Public Reserves Sale Act 1877
Public Reserves Sale Act 1877
Public Reserves Sale Act 1877
Public Reserves Sale Act 1877
Public Act |
1877 No 25 |
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Date of assent |
29 November 1877 |
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Contents
An Act to enable the Governor to sell and exchange certain Allotments of Land and to apply the Proceeds of such Sales in Public Improvements.
Preamble.
WHEREAS the allotments or parcels of land described in the Schedule A hereunto were heretofore set apart as public reserves: And whereas the said lands are not required for any public purpose, and it is expedient that the same should be sold, and the proceeds thereof expended in public improvements:
Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Short Title.
The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Public Reserves Sale Act, 1877.”
2 Governor may sell lands described in Schedule A.
It shall be lawful for the Governor, whenever he shall think fit, to sell and dispose of by public auction, either altogether or in lots, all or any part of the said allotments or parcels of land more particularly mentioned or described in the said Schedule A to this Act.
3 Governor may grant unencumbered estate therein.
It shall also be lawful for the Governor, in the name and on behalf of her Majesty, to make and execute, under the Public Seal of the Colony, Crown grants in the usual form to the purchasers of any of the lands sold under this Act, and every such grant shall be deemed to convey an estate in fee-simple, free from encumbrances.
4 Application of proceeds.
The money to arise from every such sale shall be applied first in payment of the expenses attending the same, and then in the manner following respectively, that is to say,—
(1.)
As to the purchase-money of the allotment, being part of Section number five hundred and thirteen on the plan of the City of Wellington, in or towards the erection of a Courthouse or Courthouses in the City of Wellington:
(2.)
As to the purchase-money of part of Section number three hundred and sixty-eight, in the Township of Waimate, in or towards the erection of a Resident Magistrate’s Court and other public buildings on another part of the same section:
(3.)
As to the purchase-money of Sections five, seven, and eight, in the Town of Roxburgh, in or towards the erection of a Resident Magistrate’s Court elsewhere within the said town.
5 Governor may grant lands described in Schedule B in exchange for other lands and buildings.
And whereas it has been proposed that the parcel of land described in the Schedule B hereunto annexed, together with the buildings thereon erected, shall be transferred by the Government of the colony to the Auckland Improvement Commissioners in exchange for a certain other parcel of land described in the Schedule C hereunto annexed, together with the buildings erected thereon, which last-named parcel of land the aforesaid Commissioners have agreed to convey to Her Majesty in fulfilment on their part of the proposed exchange: And whereas the aforesaid Commissioners have also agreed to dispose of and sell to Her Majesty the lands described in the Schedule D hereunto annexed, together with the buildings erected thereon:
Be it further enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor whenever he shall think fit, in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, to make and execute under the Public Seal of the colony a Crown grant to the Auckland Improvement Commissioners and their successors of the parcel of land described in the said Schedule B to this Act, together with the buildings thereon erected, and may also grant to the aforesaid Commissioners, their successors or assigns, a right of way to, in, and over the passage forming the eastern boundary of the aforesaid land.
6 Lands conveyed to the Queen to be public reserves. Portion for Resident Magistrate’s Court.
Any land conveyed by the aforesaid Commissioners to Her Majesty under the authority of this Act shall be deemed to be reserved for public purposes; and the portion thereof described in the Schedule D to this Act, together with the buildings erected thereon, shall be appropriated to and for the purposes of a Resident Magistrate’s Court for the City of Auckland.
7 Auckland Improvement Commissioners may convey lands described in Schedule C.
It shall be lawful for the Auckland Improvement Commissioners to convey to Her Majesty all that piece of land described in the said Schedule C to this Act, together with the buildings erected thereon, now occupied by the Grammar School, and being part of the old Albert Barracks Reserve.
8 Commissioners may sell to the Queen lands described in Schedule D.
It shall also be lawful for the aforesaid Commissioners to sell and dispose of by private contract, and to convey to Her Majesty, all that piece of land described in the said Schedule D to this Act, together with the buildings erected thereon, known as the Wesleyan Chapel and School, which lands were purchased by the said Commissioners from the Trustees of the Wesleyan Chapel and the Trustee of the Temperance Hall site respectively.
