. No. 4.) Victoria, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, and so forth: To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting. Whereas a School hath been established by the Government at Taurarua, in the suburbs of Auckland, under the superintendence of the Bishop of New Zealand, for the education of children of our subjects of both races, and of children of other poor and destitute persons being inhabitants of the islands in the Pacific Ocean: And whereas it would promote the objects of the said institution to set apart certain pieces or parcels of land in the immediate neighbourhood thereof, for the use and towards the support and maintenance of the same: Now know ye, that we, of our especial grace, for us, our heirs, and successors, do hereby grant unto the said Bishop of New Zealand, and his successors, Bishops of Neiv Zealand, all that allotment, No. twenty-three (23) of section two (2) in the suburbs of Auckland, in the Parish of Waitemata, in the County of Eden, bounded on the north and north-east by the waters of the Waitemata Harbour, on the south by a line one thousand four hundred and ninety-seven (1497) links, and on the west by No. two (2) of the same section five hundred and twelve (512) links, and by No. three (3), five hundred and sixty (560) links, and containing twelve (12) acres and one (1) rood, more or less : All those allotments being No. eighteen (18), nineteen (19), twenty (20), and twenty-one (21) of section two (2), in the suburbs of Auckland, in the Parish of Waitemata, in the County of Eden ; bounded on the north by a line nine hundred and twenty (920) links, and nine hundred and sixty (960) links, on the east by the waters of the Waitemata Harbour, on the south by No. twenty-two (22), one thousand and seventy-four (1074) links, again on the east by No. twenty-two (22), seven hundred and seventy-five (775) links, and again on the south by a road eight hundred and seventy (870) links, and on the west by a line one thousand one hundred and twenty (1120) links, and containing twenty-three (23) acres and twenty-one (21) perches, more or less : All that allotment in the said section two (2) of the suburbs of Auckland, No. twenty three a (23a), being a roadway or roadways which it is desirable should be closed, leading to and from the several allotments before mentioned, having a uniform breadth of one hundred (100) links, and containing four (4) acres two (2) roods thirty (30) perches, more or less, together with the rents, issues, and proceeds thereof, to hold unto the said Bishop of New Zealand and his successors, in trust nevertheless and for the use or towards the support and maintenance of the said school, so long as religious education, industrial training, and instruction in the English language shall be given to youth educated therein or maintained thereat. In testimony whereof we have caused this our grant to be sealed with the seal of our Province of New Ulster. Witness our trusty and well-beloved Sir George Grey, X.C.8., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of our said Province and its Dependencies, at Government House, Auckland, in New Ulster aforesaid, this twenty-third day of September, in the fourteenth year of our reign, and in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty. (1.5.) G. Geey. Entered on record this twenty-fourth day of September, 1850. Andbew Sinclaie, Colonial Secretary and Begistrar.

(No. 33 of Eeg. No. 4.) Victoeia, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, and so forth : To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting: Wheeeas a School hath been established by the Government at Taurarua, in the suburbs of Auckland, under the superintendence of the Bishop of New Zealand, for the education of the children of our subjects of both races, and of children of other poor and destitute persons being inhabitants of the islands in the Pacific Ocean : And whereas the Government have given funds for the establishment and support of the said school, and out of the funds so given the Bight Beverend Father in God George Augustus Lord Bishop of Neiv Zealand hath paid the sum of two hundred and twenty-six pounds one shilling (£226 Is.) for the allotments or parcels of land hereinafter described : Now know ye, that for and in consideration of the sum of two hundred and twenty-six pounds one shilling (£226 Is.) so paid from the aforesaid funds by the said Bishop of New Zealand, we, for us, our heirs and successors, do hereby grant unto the said Bishop of New Zealand and his successors, Bishops of New Zealand, all those allotments or parcels of land in our Province of New Ulster, containing by admeasurement eighteen (18) acres,more or less, situated in the suburbs of Auckland, Parish of Waitemata, County of Eden, and being allotments Nos. fifteen (15), sixteen (16), and seventeen (17) of section No. two (2), bounded on the north by lot twenty-three (23) of the same section seven hundred and forty-seven (747) links, on the east by the waters of the Waitemata Harbour, on the south by a road nine hundred and eighty (980) links, and nine hundred and twenty (920) links, and on the west by a road one thousand three hundred and eighty (1,380) links, together with the rents, issues, and proceeds thereof, to hold unto the said Bishop of New Zealand and his successors, in trust nevertheless and for the use or towards the support and maintenance of the said school, so long as religious education, industrial