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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 32

V.—Public Reserves

V.—Public Reserves

This clause was repealled by "The Canterbury Waste Lands Act 1873," and the following clause substituted for it.

19. Reserves for the uses of the Provincial Government and fur other public purposes may, upon the recommendation of the Provincial Council, be made by the Superintendent, and shall not be alienated from the specific purposes to which they shall have been severally dedicated, except under the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly entituled "The Public Reserves Act 1854;" and a full and complete description of every such reserve and of the purposes to which it shall have been dedicated shall, so soon as possible after it shall have been wade, be published in the Government Gazette of the Province, and set forth on the authenticated maps in the Land Office: Provided that the Superintendent may, if the Provincial Council be not then sitting, temporarily reserve land for such purposes until the next session of such Council.
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19. Reserves for the uses of the Provincial Government

Reserves how to be made

and for other public purposes 1 may, upon the recommendation of the Provincial Council, be made by the Superintendent, and shall not be alienated from the specific purposes to which they shall have been severally dedicated, except under the pro visions of an Act of the General Assembly, entituled "The Public Reserves Act 1854:" and a full and complete description of every such reserve and of the purposes to which it shall have been dedicated she be published in the Government Gazette of the Province, and set forth on the authenticated maps in the Land Office: Provided that the Superintendent may, if the Provincial Council be not then sitting, temporarily reserve land for such purposes until the next session of such Council. 2 And if the Provincial Council shall not at its next sitting recommend the Superintendent to make the lands so temporarily reserved or any part thereof a reserve, the same or the portion not included in any such recommendation shall nevertheless not be open for sale, except in the manner hereinafter provided.
The Superintendent may nevertheless, immediately

Disposal of inpsed Reserves

at the conclusion of every session of the Provincial Council, again temporarily reserve any such land for any purpose until the next session of such Provincial Council; or in case he shall not again temporarily reserve such land, he shall cause the same to be put up for sale by public auction at an upset price of forty shillings per acre, at such time and place of sale, and in such mode of sale and payment of purchase money as he may think fit; and if such land be not sold at such auction, the same shall thereupon be open for sale as rural land.

1 Reserves made under this clause for "churches, chapels and cemeteries," were validated by "The Canterbury Public Reserves Act 1867."

2 Lands reserved for public purposes, may, either before or after issue of Crown Grant under "The Public Reserves Act 1854" to the Superintendent, be surrendered to the Crown by the Superintendent, in cases where the lands so reserved have been, or it is desirable that they should be appropriated to purposes connected with the General Government administration. (See "The Public Buildings Reserves Act 1867.

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This clause was repealed by "The Canterbury Waste Lands Act 1873" and the following clause substituted for it.

20. Reserves for public highways, bridle-paths and footpaths shall be made by the Superintendent, and shall be set forth on the authenticated maps in the Land Office. The Superintendent and the Provincial Council may, by Ordinance, alter the line of any such highways, bridle-paths, and footpaths, and dispose of the land theretofore used for the same.

Reserves for public highways &c.

20. Reserves for public highways, bridle-paths, and foot-paths shall be made at any time whatever by the Superintendent or the Board, or by the Chief Surveyor, under the authority of the Superintendent, and shall be set forth on the authenticated maps in the Land Office. 1 The Superintendent and the Provincial Council may by Ordinance alter the line of any such high ways, bridle-paths and footpaths, and dispose of the land theretofore used for the same.

Reserves of timber

21. The Superintendent may temporarily reserve any land for the preservation or sale of the timber thereon; but such land may at any time cease to be so reserved upon a Resolution of the Provincial Council.

Reserves of auriferous land

22. The Superintendent may, upon the recommendation of the Provincial Council, by proclamation in the Government Gazette reserve from the operation of these Regulations any tract of country in which the precious metals may be found to exist; and the land within such tract of country shall be disposed of according to Regulations hereafter to be issued and published in that behalf, in the same manner and under the same authority as these present Regulations. 2

1 (1). The "Canterbury Waste Lands Act 1873" enacts that "all rural lands in the said Province shall be sold subject to a right of laying out a road or roads over the some, if found necessary or expedient on survey; and a Crown Grant shall issue to the purchaser or purchasers of any such hind, excepting thereout so much thereof as may be required for such road or roads. (See Appendix No. X. hereto.)

2 Power is given to the Superintendent under "The Canterbury Temporary Mining Reserves Act 1869," to temporarily reserve supposed auriferous land, and to issue licenses to prospect over such reserves. (See Appendix No. V., hereto).