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Title. AN ACT to amend the New Zealand Company's Land Claimants
Ordinance, Session XI, No. 15.
[Assented to September 15th, 1855.]
Preamble.
WHEREAS by an Ordinance made and passed by the Go-
vernor-in-Chief of New Zealand, with the advice and
consent of the Legislative Council thereof, entitled "An Or-
dinance to ascertain the contracts and engagements entered into
by the New Zealand Company for the disposal of certain Lands
in the Islands of New Zealand, and to provide for the comple-
tion of such contracts and engagements by the Colonial Go-
vernment," 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
of the lands so claimed by them, it might be expedient that the
legal estate in the land to be comprised in any such grant as
therein mentioned, should, in certain cases, be deemed to have
been in the grantee prior to the date of such grant, it was
enacted that it should be lawful for the Commissioner who
should hear and decide any such claim, at his discretion to report
that for the purpose aforesaid, it would be expedient that such
legal estate should be deemed to have been in such grantee,
from and after a date to be named by such Claimant in that
behalf. And whereas it was by the sixteenth section of the said
Ordinance provided, that in every such case it should be the duty
of the Colonial Secretary for the Province of New Munster, before
issuing any such grant, to indorse thereon the date so reported
as aforesaid, and the legal estate in the land to be comprised
in such grant, should be deemed to have been in the
grantee thereof, from the date so to be endorsed as afore-
said. And whereas by virtue of a certain Act of Parlia-
ment made and passed in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of
the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, entitled "An Act
to grant a representative Constitution to the Colony of New
Zealand," the office of Colonial Secretary for the
Province of New Munster ceased to exist. And
whereas great injury and inconvenience have been sustained
by grantees in certain cases, by reason of there being no person
duly authorised to make the endorsement by the said recited
Ordinance required to be made by the Colonial Secretary for
the Province of New Munster. And whereas it is expedient that
provisions should be made for remedying and preventing such
injury and inconvenience,
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly of
New Zealand as follows :
Repeal of Clause 16
of New Zealand Com-
pany's Land Claimants'
Ordinance, Session
XI, No. 15.
- That clause 16 of the said recited Ordinance shall be
and the same is hereby repealed.
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