LAND CLAIMANTS' ORDINANCE AMENDMENT ACT, 1855.

IN THE NINETEENTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA. SESSION 3, No. 2.

ANALYSIS. 1 ) ltle - 2. Duty mentioned in repealed Clause to be Preamble. | performed by Colonial Secretary of New 1. Repeal of Clause 16 of New Zealand Com- Zealand. pany's Land Claimants' Ordinance, Sea- 3. Short title. aion, XI No. 15.

An Act to amend the New Zealand Company's Land Claimants Ordinance, Session XI, No. 15. [Assented to September 15th, 1855.] w lIEREAS by an Ordinance made and passed by the Go-vexnor-hi-Chief ot New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, entitled "An Ordinance to ascertain the contracts and engagements entered into hy the New Zealand Company for the disposal of certain Lands in the Islands of New Zealand, and to provide for the completion of such contracts and engagements by the Colonial Government, after reciting that in certain cases various dealings had been had between the persons claiming title to lands in regard to which the land orders thereinbefore mentioned related, and that for the purpose of preventing injury and inconvenience to persons who might have dealt with such Claimants in respect < i the lards so claimed by them, it might be expedient that the legal estate in the land to be comprised in any such grant as

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