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For the purpose of preserving evidence of every such choice Evidence of appoint-
and appointment of a new Trustee or new Trustees and of the ment how to be pre-
Person or Persons in whom such Property shall so from time to served.
time become legally vested, every such choice and appointment of
a new Trustee or new Trustees shall be made to appear by some
Deed under the hand and seal of the Chairman for the time being
of the Meeting at which such choice and appointment shall be made;
and shall be executed in the presence of such Meeting, and attested
by two or more credible witnesses, which Deed may be in the form
or to the effect of the Schedule to this Act annexed, or as near
thereto as circumstances will allow, and may be given and shall be
received as Evidence in all Courts and Proceedings in the same
manner and on the like Proof as Deeds; and shall be Evidence of
the Truth of the several Matters and Things therein contained. -
And whereas certain Grants from the Crown of Land in Grants to be deemed
the Colony of New Zealand have been made and issued, and certain and taken to have con-
conveyances and assurances of Land in the said Colony have been veyed, &c., the fee
signed and executed, granting, conveying and assuring, the several simple of the several
allotments or parcels of Land in the said grants, conveyances, and allotments of land
assurances particularly described, to the office bearers of different mentioned therein
Religious Denominations and their successors. And whereas doubts from the date of such
have arisen as to the estate which in Law has been granted, con- grants.
veyed, or assured by the said grants, conveyances, and assurances
respectively, and it is expedient that the said doubts should be set
at rest: Be it therefore further enacted by the General Assembly
of New Zealand as follows:
Whenever any such grant, conveyance, or other assurance
shall have been made and issued, or signed and executed, other
than to or in favour of a Corporation, sole or aggregate, the same
shall be deemed and taken to have granted, conveyed, and assured
from the days of the date thereof respectively unto the person or
persons designated in such grant, conveyance, or assurance, his or
their heirs and assigns the fee simple in the allotments of Land
therein respectively described and purported to be granted, con-
veyed, and assured, subject nevertheless to the trusts if any in
the said grants, conveyances, and assurances respectively set forth
concerning the same.
- And whereas with regard to the Lands in the said grants, Trustees empowered
conveyances and assurances, described, and also to the site of to convey Trusts &c,.
Chapels Ministers' Dwellings and Schools of the Religious Socie- heirs and assigns
ties denominated Wesleyan Methodists, it is expedient to make under Trusts of model
provision for creating a succession of properly qualified Trustees deeds.
according to the usages of the said Society, and for defining the
manner in which the Trusts upon which they are respectively held
shall be fulfilled: Be it therefore further enacted by the said
General Assembly:
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NZ Gazette 1856, No 30
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Continuation of Act regarding Religious and Educational Property Titles
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🏛️ Governance & Central Administration6 August 1856
Legislation, Trustees, Crown Grants, Land conveyance, Religious property, Wesleyan Methodists, Fee simple