Akaroa Public Library Site Act 1877
Akaroa Public Library Site Act 1877
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Akaroa Public Library Site Act 1877
Akaroa Public Library Site Act 1877
Local Act |
1877 No 35 |
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Date of assent |
20 November 1877 |
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Contents
An Act to empower the Trustees of the Akaroa Public Library to exchange certain portions of Land in Akaroa for other adjoining Land.
Preamble.
WHEREAS by deed bearing date the sixth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, Daniel Watkins, Esquire, of Akaroa, Banks Peninsula, in the Province of Canterbury, conveyed to the Reverend William Josiah Aylmer, clerk in holy orders; James Daniel Garwood, Esquire; and Stephen Watkins, Esquire, all of Akaroa, and hereinafter called “the Trustees,”
an allotment of land (described in the Schedule hereto) in Akaroa, fronting Jollie Street, as the site of a Public Library: And whereas it would be for the interest of the said trust that the Trustees should be empowered to exchange portions of the said land for other adjoining land:
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 Akaroa Public Library Site Act, 1877.”
2 Trustees may exchange lands.
The Trustees of the Akaroa Public Library for the time being, or their successors or assigns, may exchange any portions of the lands held by them as a site for a Public Library under the said recited conveyance, for other adjoining lands, not being in the whole less in area than those portions given in exchange by the said Trustees, and having at least an equal frontage to Jollie Street.
3 Trustees may execute conveyances.
The said Trustees, or their successors or assigns, may execute all such conveyances as may be requisite for effectuating such exchange, and upon the execution of such conveyances the lands comprised therein shall be discharged from the trust expressed in the hereinbefore recited conveyance, and all lands conveyed in exchange to the said Trustees under the provisions of this Act shall be held by the said Trustees upon the same trust as is declared by the hereinbefore recited conveyance.
4 Trustees may convey site for Library to Borough Council.
It shall be lawful for the Trustees for the time being of the said site for a Library to convey the said property to the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Akaroa, to be held by the said Borough Council for the same purposes and on the same trusts as are expressed in the hereinbefore recited deed.
SCHEDULE
Schedule
All that parcel of land part of the Rural Section numbered 61 on the map or plan of the Chief Surveyor of the said Province of Canterbury, setting out and describing the rural· lands on Banks Peninsula aforesaid, commencing at a point on the north-east side of Jollie Street, which said point is distant sixty-six feet in a straight line from the junction of Jollie Street and Beach Road; thence in a south-westerly direction, and fronting Jollie Street aforesaid, a distance of forty-four feet; thence in a south-easterly direction, in a straight line parallel to the north-eastern boundary of the said section, a distance of one hundred feet; thence in a north-easterly direction, and parallel to Jollie Street aforesaid, a distance of forty-four feet; and thence in a north-westerly direction, a distance of one hundred feet, to the commencing point; as the same is delineated on the plan drawn on the conveyance.
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Akaroa Public Library Site Act 1877
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