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A Compendium of Official Documents Relative to Native Affairs in the South Island. Volume Two.

Enclosure in No. 25. — Copy of Crown grant to be issued for land to be appropriated as an endowment for Native schools

Enclosure in No. 25.
Copy of Crown grant to be issued for land to be appropriated as an endowment for Native schools.

Victoria, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, and so forth:

To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting: Whereas a school is about to be established at—in the Province of New Munster, New Zealand, under the superintendence of the Right Reverend George Augustus, Lord Bishop of New Munster, New Zealand, for the education of children of our subjects of all races, and of children of other poor and destitute persons, being inhabitants of islands in the Pacific Ocean: And whereas it would promote the objects of the said institution to set apart a certain piece o[gap — reason: damage]f parcel of land in the neighbourhood hereof, for the use and towards the maintenance and support of the same, which piece or parcel of land has, by a deed from the Natives, been ceded for the support of the said school: Now know ye, that we, for us, our heirs and successors, do hereby grant unto the said George Augustus, Bishop of New Zealand, all that piece or parcel of land situate &c.;—and the boundaries being more particularly delineated in the plan drawn in the margin of these presents, together with the rents, issues, and proceeds thereof, to hold unto the said George Augustus, Lord Bishop of New Zealand, and his successors, in trust, nevertheless, and for the use and towards the maintenance of the said school, so long as religious education, industrial training and instruction in the English language shall be given to the youth educated therein or maintained thereat.

In testimony whereof we have caused this our grant to be sealed with the seal of our said Province.

Witness our trusty and well beloved, &c.