V.  Australien.  1433  232.  New  Zealand.

Water,  or  for  the  Use  or  Benefit  of  the  aboriginal  Inhabitants  of  the  Country,  or
for  Purposes  of  Military  Defence,  or  as  the  Sites  of  Places  of  Public  Worship,  Schools,
or  other  public  Buildings,  or  as  Places  for  the  Interment  of  the  Dead  or  Places  for
the  Recreation  and  Amusement  of  the  Inhabitants  of  any  Town  or  Village,  or  as
the  Sites  of  Public  Quays  or  Landing  Places  on  the  Sea  Coast  or  Shores  of  navigable
Streams,  or  for  any  other  Purpose  of  public  Safety,  Convenience,  Health,  or
Enjoyment,)  there  shall  be  paid  to  the  said  New  Zealand  Company  towards  the
Discharge  of  the  Principal  Sum  and  Interest  charged  as  aforesaid,  in  lieu  of  all  and
every  other  Claim  of  the  said  Company  in  respect  of  the  said  Sum,  except  where
otherwise  herein-after  provided,  so  long  as  the  same  or  any  Part  thereof  respeotively
shall  remain  unpaid,  One  Fourth  Part  of  the  Sum  paid  by  the  Purchaser  in  respect
of  every  such  Sale  or  Alienation:  Provided  always,  that  it  shall  be  lawful  for  the
New  Zealand  Company,  by  any  Resolution  of  a  Majority  of  the  Proprietors  of  the
said  Company  present  at  any  Meeting  of  such  Proprietors,  and  certified  under  the
Common  Seal  of  such  Company,  to  release  all  or  any  Part  of  the  said  Lands  from
the  Monies  or  Payment  charged  thereon  by  the  said  Act  or  this  Act,  or  any  Part  of
such  Monies  or  Payment,  either  absolutely  or  upon  any  Terms  or  Conditions,  as
such  Proprietors  may  think  fit.  .

"LXXV.  It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  the  said  General  Assembly  to  repeal  er
interfere  with  all  or  any  of  the  Provisions  of  an  Act  of  the  Session  holden  in  the
Thirteenth  and  Fourteenth  Years  of  Her  Majesty,  Chapter  Seventy,  intituled  An
Act  empowering  the  Canterbury  Association  to  dispose  of  certain  Lands  in  New
Zealand,  or  of  an  Act  passed  in  the  Session  then  next  following,  Chapter  Eightyfour,
  to  alter  and  amend  the  said  first-mentioned  Act:  Provided  always,  that  on  the
Expiration  or  sooner  Determination  of  the  Functions,  Powers,  and  Authorities  now
vested  in  or  lawfully  exercised  by  the  said  Association,  the  Provisions  of  the  present
Act  shall  come  into  force  as  regards  the  Lands  to  which  the  said  Acts  relate.

LXXVI.  It  shall  be  lawful  for  the  Canterbury  Association,  at  any  Time  after
&amp;  Provincial  Council  shall  have  been  constituted  under  this  Act  for  the  Province
of  Canterbury,  to  transfer  to  the  said  Council  all  such  Functions,  Powers,
and  Authorities,  and  the  said  Council  is  hereby  empowered  to  accept  such
Transfer,  upon  such  Terms  and  Conditions  as  shall  be  agreed  upon  between  the  said
Council  and  the  said  Association:  Provided  always,  that  nothing  contained  in  such
Terms  and  Conditions  shall  interfere  with  the  Rights  of  Her  Majesty,  Her  Heirs  and
Successors,  or  of  the  New  Zealand  Company  respectively;  and  from  and  after  such
Time  as  shall  be  agreed  upon  between  the  said  Council  and  the  said  Association  the
said  Council  shall  have  and  be  entitled  to  exercise  all  the  said  Functions,  Powers,
and  Authorities.

LXXVII.  Nothing  in  this  Act  or  in  any  Act,  Law,  or  Ordinance  to  be  made
by  the  said  General  Assembly,  or  by  any  Provincial  Assembly,  shall  affect  or  interfere
with  so  much  of  an  Act  of  the  Session  holden  in  the  Fourteenth  and  Fifteenth
Years  of  Her  Majesty,  Chapter  Eighty-six,  intituled  An  Act  to  regulate  the  Affairs
of  certain  Settlements  established  by  the  New  Zealand  Company  in  New  Zealand,

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