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Province with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof
by any Law or Ordinance to be made or ordained for that purpose to
authorise and empower the Superintendent to divert or stop up any
public street road highway or thoroughfare in any such Province and
also to exchange the land over which any such public street road
highway or thoroughfare was laid out or passed And also that it
should be lawful for the Governor in the name and on behalf of Her
Majesty to make and execute Crown Grants of any land which should
be so sold exchanged or disposed of.
And whereas by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand
intituled “The Provincial Council Powers Extension Act 1865” it is
enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent and Provincial
Council of any Province and notwithstanding the restriction contained
in the Tenth Sub-section of the Nineteenth Section of the Constitution
Act to ordain or pass any Law or Ordinance which but for such restriction
might have been ordained or passed by such Superintendent and
Council affecting any part of the Waste Lands of the Crown within the
Province which then was or thereafter should be a public street road
highway or thoroughfare.
And whereas it is for the public benefit that the parcel of land
mentioned and described in the Schedule A to this Ordinance should
become a Public Highway in lieu of the parcels of land mentioned and
described in the Schedule B to this Ordinance and that the said last-
mentioned parcels of land should cease to be a public road and should
be granted in exchange for the first-mentioned parcel of land in manner
hereinafter mentioned.
Be it therefore enacted by the Superintendent of the said Province
with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof as
follows:
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When and so soon as the parcel of land mentioned and described
in the Schedule A hereto shall have been conveyed to the Superintendent
and his successors for a public road the same shall be and remain
for ever a public highway and the public road passing over the parcels
of land mentioned and described in the Schedule B hereto shall be
stopped up. -
When and so soon as the parcel of land mentioned and described
in the Schedule A hereto has been so conveyed the parcels of land
mentioned and described in the Schedule B hereto shall be granted in
fee to the person conveying the said first-mentioned parcel of land in
exchange for the land conveyed by him. -
This Ordinance shall be intituled and may be cited as “The
Diversion of Roads Special Ordinance No. 187”.
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