New Zealand Gazette – 1856 – No. 32

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Title. AN ACT to enable the Governor to sell certain allotments of Land in the City
of Auckland and apply the proceeds towards erecting Public Offices.
(Assented to 16th August, 1856.)

Preamble.
W HEREAS several allotments or parcels of land situate in the
City of Auckland have been set apart and are now used as
the sites of Public Offices for some of the departments of the
General Government of New Zealand. And whereas it is
desirable to enable the Governor to sell and dispose of the said
allotments or parcels of land and the buildings erected thereon, and
to apply the proceeds towar is building public offices on more con-
venient sites.

Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zea-
land as follows :

Governor authorised
to sell allotments of
land described in
Schedule.

It shall be lawful for the Governor, or other officer for the
time being lawfully Administering the Government of New Zealand,
whenever he shall think fit, to sell and dispose of all or any of
the said allotments or parcels of land more particularly mentioned
and described in the Schedule to this Act annexed, or any part
thereof, by public auction, either altogether or in lots, and to make
and execute in the name and on behalf of her Majesty, under the
public Seal of the said Colony, any grant or grants to the purchaser
or purchasers thereof, and every such grant shall be deemed to convey
an estate in fee simple, free from incumbrances and without liability
on the part of the purchaser or purchasers to see to the application
of the purchase money.

Money to be applied
towards erecting
Public Offices for
General Government.
2. The money to arise from every such sale shall be applied,
first, in payment of any expenses attending the same, and secondly in
or towards the erection of Public Offices on some convenient site
or sites in the City of Auckland, for the General Government of
New Zealand, and any surplus shall be disposed of as directed by
the General Assembly of New Zealand.

Short title.
3. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the "Public
Offices Act, 1856."

SCHEDULE.

All that Allotment or Parcel of Land situate in Princes-street, in the City of
Auckland, and being Allotment No 1 of Section No 7, of the said City, con-
taining 1 rood 7 perches
All that other Parcel of Land situate in Princes-street in the City of Auck-
land and being the eastern half of Allotment No 17A of Section No 4, of the
said City, containing 13 perches.
All that other Parcel of Land in the City of Auckland, having a frontage to
High-street of 57 feet and a frontage to Chancery-street of 67 feet 6 inches,
and being a part of Allotment No 4 of Section 4, of the said City, and which
said Parcel of Land with the Buildings thereon was purchased for or on behalf
of the Government of New Zealand for Public Offices of certain departments of
the Government.