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ments, and shall exonerate the Company, their Successors and Assigns, from all Responsibility as to the Disposition of such Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, or any of them, or any other Matter or Thing consequent on or resulting from such Conveyance; but, notwithstanding any Rule of Law or Equity to the contrary prevailing in the Colony of New Zealand or elsewhere, the Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments comprised in any such Conveyance shall continue and be subject to such equitable Estates Charges, and Liens, if any, created by the Purchaser or Purchasers named in the Land Order or Contract to which the same shall relate, or any Person deriving Title from, through, or under him, her, or them, as at the Date of such Conveyance shall be subsisting or be then or thereafter capable of taking effect, and the Rights and Interests of the Parties interested as or through the Purchaser or Purchasers named in such Land Order or Contract (inter se) shall remain unaffected thereby; and the Costs of and incident to every such Conveyance, and the Proof of such Title, shall be borne by the Person or Persons requiring the Conveyance; provided that in every Case in which the Conveyance shall not be made to the Purchaser or Purchasers named in the Land Order or Contract to which the same shall relate, a Minute of the Evidence of the Title upon which the Conveyance shall have been made shall be entered in a Book to be kept for that Purpose by the Company, as regards Conveyances made in England at their only or chief Office in the City of London or Westminster for the Time being, and as regards Conveyances to be made in New Zealand in a Book to be kept for that Purpose by such Nominee or Nominees as aforesaid, to which Books respectively any Person interested or claiming to be interested shall personally, or by Agent or Attorney, at all seasonable Times have Access, and shall have free Liberty to inspect the same, and to take Extracts therefrom, without Fee or Reward: Provided also, that nothing herein contained shall authorise a Conveyance by the Company or their Trustees, Agents, or Attorneys, upon the Execution of the Conveyance, the Land Order or Contract, and Duplicate thereof, issued by the Company to which the Conveyance shall refer, or who shall not account for the Absence or Loss thereof to the satisfaction, as to a Conveyance executed in England of the Secretary for the time being of the Company, and as to a Conveyance executed in New Zealand of such Nominee or Nominees as aforesaid.

named in any Land Order or Contract, who may have absolutely transferred his Interest thereunder, and of which Transfer the conveying Party shall have express Notice at the Time of the Conveyance, or to any Purchaser or Purchasers named in any Land Order or Contract who shall not produce and deliver up to said Letters Patent mentioned: And whereas it is expedient to alter and amend some of the Provisions of the said recited Act, and to provide for the better and more effective Regulation of the Proceedings of the said Association, and to confer additional Powers upon the said Association with respect to the Land in the said

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 14th Jan., 1852.

HIS EXCELLENCY the Governor-in-Chief has been pleased to direct that the following “Act to alter and amend an Act empowering the Canterbury Association to dispose of certain Lands in New Zealand,” be published for general information.

By His Excellency’s Command,

ALFRED DOMETT,
Colonial Secretary.

ANNO DECIMO QUARTO AND DECIMO QUINTO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.

CAP. LXXXIV.

“An Act to alter and amend an Act empowering the Canterbury Association to dispose of certain Lands in New Zealand.

7th August, 1851.

WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Seventy, which said Act recites certain Letters Patent dated the thirteenth Day of November in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, incorporating the said Association, and also a certain Agreement dated the First Day of December One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, between the said Association and the New Zealand Company: And whereas by the said Letters Patent the said Association are empowered from Time to Time to make Byelaws, and alter and revoke the same, as in the said Letters Patent mentioned: And whereas it is expedient to alter and amend some of the Provisions of the said recited Act, and to provide for the better and more effective Regulation of the Proceedings of the said Association, and to confer additional Powers upon the said Association with respect to the Land in the said