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

Analysis of the Statutes of New Zealand Specially Affecting the Aboriginal Natives. — Native Trust Ordinance. — In the Eighth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria

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Analysis of the Statutes of New Zealand Specially Affecting the Aboriginal Natives.
Native Trust Ordinance.
In the Eighth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria.

Session III, No. IX.

"An Ordinance for appointing a Board of Trustees for the Management of Property to be set apart for the Education and Advancement of the Native Race."

[Passed the 29th of June, 1844.]

Analysis.

  • Title.
  • Preamble.

I.—The Trustees and their Power.

1.Who to be Trustees.
2.Vacancies how to be supplied.
3.Trust Property to vest in new and old Trustees.
4.Trustees how to be styled.
5.Trusts on which property to be holden.
6.Property not to be sold or incumbered.
7.Power of Trustees to grant Leases.
8.And to exchange.
9.All incumbrances to be void.
10.Trust of property set apart for benefit of half-caste Children.
11.On failure of their descendants, property to be holden by Trustees on general trusts of Ordinance.
12.Certain half-caste Children to be deemed "Native people."
13.Power of Trustees to appoint Agents.
14.Schoolmasters, &c.
15.And Secretary.

II.—Proceedings of Trustees.

16.Annual Meeting.
17.Special Meetings.
18.Ordinary Meetings.
19.Senior Member to preside.
20.And to have a casting vote.
21.Business of "Annual Meeting," general statement of affairs of Trust.
22.Estimate and appropriation of income.
23.Business of "Special Meetings," &c., Agents, &c., to be appointed.
24.Forms, &c., of Leases to be prescribed.
25.Ordinary Meetings.
26.Leases to be sealed with seal of Trust.
27.Trustees to make annual report to Secretary of State
28.Commencement of Ordinance.

The last clause of the above Ordinance is as follows:—

"This Ordinance shall not come into operation until it shall have received the Royal confirmation, and until such confirmation shall have been notified accordingly in the New Zealand Government Gazette, by order of His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand for the time being."

The Royal confirmation was conveyed to the Governor (Parliamentary Papers, May, 1846, page 84), but no notification thereof was ever made in the Government Gazette.