PROVINCE OF WESTLAND GAZETTE. 107

Extracted from the NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE No. 82, of the 10th June, 1875.

Proclaiming certain Lands to have been taken for purposes of the Railway from Brunner to Greymouth.

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by “The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1872,” it is, among other things, enacted, that whenever it shall become necessary that any land which the Governor or the Minister is by or under the Acts therein mentioned, or any Act authorising the construction of any railway by the Governor or Minister, authorised to purchase or take for such railway, or any portion thereof on or over which a railway authorised by the said Acts or any Act to be passed in pursuance thereof, has been or may hereafter be constructed, should be vested in Her Majesty the Queen, it shall be lawful for the Governor or the Minister to cause a map of all such lands as may have been taken or purchased under the said Acts, or any Act authorising the construction of any railway as aforesaid, or any portion of such railway to be prepared. Such map shall fully and accurately set forth the pieces, or parcels of land intended to be taken and permanently used, or which have been purchased or taken, or are required to be vested in Her Majesty for the purposes of any such railway, and shall be authenticated by the signature of the Minister, or by that of some person to be appointed by him for that purpose from time to time. And it is also enacted that the Minister shall cause the map to be deposited in the office of the Registrar of Deeds for the Registration District within which the lands shall be situated; or, if the lands set forth on any such map shall extend beyond the boundaries of any one district, then such map shall be prepared in so many parts as shall be requisite to delineate the land within each such district; and the map, or the parts thereof, as aforesaid, shall be deposited in the office of the Registrar of Deeds in each Registration District where the lands shall be situated to which such map relates; but for the purposes of this Act, such map, although consisting of several parts, shall only be deemed to be one map: And whereas by the said Act it is further enacted that it shall thereupon be lawful for the Governor from time to time, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to declare that the lands set forth in such map, or any of them have been taken or acquired for the purposes of the railway in respect of which the same shall have been taken or acquired under the said Acts, or any Act authorising the same to be taken or acquired; and in such Proclamation the lands intended to be affected shall be therein described by reference to such maps so to be deposited as aforesaid: And whereas, in accordance with the provisions of the said part recited Act, the Minister for Public Works has caused a map of all such lands as have been taken or purchased for that further portion of the line of railway from Brunner to Greymouth, in the Province of Westland, the description, line, and limits whereof are proclaimed, declared, and defined by a Proclamation of His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand, dated the sixteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, to be prepared as by the said in part recited Act is required; and the said map is authenticated by the signature of the Honorable Edward Richardson, as such Minister for Public Works: And whereas the said Minister, on or about the seventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, caused the said map to be deposited in the office of the Registrar of Deeds at Hokitika, in the said Province of Westland aforesaid:

Now therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the hereinbefore part recited Act do hereby proclaim and declare that the lands set forth in the said map so deposited as aforesaid have been taken or acquired for the purposes of the said railway from Brunner to Greymouth, which said railway is, by “The Railways Act, 1871,” “The Railways Act, 1872,” “The Railways Act, 1873,” and “The Railways Act, 1874,” authorised to be constructed and maintained under the provisions of “The