Catlin's River Cemetery Act Act 1878
Catlin's River Cemetery Act Act 1878
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Catlin's River Cemetery Act Act 1878
Catlin’s River Cemetery Act Act 1878
Local Act |
1878 No 3 |
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Date of assent |
23 September 1878 |
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Contents
An Act providing that a Portion of the Education Reserve at Catlin’s River shall be a Public Cemetery.
Preamble.
WHEREAS the lands described in the Schedule form part of certain sections which, on the sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, were granted to the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, in trust for the establishment and maintenance of a University in the City of Dunedin, in the said province, and of public schools in different parts of the province, and for the general advancement of education in the said province; and whereas the said lands, as described in the Schedule, are required for a public cemetery, and have for several years been used as such; and whereas “The Education Reserves Act, 1877,”
provides that education reserves should vest in School Commissioners; and whereas the said Act also provides that the said education reserves should be apportioned for the purposes of primary and secondary education; and whereas the lands described in the Schedule have been apportioned for the purposes of primary education; and whereas the said School Commissioners have no power to set aside the said lands as a public cemetery; and whereas it is desirable that the said lands should cease to form part of the said education reserves, and should be set aside as a public cemetery:
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 Catlin’s River Cemetery Act, 1878.”
2 Lands declared a public cemetery.
The lands described in the Schedule shall be and the same are hereby withdrawn from their position as a portion of the education reserves, and the said lands shall be and shall continue to be a public cemetery.
3 Under “Cemeteries Management Act, 1877.”
The said lands shall be under the operation of “The Cemeteries Management Act, 1877,”
as if the said lands had been a public cemetery previous to the passing of the said Act.
Schedule
All that parcel of land in the Provincial District of Otago, containing by admeasurement four (4) acres three (3) roods and fourteen (14) poles, more or less, being part of Sections Nos. 29 and 31, Block VIII., Glenomaru Survey District. Bounded towards the North-west by a road line, one thousand two hundred and twenty-four and seven-tenths (1224.7) links; towards the East by a line due south, four hundred and sixty-eight and eight-tenths (468.8) links; towards the North by a line due east, one hundred and seventy-six (176) links; again towards the East by a line due south, four hundred and seventy and three-tenths (470 3) links; and towards the South by a road line, nine hundred and twenty and seven-tenths (920.7) links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.
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Catlin's River Cemetery Act Act 1878
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