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GAZETTE.
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J. L. C. RICHARDSON, Superintendent.
Vol. V.] WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1862. [No. 209.
LEASE OF CLUTHA COAL FIELD.
This Deed made the twenty-sixth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two BETWEEN His Honor John Larkins Cheese Richardson Esquire Superintendent of the Province of Otago in the Colony of New Zealand on behalf of the Government of the said Province of the one part and James George Lewis of Waitutu in the said Province settler of the other part Witnesseth that the said John Larkins Cheese Richardson on the part and behalf of himself as Superintendent of the said Province and his successors in the office of Superintendent and the Government of the said Province for and in consideration of the yearly Rents hereby reserved and of the covenants provisos and agreements herein contained or implied on the part and behalf of the said James George Lewis his heirs executors administrators and assigns to be performed hath demised and leased and by these presents doth demise and lease unto the said James George Lewis his executors administrators and assigns All those four Sections of Land numbered on the Government maps or plans of the said Province 2, 3, 4, and 5 Block 1, Coast District bounded and measuring as follows towards the north north-west by a road line four thousand nine hundred and fifty links towards the east north-east by section numbered 6 of the same block four thousand three hundred links towards the south south-east by a road line five thousand links and towards the west south-west by section numbered 1 of the same Block four thousand one hundred links be the said measurements more or less as the said sections of land hereby demised are with the boundaries thereof delineated on the plan in the margin hereof and therein colored red with liberty power and authority to cultivate or to build upon and use occupy and possess the surface of the whole or any part of the said sections of land and also with liberty power and authority to pursue the mines of coal clay and other produce under in and upon that half next the ocean of the aforesaid sections of land and in and upon such half of the said sections of land to use and exercise all ways and means from time to time during the continuance of this demise
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1862, No 209
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🗺️ Lease of Clutha Coal Field
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey26 June 1862
Coal field, Lease, Clutha, Otago
- John Larkins Cheese Richardson (Esquire), Superintendent of the Province of Otago
- James George Lewis, Settler leasing the Clutha Coal Field
- J. L. C. Richardson, Superintendent