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Otago School Commissioners Empowering Act 1890

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The Otago Commissioners may sell by private contract to the Invercargill Corporation the land described in the Schedule, and convey the same accordingly.

Land thenceforth to be held by the Corporation for the purpose of a cemetery.

Schedule

Otago School Commissioners Empowering Act 1890

Local Act		1890 No 3
Date of assent		29 August 1890

	Title
	Preamble.
1	Short Title.
2	Interpretation.
3	The Otago Commissioners may sell by private contract to the Invercargill Corporation the land described in the Schedule, and convey the same accordingly.
4	Land thenceforth to be held by the Corporation for the purpose of a cemetery.
	Schedule

An Act to empower the School Commissioners for the Otago Provincial District to sell by Private Contract to the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Invercargill a certain Parcel of Land for the Purpose of a Cemetery.

Preamble.

WHEREAS the parcel of land described in the Schedule hereto is vested in the School Commissioners for the Otago Provincial District, and is held by them in trust as an endowment for primary education: And whereas the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Invercargill are desirous of purchasing the said parcel of land, to he held for the purpose of a cemetery; and it is expedient to empower the said School Commissioners of the Otago Provincial District to sell the same by private contract to the said Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Invercargill, for that purpose:

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 is “The Otago School Commissioners Empowering Act, 1890:”

2 Interpretation.

In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context,—

“Commissioners” means the School Commissioners for the Otago Provincial District constituted under “The Education Reserves Act Amendment Act, 1882:”

“Corporation” means the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Invercargill constituted under “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886:”

“Council” means the Council of the said borough.

3 The Otago Commissioners may sell by private contract to the Invercargill Corporation the land described in the Schedule, and convey the same accordingly.

It shall be lawful for the Commissioners to sell by private contract to the Corporation the parcel of land described in the Schedule hereto, at such price as may be fixed by arbitration between the Commissioners and the Council, and to execute such assurances and instruments as may be necessary or requisite for vesting the said parcel of land in the Corporation.

4 Land thenceforth to be held by the Corporation for the purpose of a cemetery.

The Corporation shall thenceforth hold the said parcel of land in trust for the purpose of a cemetery.

Schedule

All that parcel of land situated in the Hundred of Invercargill, in the County of Southland, in New Zealand, containing 17 acres 3 roods, more or less, being Section No. 2 of 43 of Block II. on the Crown grant record-map of the Invercargill Hundred. Bounded towards the north-east by Section No. 42 of the said block, 2590 links; towards the south-east by Section No. 3 of 43 of aforesaid block, 697 links; towards the south-west by Section No. 1 of 43 of aforesaid block, 2503 links; and towards the north-west by a public road, 702 links. Excepting, however, out of the said parcel of land that portion thereof taken for the purposes of the Bluff–Waitaki Railway-line, and containing 1 rood 38 perches, more or less.

Otago School Commissioners Empowering Act 1890