SUB-TREASURER OF THE COLONY OF NEW ZEALAND,

OR OF CERTAIN PROVINCES OR DISTRICTS WITHIN THE SAME.

And whereas it is expedient that a certain portion of the said Revenue should be made payable solely to the Treasurer of the Province of Otago for the public service thereof, and that he should be authorised to grant and issue licenses, certificates, or other documents, for the exercise of any privilege or power within the Province, which by law are issuable by any Treasurer or Sub-Treasurer of the Colony, or of any Province or District thereof:

Be it enacted by the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, as follows:—

1. All sums of money collected within the Province by any Treasurer or Sub-Treasurer for the public service of the Colony of New Zealand, or of any part thereof, and all sums of money, except as hereinafter provided, collected within the Province by any other person or persons authorised by law to collect the same, and which are, or may at any time hereafter become by law payable such person or persons to any Treasurer or Sub-Treasurer for the public service of the Colony, or of any part thereof, shall, from and after the thirtieth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, be payable solely to the Provincial Treasurer of the Province, or of any Provincial Sub-Treasurer duly authorised and appointed by the Superintendent, to the use of Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, for the public service of the Province.

2. It shall be lawful for the Provincial Treasurer and Sub-Treasurers to receive, and they are hereby empowered to recover and receive, all such sums of money as aforesaid, and to give receipts for the same, and to grant and issue any license, certificate, or other document for the exercise of any privilege or power within the Province which by law is issuable by the Treasurer or Sub-Treasurers of the Colony of New Zealand, or of certain Provinces or Districts within the same, for or in respect of payment of certain of such sums of money. And such receipts shall be a full and entire discharge to all such persons for all such sums of money as shall by virtue of this Ordinance be paid to the Provincial Treasurer or Sub-Treasurers, and such licenses, certificates, and documents shall entitle the persons to whom or in whose favor they are issued, to exercise within the limits of the Province the privilege or power thereby granted as fully as heretofore they have done when issued by the Treasurer or Sub-Treasurers of the Colony, or of certain Provinces or Districts as aforesaid.

3. Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall apply to any sum or sums of money collected, or which may at any time hereafter be collected, by, through, or on account of any of the public departments named in the Schedule to this Ordinance annexed, or by any public officer of the same.

W. Cargill,
Superintendent.

Passed the Provincial Council, and assented to by His Honor the Superintendent, upon the tenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.

Robert Chapman,
Clerk of Council.

SCHEDULE.

The Department of Customs.
The Supreme Court.
The Resident Magistrate’s Court.
The Post-office.
The Land Department.

DUNEDIN PUBLIC LANDS ORDINANCE

In the Seventeenth year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria.
Session I., No. 5.

ANALYSIS.

Preamble.
Terms of Purchase of Land in Settlement of Otago.
10 and 11 Vict., c. 112.

1. Certain Lands reserved for public purposes declared public property.
2. Board of Commissioners to have the management thereof.
3. Constitution and qualification of Members of the Board.
4. Mode of election.
5. Three to go out of office yearly, and three to be elected in their stead.
6. Vacancies occurring within the year to be temporarily filled up.
7. Quorum.
8. Bye-Laws to be made.
9. Duty of Commissioners as Conservators of said Lands.
10. Penalty for trespass.
11. Proceedings for recovery thereof.
12. Leases of said Lands for periods not exceeding 19 years.
13. Grants of said lands.
14. Water frontages.
15. Centre area of Moray Place not to be built on.
16. Town Belt.
17. Rents to be paid and accounted for by Treasurer.
18. How to be applied.
19. Money to be paid under warrant of Superintendent.
20. Accounts to be paid, audited, and published.
21. Commencement of Ordinance.

An Ordinance for Protecting, Leasing, and Improving the Lands in and about Dunedin, reserved for Public purposes, and Promoting those purposes.

WHEREAS certain Terms of Purchase of Land within the Settlement of Otago had been issued by the New Zealand Company before the fourth day of July 1850, and the said Terms were in force on that day as contracts between the New Zealand Company and the Association of Lay Members of the Free Church of Scotland, constituted for promoting the said Settlement, commonly called the Otago Association: And whereas by the provisions of the Act of the Session of Parliament held in the tenth and eleventh years of her Majesty, chapter one hundred and twelve, the lands of the said Company in New Zealand reverted to and became vested in Her Majesty as part of the demesne lands of the Crown, subject nevertheless to any contract then subsisting in regard to any of the said lands. And whereas by the aforesaid Terms of Purchase it was agreed that the lands comprising the Settlement of Otago should, under the arrangements therein set forth, and subject to such amendments as should be made by the said Company and the said Association concurrently, be sold to persons to be brought forward or approved by the said Association, and that the Association, including those persons, should carry out the enterprise on their own principles, and as far as possible in their name: And whereas it was part of the said arrangements, and by the aforesaid Terms of Purchase expressly stipulated that in laying out the chief Town of the Settlement, named Dunedin, due provision should be made for the public purposes...