AUCKLAND AND DRURY RAILWAY ACT, 1868.

IN THE THIRTY-FIRST YE Mi OF TILE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA.

18GS. SESSION XXII . No. fO

A N A L Y S I S : Title. | 2. Superintendent may mortgage seller lease Preamble. | certain lands and oilier property.

1. Short Title. | 3. Superintendent may make other conditions.

AN ACT to enable the Superintendent of the Province ofTitle-Auckland to exercise the powers conferred on the Provincial Legislature by " The Auckland and Drury Railway Act, 1867" of the General Assembly.

WHEREAS by " The Auckland and Drury Railway Act Gamble.

1867" of the General Assembly it was enacted That the Superintendent and Provincial Council may by Act authorise the disposition by mortgage sale or lease of the Railway or any part thereof upon such terms and subject to such conditions as to the Superintendent and Provincial Council shall seem meet And it is further enacted that the whole of the powers and authorities given to and vested in the Superintendent by " The Auckland and Drury Railway Act 18G3" of the General Assembly and the Acts incorporated therewith may be given by the Superintendent and Provincial Council to and vested in any person or persons who shall undertake the completion of the Railway or any part thereof AND WHEREAS is is expe-

dient to dispose of the said Railway and to vest the powers conferred by "The Auckland and Drury Railway Act 1863" in manner hereinafter provided.

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland with the advice and consent of the Pro-vincial Council thereof as follows :

short Title" 1. The Short Title of this Act shall be " The Auckland and Drury Railway Act 1868."

m?rfglgleseiinor w 2- l t slia11 b e l a w f u l f o r t l i e Superintendent with the certain lands and advice and consent of his Executive Council to mortgage sell or other property. lease the lands conveyed to the Superintendent for the purposes

of such Act and also all the plant and other personal property connected therewith Provided that any such disposition of the property aforesaid shall be made on the condition only that any such mortgagee lessee or purchaser shall be compelled to com-plete rthe Railway in the manner prescribed by the aforesaid recited Act. »

maSeinot£n\ondi Superintendent with the advice and consent of his tions. Executive Council may make such other conditions as to the

completion of any contract made by virtue of this Act for the purpose of effectually working and carrying out the Railway between Auckland and Drury or such other termini as may be expedient.

G. MAURICE O'RORKE, SPEAKER.

Passed the Provincial Council the fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

RICHARD J . O'SULLIVAN, Clerk of Council.

I hereby declare that I reserve this Act for the signification of the Governor's pleasure thereon, this fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

J . W I L L I A M S O N , SUPERINTENDENT.