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so proclaimed shall be deemed to be a railway
within the meaning of the said Act and
the said amending Act and this Act:

And whereas by "The Immigration and
Public Works Act, 1872," it is enacted that, at
any time after the expiration of twenty-one
days from the publication in the New Zea-
land Gazette, and in a newspaper ordinarily
circulating in the district, of a Proclamation
under the thirteenth section of the said Act,
whether of the whole or a portion or portions
of a line of railway, the Governor, on behalf
of Her Majesty, may enter upon, take
possession of, use and hold, or cause to be
entered upon, taken possession of, used and
held, so much of the lands defined in such
Proclamation as proposed to be taken as
shall be required to be taken, purchased, or
permanently used for the purposes of such
railway, notwithstanding that an agreement
shall not have been come to or an award
made for the purchase or compensation
money to be paid in respect of such lands:

And whereas by the said last-mentioned
Act it is also enacted that in any case in
which a road or right of road has been or
hereafter may be reserved in any Crown
grant, and in any case in which, under "The
Native Lands Act, 1865," or any law for the
time being in force relating to the sale of
waste lands of the Crown, or any law what-
ever, there is a right to take a public road
through any lands, it shall be lawful, after
such road shall have been surveyed, to con-
struct under the said Acts any railway, or
any part of any railway, on the road so
surveyed, notwithstanding that such road
may not have been made:

And whereas the Governor has deter-
mined to construct and maintain a portion
of the railway authorised to be constructed
from Brunner to Greymouth, and has, by
Proclamations, dated respectively the first
day of May, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-three,
and published in the New Zealand Gazette
of the same date; and the sixteenth day of
October, in the same year, and published in
the New Zealand Gazette dated October
23rd, 1873; proclaimed, declared, and de-
fined the limits, description, and line of
portions of the said railway from a point on
the south bank of the River Grey opposite
the Brunner Coal Mine, and terminating at
or near a point which is situated on Rich-
mond Quay, and about 90 links, more or
less, distant from the corner formed by the
western side of Boundary-street with the
southern side of Richmond Quay, in the
Town of Greymouth, in the County of West-
land:

And whereas the Governor has determined
to construct and maintain a further portion
of the railway from Brunner to Greymouth,
authorized to be constructed by "The Rail-
ways Act, 1871," "The Railways Act, 1872,"
"The Railways Act, 1873," and "The Rail-
ways Act, 1874," which said further portion
is herein-after described:

Now therefore, I, the Right Honorable
Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and
pursuance of the powers and authorities
conferred on me by the herein-before in
part recited Acts, and in exercise of every
other power enabling me in this behalf, do
hereby proclaim, declare, and define the
limits, description, and line of the said
further portion of the said railway to be
those set forth in the First Schedule
hereto; and that the lands specified and
described in the Second Schedule hereto
are proposed to be taken for the pur-
poses of the said further portion of
the said railway; and that the limits
of deviation shall be those set forth
in the said First Schedule hereto;
and in pursuance and exercise of all
powers and authorities conferred on me
in that behalf. I do hereby fix the point
of commencement of the said further portion
of the said railway to be at or near a point
which is situated on Richmond Quay, and
about 90 links, more or less, distant from
the corner formed by the western side of
Boundary-street with the southern side of
Richmond Quay, in the Town of Greymouth,
in the Province of Westland, and the point
of termination thereof to be a point which
is situated on the sea beach in the said Pro-
vince, the said point being distant 65 chains
or thereabouts in a west-north-westerly
direction from the point of commencement
in the town and Province aforesaid.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Limits, Description, Line, and Limits of
Deviation of a portion of the Railway from
Brunner to Greymouth, in the Province of
Westland.

COMMENCING at or near a point which is
situated on Richmond Quay, and about 90
links, more or less, distant from the corner
formed by the western side of Boundary-
street with the southern side of Richmond
Quay, in the Town of Greymouth,