THE NELSON, COBDEN, AND WESTPORT RAILWAY LAND BILL.

Colonist, Volume X, Issue X, 12 February 1867, Page 2

THE NELSON, COBDEN, AND WESTPORT RAILWAY LAND BILL.

The following is a copy of this act which was passed and assented to on the Bth. of October. It is entitled :—

An Act to authorize the reservation and appropriation of Waste Lands of the Crown in the Province of

Kelson for the construction of a Railway from the Port of Nelson to the West Coast of the Province. Whereas it is expedient to promote the construction of a railway connecting the Port of Nelson with the West Coast of the Province of Nelson.

Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows—

I. The short title of this act shall be " the Nelson Cobden and Westport Eailway Land Act 1866."

11. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council ■when any person shall have contracted with the Superintendent of the Province of Nelson for the construction of a railway from the Port of Nelson to Cobden and Westporfc pursuant to any act or ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the said Province of Nelson which may hereafter be passed authorizing tne Superintendent to make any such contract and shall have given such security' as may be required by such act or ordinance for the punctual fulfilment of such contract to reserve from sale such portions of the waste lands of the Crown in the said Province a3 may be agreed upon between the Superintendent and such contractor and be authorized by such act or ordinance of the Provincial Council and upon the completion of the said railway being certified to the Waste Lands Board of the said Province by the Superintendent the Commissioner of Crown lands and the Provincial Engineer by writing under their hands such person shall be entitled to a grant of the land so reserved. Provided that the land to be so reserved from sale and appropriated shall not exceed ten thousand acres for each mile of such railway and shall be land having a drainage to the valleys through which such Eailway shall pass and that no grant shall be. issued for any part of the land so reserved and appropriated until the whole of such Eailway Bball have been completed. Provided also that every Act or Ordinance authorizing any such contract shall bo reserved for the signification of the Governor'^ pleasure thereou. ' '" ' 111. The. word "person" shall 'include within its meaning any company or body of persona incorporated or unincorporated,

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