PROCLAMATION

By the Honorable JOHN PARKIN TAYLOR,
Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Southland.

WHEREAS, by grant from the Crown, bearing date the 20th day of June, in the year 1862, issued in pursuance of the "Public Reserves Act, 1854," Her Majesty the Queen did thereby grant unto James Alexander Robertson Menzies, Superintendent of the Province of Southland, and his successors, Superintendents of the said Province,

All that parcel of land in the Province of Southland, in the Colony of New Zealand, situate in the Jacobs River Hundred, containing by admeasurement eight (8) acres one (1) rood and nine (9) poles, be the same more or less, being Cemetery Reserve, Section numbered thirty-nine (39), of the Block numbered six (VI), of the said Hundred, bounded towards the north-east by a public road two hundred (200) links, towards the east by a public road two thousand two hundred (2200) links, towards the west by Section number four (4) one thousand one hundred and sixty (1160) links, and towards the west by a public road line, as the same is delineated on the plan drawn in the margin thereof, with all the right and appurtenances thereto belonging, to hold the same unto the said James Alexander Robertson Menzies, and his successors Superintendents of the Province of Southland, in trust for the interment of the dead;

And whereas, by the Fourth Section of the "Cemeteries Ordinance, 1863," of the Local Legislature of the said Province of Southland, it is enacted that, in case persons of any religious denomination shall, on behalf of such denomination, apply to the Superintendent for a portion of a Burial Ground, authorised to be reserved under the said Ordinance to be set apart for the exclusive use of any such denomination, the Superintendent, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, may set apart a portion thereof accordingly;

And whereas certain persons, members of the United Church of England and Ireland, have, on behalf of the said religious denomination, applied to me to set apart the portion hereinafter described of the said parcel of land for the exclusive use of the said denomination, as a place for the interment of the dead: Now therefore, in pursuance of the power in me vested in that behalf, and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, I do hereby proclaim and declare that from and after the day of the date hereof, the piece or parcel of land described in the Schedule hereunder written, and being portion of the said parcel of land so granted as aforesaid, is hereby set apart for the exclusive use of members of the United Church of England and Ireland for the burial of the dead.

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province of Southland, this twenty-ninth day of November, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

JOHN P. TAYLOR,
Superintendent of the Province of Southland.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND CEMETERY RESERVE.

SCHEDULE.

All that piece or parcel of land in the Jacob’s River Hundred, Province of Southland, containing by admeasurement two (2) acres three (3) roods and twenty-seven (27) poles, more or less, being Section thirty-nine A (89A), Block six (VI), of the aforesaid Hundred, bounded towards the north by Section thirty-nine (39), seven hundred and fifty (750) links; towards the east by a public road, seven hundred (700) links; towards the south-west by Section numbered four (4), one thousand one hundred and sixty (1160) links; and towards the west by the Road Reserve on the east bank of the Aparima River, a distance of two hundred and thirty (230) links.

Superintendent’s Office,
Southland, 30th November, 1865.

IT is hereby notified, that the portions of Ground specified as below have been made Town and Sheep Reserves in the Province of Southland, and that the Bushes enumerated under Timber Reserves have been set apart for the purpose