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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

shall be therein described by reference to such map
so to be deposited as aforesaid : And whereas, in
recited Act, the Minister for Public Works has
caused a map of all such lands as have been taken or
purchased for that portion of the line of railway
from Wellington to Masterton, in the Province of
Wellington, which is situated between the thirteen
miles seventy-eight chains peg and the twenty-six
miles seventy-eight chains peg on the said line of
railway, to be prepared as by the said in part recited
Act is required, and the said map is authenticated by
the signature of the Honorable Edward Richardson,
as such Minister for Public Works : And whereas
the said Minister, on or about the twenty-second day
of February past, caused the said map to be deposited
in the office of the Registrar of Deeds at Wellington
aforesaid :

which 'a railway authorized by the said Acts, or any
Act to be passed in pursuance thereof, has been vested
or may hereafter be constructed, should be vested in
Her Majesty the Queen, it shall be lawful for the
Governor or the Minister to cause a map of all such
lands as may have been taken or purchased under
any portion of any railway as aforesaid, or any portion of
such railway, to be prepared. Such map shall fully
and accurately set forth the pieces or parcels of land
have been purchased or taken, or are required to be
railway, and shall be authenticated by the signature
of the Minister, or by that of some person to be
appointed by him for that purpose from time to time.
And it is also enacted that the Minister shall cause
the map to be deposited in the office of the Registrar
of Deeds for the Registration District within which
the lands shall be situated ; or if the lands set forth
on any such map shall extend beyond the boundaries
of any one district, then such map shall be prepared
in so many parts as shall be requisite to delineate the
land within each such district ; and the map, or the
parts thereof, as aforesaid, shall be deposited in the
office of the Registrar of Deeds in each Registration
District where the lands shall be situated to which
such map relates ; but for the purposes of this Act,
only be deemed to be one map : And whereas by the
said Act it is further enacted that it shall thereupon be
lawful for the Governor from time to time, by Pro-
clamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to declare that
the lands set forth in such map, or any of them, have
been taken or acquired for the purposes of the rail-
way in respect of which the same shall have been
taken or acquired under the said Acts, or any Act
authorizing the same to be taken or acquired ; and
in such Proclamation the lands intended to be affected
shall be therein described by reference to such map
so to be deposited as aforesaid : And whereas, in
part recited Act, the Minister for Public Works has
caused a map of all such lands as have been taken
or purchased for the branch line of railway from
Kaiapoi to Eyretou, in the Province of Canterbury,
which said branch line is situated between a point
in Rural Section numbered 468 in the Eyretou Road
District, in the Province of Canterbury, and the
north-west corner of Rural Section numbered 9598,
in the West Eyretou Road District, in the same
Province, to be prepared as by the said in part
recited Act is required ; and the said map is au-
thenticated by the signature of the Honorable
Edward Richardson, as such Minister for Public
Works : And whereas the said Minister, on or about
the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-six, caused the said map to be deposited
in the office of the Registrar of Deeds at Christchurch,
in the Province of Canterbury aforesaid :

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
powers and authority vested in me by the herein-
before in part recited Act, do hereby proclaim and
declare that the lands set forth in the said map so
deposited as aforesaid have been taken or acquired
for the purposes of the hereinbefore mentioned rail-
way from Wellington to Masterton, which said rail-
way is, by "The Railways Act, 1871," authorized to
be constructed and maintained under the provisions
of "The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1870,"
and the several Acts amending the same : And in
further pursuance and exercise of the said power and
authority, I do hereby proclaim and declare that the
lands intended to be affected by this Proclamation
are described and delineated in the said map so
deposited as aforesaid.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Most Honorable George Augustus Con-
stantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl
of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and
Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, in the
County of York, in the Peerage of the
United Kingdom ; and Baron Mulgrave
of New Ross, in the County of Wexford,
in the Peerage of Ireland ; a Member of
Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy
Council ; Knight Commander of the Most
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George; Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony
of New Zealand and its Dependencies,
and Vice-Admiral of the same ; and
issued under the Seal of the said Colony,
at the Government House at Auckland,
this seventh day of April, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-six.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Proclaiming Deposit of the Memorial Plan of certain
Lands taken for purposes of the Branch Line of
Railway from Kaiapoi to Eyretou.

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

W
HEREAS by "The Immigration and Public
Works Act, 1872," it is, among other things,
enacted that, whenever it shall become necessary that
any land which the Governor or the Minister is, by
or under the Acts therein mentioned, or any Act
authorizing the construction of any railway by the
Governor or Minister, authorized to purchase or take
for such railway, or any portion thereof on or over

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
power and authority vested in me by the herein-
before in part recited Act, do hereby proclaim and
declare that the lands set forth in the said map so
deposited as aforesaid have been taken or acquired
for the purposes of the said branch line of railway
from Kaiapoi to Eyretou, which said railway is,
by "The Railways Act, 1871," "The Railways Act, 1873,"
and "The Railways Act, 1873," authorized to
be constructed and maintained under the provisions
of "The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1870,"
and the several Acts amending the same :
And in further pursuance and exercise of the said
power and authority, I do hereby proclaim and declare