✨ Proclamation on Railway Construction
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work so done by such persons, according to the prices for work and materials, at the time of performing such contract, current in the district: Provided always that the following rules shall be observed in this behalf—
(1.) No greater amount of land than two hundred and fifty acres shall, under the provisions of this clause, be granted to any person under any such contract, unless in payment of work for which a vote has been passed by the Provincial Council.
(2.) No greater amount of land than one thousand acres in the aggregate, shall, in any one year, be granted under the provisions of this clause without the special recommendation of the Provincial Council, confirmed by the Governor in Council by a Proclamation to be issued in the New Zealand Gazette.
And whereas the Provincial Council of Southland, on the eighteenth day of December, 1865, resolved “That in the opinion of this Council it is desirable that steps should be taken forthwith for the purpose of completing and opening for traffic the Bluff Harbor and Invercargill Railway,” and by such resolution recommended 1st, “That a contract for such works as might be requisite for that purpose should be entered into without delay upon such terms and conditions as the Superintendent should think fit, and that payment of the price of such works should be made in land, subject to and in pursuance of the 36th section of The Southland Waste Lands Act, 1865, provided that such price should not exceed in the whole the sum of twenty-five thousand pounds;” and 2nd, “That a block or blocks of land, not exceeding in the aggregate twenty-five thousand acres in area, should be granted for that purpose:” And whereas it is expedient that such recommendation should be confirmed:
Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, K.C.B., the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, do hereby proclaim and declare that I do confirm the said recommendation of the said Provincial Council, and the same is hereby confirmed.
Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, at the Government House at Wellington, and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, this eleventh day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
E. W. STAFFORD.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Approved in Council,
FOSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of Southland, by Rymans & Co., of Invercargill, New Zealand, Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.
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Southland Provincial Gazette 1866, No 2
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Proclamation on Southland Waste Lands Act
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🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey11 January 1866
Public Works, Land Grants, Waste Lands Act, Railway Construction
- Sir George Grey, K.C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- E. W. Stafford
- Foster Goring, Clerk of the Executive Council