The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 44
Roads, Streets, Etc
Roads, Streets, Etc.
160. The Crown shall have the right to take all necessary
roads through any unsurveyed rural or pastoral lands after any sale or other disposal thereof, at any time previous to the survey of the same, without paying compensation for the land taken for any such roads. But after any rural or pastoral lands have been surveyed and sold, the right of taking necessary roads through any such lands may only be exercised within five years after survey of the said lands, and on the payment by the Crown for any land taken for such roads of an amount equal to twice the amount paid by the original purchaser from the Crown for the land so taken.
Reservations for roads.
161. The Governor, by notice in the Gazette, may from
time to time proclaim as a street or road, or as town or suburban lands, any portion or portions of Crown lands, and such town or suburban lands shall be sold by auction in the manner herein provided for the sale of town and suburban lands, and the lands upon which such street or road shall have been proclaimed shall be and be deemed to be thenceforward dedicated to the public.
Governor may proclaim town and suburban lands, roads, &c., dedicated.
162. When the course of any road has been or is hereafter
altered or is about to be altered, if the owner of the land over which the road in its altered state passes or is intended to pass be willing to exchange such land or any part of it for the land traversed by such road in its former or its then present state, or for any part thereof, the Governor may, upon such terms as are mutually agreed on, accept such exchange, and may execute the proper grants or conveyances accordingly: And the Governor may do all things necessary in or towards the completion of any arrangement at any time heretofore made by competent authority in respect of the deviation of the course of any such road.
Governor may exchange lands for roads.