New Zealand Legislation: Acts
Acts are laws made by Parliament
| Local Act | 1877 No 47 |
| Date of assent | 29 November 1877 |
3 Grant of land in Schedule [Repealed]
5 Passing of Act a full and complete discharge [Repealed]
An Act to authorize the Governor to grant or otherwise assure to the Corporation of the Town of Port Chalmers certain lands as Compensation for Town Belt Land taken for the Dunedin and Moeraki Railway, and for injury to Property belonging to the Corporation of such Town by such Railway.
WHEREAS the Dunedin and Moeraki Railway passes through the entire extent of the Town Belt of Port Chalmers, and upwards of eight acres of such belt have been taken to construct the said railway, and the remaining part of the said belt is so cut up as to render it nearly useless for the purposes for which it was originally set apart: And whereas by the construction of the said railway the said Town Belt and other property belonging to the Corporation of the said town has been injuriously affected to a large extent, and it is just and equitable to make compensation for the land so taken and the property so injuriously affected:
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—