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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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SCHEDULE -continued.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, Knight
Grand Cross 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, at the Government House, at Wellington, this
sixteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-nine.

JOHN BRYCE.

Authorizing the taking and laying down of Roads in case exceed the amount of land allowed or the amount
the Wellington Provincial District.
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 aforesaid on the
land comprised in any such grant by any person
legally authorized in that behalf, the land conveyed by
the grant shall be deemed, from the date of the lay-
ing down of such road, to be all the land therein de-
scribed to be granted, with the exception of the part
thereof taken for such road, which part shall be
deemed to be vested in Her Majesty, her heirs and
successors:

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

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 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

And whereas it is expedient that a fit and proper
person should be authorized to take and lay down
the roads over the lands specified in the Schedule
hereto:

Now, therefore, I, Hercules George Robert Robin-
son, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
exercise and pursuance of all powers and authorities
enabling me in this behalf, do hereby authorize

WILLIAM SNOWDEN, Esquire,

Assistant Surveyor, of Wellington, 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.

THE Survey Districts of Paikaraki, Belmont, Port
Nicholson, Rimutaka, Akatarama, and Pencarrow,