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SCHEDULE—continued.

as valid and effectual to all intents and purposes as
if the said road or part of the land over which the
right of road was to be taken had been specifically
described and laid down as aforesaid on the said grant
before the execution of the same, any law or practice
to the contrary notwithstanding; and it is also
thereby enacted that all such reservations made
before or after the passing of the said Act shall be
valid and effectual to all intents and purposes; pro-
vided always that the right of taking a road through
any section shall only be exercised within five years
after the issue of the grant, and, with regard to grants
issued before the passing of the said Act, within
three years from the coming into operation of the
said Act; and it is also thereby enacted that, in any
case where allowances have been or shall be made in
land or remission of purchase-money in respect of
such reservation of road, the road to be taken shall
in no case exceed the amount of land allowed or the
amount of the purchase-money whereof shall have
been or shall be remitted as aforesaid; and it is also
thereby enacted that, whenever such road or roads
shall have been taken and laid down in manner afore-
said on the land comprised in any such grant by any
person legally authorized in that behalf, the land
comprised in that behalf, the land comprised in that
date of the laying down of such road, to be all the
land therein described to be granted, with the excep-
tion of the part thereof taken for such road, which
part shall be deemed to be vested in Her Majesty,
her heirs and successors :

And whereas it is expedient that a fit and proper
person should be authorized to take and lay down
roads over the lands specified in the Schedule hereto:
Now, therefore, I, Sir Hercules George Robert
Robinson, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand,
in exercise and pursuance of all powers and au-
thorities enabling me in this behalf, do hereby
authorize

WALTER HALLETT, Esquire,
Surveyor, of Napier, to take and lay down roads
over the lands specified in the Schedule hereto, and
for that purpose to exercise all such powers as by
the said Act may be exercised by a person legally
authorized in that behalf under the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this twenty-third day of
September, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-nine.

JAMES W. THOMSON,
Minister of Lands.

Authorizing the taking and laying down of Roads in
the Hawke's Bay Provincial District.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
intituled "The Crown Grants Act, 1866," it
is enacted that, whenever roads or rights of roads
have been or hereafter may be reserved in any Crown
grants, but such roads or the particular part or por-
tions of the land comprised in the grant over which
the road is to be or may be taken have not been or
may not be specifically described in the body of the
grant and laid down from survey on the plan in the
margin thereof, or indorsed thereon or attached
thereto, such Crown grants, if otherwise duly and
legally executed, shall be and be taken to have been
As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this twenty-third day of
September, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-nine.

JAMES W. THOMSON,
Minister of Lands.