9 Land and moneys received by them to be dealt with under Act of 1873.
Any land granted to the aforesaid Commissioners in exchange for the parcel of land hereby proposed to be conveyed by them to Her Majesty may be dealt with by them as land purchased under “The Auckland Improvement Act, 1873;”
and the moneys to be received by the aforesaid Commissioners, as proceeds of the sale of the lands described in Schedules B and D respectively, shall be applied as money received under the last-mentioned Act is directed to be applied.
Schedules
Schedule A
1.
All that parcel of land in the City of Wellington on which stand the buildings occupied by the Supreme Court, the Resident Magistrate’s Court, and the Police Office, containing by admeasurement thirty-seven (37) perches (more or less), being part of Section No. 513 on the plan of the City of Wellington. Bounded towards the Northwest by other part of Section No. 513, being a right of way 3 feet wide, one hundred and five (105) links; towards the North-east by Lambton Quay, one hundred and sixty (160) links; towards the South-east by other portion of Section No. 513, being a grant to the Presbyterian Church two hundred and eight (208) links; and towards the West and South-west by Section No. 482 one hundred and fifty (150) links, and by Section No. 483 sixty-two (62) links respectively: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.
2.
All that parcel of land in the Provincial District of Canterbury, containing by admeasurement two (2) acres and two (2) roods, more or less, being part of Section numbered 368, situate in the Township of Waimate; and bounded towards the North-east by High Street, five hundred (500) links; towards the South-east by Queen Street, five hundred (500) links; towards the South-west by Sections Nos. 93 and 94, five hundred (500) links; and towards the North-west by Sharman Street, five hundred (500) links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less, as the same is delineated on the plans deposited in the Provincial District Survey Office, Christchurch.
3.
All that parcel of land in the Town of Roxburgh, within the Provincial District of Otago, on part whereof stand the buildings occupied by the Resident Magistrate’s Court, being Sections numbered respectively five (5), seven (7), and eight (8), Block one (I.), Town of Roxburgh, containing by admeasurement two (2) roods and nineteen (19) poles, more or less, as the same is more particularly delineated and described on the plans deposited in the Survey Office, Dunedin.
Schedule B
1.
All that parcel of land in the City of Auckland on which stand the buildings occupied by the Resident Magistrate’s Court, being the western part of Police Court site, situated in Section No. 4 of the City of Auckland; and bounded towards the North by Lot No. 4 of Section No. 4 aforesaid, fifty-eight (58) feet seven (7) inches; towards the East by a passage about 10 feet wide fifty-four (54) feet nine (9) inches; towards the South by Chancery Street, fifty-nine (59) feet; and towards the West by High Street fifty-four (54) feet nine (9) inches: and containing eleven (11) perches, more or less.
Schedule C
1.
All that parcel of land in the City of Auckland on which stand the buildings now occupied by the Grammar School, and being part of the old Albert Barracks Reserve, being subdivisional Lot No. 17 of Subsection No. 4 of Section No. 13 of the City of Auckland. Bounded towards the North-east by O’Rorke Street, one hundred and fifty-two (152) feet; towards the South-east by subdivisional Lot No. 1 of Subsection No. 4 aforesaid, one hundred and fifty-eight (158) feet; towards the South-west by subdivisional Lot No. 16 of the aforesaid Subsection, one hundred (100) feet; and towards the North-west by Park Street, one hundred and sixty-five (165) feet: and containing one (1) rood and thirty-two (32) perches.
Schedule D
1.
All that parcel of land in the City of Auckland on which stand the buildings known as the Wesleyan Chapel and School, being portions of Lots Nos. 27 and 26 of Section No. 4 of the City of Auckland. Bounded towards the North by portion of Lot No. 27, seventy-one (71) feet and twenty-one (21) feet; towards the North-east by portions of Lot No. 26, one hundred and thirteen (113) feet; again towards the North by portion of Lot No. 26 aforesaid, fifty-one (51) feet; towards the East by a proposed street 66 feet wide, one hundred and eighty-three (183) feet; towards the South by Lot No. 28 of Section No. 4 aforesaid, three hundred and nineteen (319) feet five (5) inches; and towards the West by High street, fifty-seven (57) feet: and containing two (2) roods and twenty (20) perches.