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A Compendium of Official Documents Relative to Native Affairs in the South Island. Volume Two.

Grant II. — Copy of Crown Grant to the Lord Bishop of New Zealand, registered at Nelson, in Vol I., D. part I., No. 600; and laid on the table of the Council, May 17th, 1869

Grant II.
Copy of Crown Grant to the Lord Bishop of New Zealand, registered at Nelson, in Vol I., D. part I., No. 600; and laid on the table of the Council, May 17th, 1869.

Victoria, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, and so forth:

To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting: Whereas a school is about to be established at Motueka, in the Province of Nelson, under the superintendence of the Right Rev. George Augustus, Lord Bishop of New Zealand, for the education of children of our subjects of all races, and of children of other poor and destitute persons, being inhabitants of islands in the Pacific Ocean: And whereas it would promote the object of the said institution to set apart the under-mentioned pieces or parcels of land in the neighbourhood thereof for the use and towards the maintenance and support of the same: Now know ye, that we, for us, our heirs and successors, do hereby grant unto the said George Augustus, Lord Bishop of the diocese in which the town of Nelson is situated, and to his successors, Bishops of that diocese, all that piece or parcel of land, situate at Motueka, in the Province of Nelson, in the Islands of New Zealand, marked J on the plan drawn in the margin of these presents, and containing 4 acres 2 roods and 29 perches or thereabouts, bounded on the north by a public road, and on the east, south, and west by section No. 157. Also, all that piece or parcel of land, situate at Motueka, in the Province of Nelson aforesaid, marked F on the said plan, and containing 102 acres or thereabouts, bounded on the north partly by a public road, and partly by Section No. 158,, on the east, by public roads; on the south, partly by block G and partly by public roads; on the west, partly by Section 185, and partly by a public road. Also, all that parcel of land, situate at Motueka, in the Province of Nelson aforesaid, marked L on the said plan, and containing 34 acres and 24 perches or thereabouts, bounded on the north, partly by Sections Nos. 181 and 164; on the east, by block H; on the south, by Section No. 165; and on the west, by a public road. Also, all that piece or parcel of land, situate at Motueka, in the Province of Nelson aforesaid, marked K on the said plan, and containing 7 acres or thereabouts, bounded on the north, south, and west by Section No. 157, and on the east by a road. Also, all that piece or parcel of land, situate at Motueka, in the Province of Nelson aforesaid, marked H on the said plan, and containing 41 acres or thereabouts, bounded on the north by block G; on the east, by a public road; on the south by Section No. 165; and on the west, partly by Sections Nos. 162, 163, and 164, and partly by block L. Also, all that piece or parcel of land, situate at Motueka, in the Province of Nelson aforesaid, marked I on the said plan, and containing 100 acres or thereabouts, bounded on the north, by Section No. 136; on the east, by a public road; on the south, by Section No. 139; and on the west, by a public road. Also, all that piece or parcel of land, situate at Motueka, in the Province of Nelson aforesaid, marked M on the said plan, and containing 29 acres and 32 perches or thereabouts, bounded on the north, south, and west by public roads, and on the east, by mud-flats. Also, all that piece or parcel of land, situate at Motueka, in the Province of Nelson aforesaid, and numbered 22 on the said plan, and containing 50 acres or thereabouts, bounded on the north and east by Section No. 21, and on the south and west by public roads. And also, all that piece or parcel of land, situate at Motueka, in the Province of Nelson aforesaid, numbered 6 on the said plan, and containing 50 acres or thereabouts, bounded on the north, by a public road; on the east, by Section numbered 7; and on the south and west, by public roads; all the boundaries of the said pieces or parcels of land being more particularly delineated on the plans drawn in the margin of these presents, together with the rents, issues, and proceeds thereof, to hold unto the said George Augustus, Lord Bishop of the diocese in which the town of Nelson is situated, and to his successors, Bishops of this diocese, subject to all existing leases of the said lands, or any part of them, a schedule whereof is endorsed on these presents, in trust nevertheless, and for the uses and towards the maintenance and support of the said school, so long as religious education, industrial training, and instruction in the English language shall be given to the youth educated therein or maintained thereat.

In testimony whereof we have caused this our grant to be sealed with the seal of our said territory.

Witness our trusty and well beloved Sir George Grey, a Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over our said Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, at Wellington, in New Zealand aforesaid, this 4th day of August, in the 17th year of our reign, and in the year of our Lord 1853.

G. Grey.

Dated 4th August, 1853.
[L.S.]