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New Zealand: Acts affecting Native Lands, 1886, 1888-91 and 1894-95

1888, No. 7.—Local and Personal. An Act to grant certain Concessions to Mr. Joshua Jones in regard to the Mokau-Mohakatino Block

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New Zealand. Analysis.

Title.
Preamble.
1.Short Title.
2.Certificate of title to be issued forthwith.
3.Partition of said block to be made by Native Land Court.
4.Lease of Joshua Jones may be registered.
5.Certificate of Native Lands Frauds Commissioner.
6.No further duty to be paid.
7.Rights conferred by "Special Powers and Contracts Act, 1885," maintained.

1888, No. 7.—Local and Personal. Title. An Act to grant certain Concessions to Mr. Joshua Jones in regard to the Mokau-Mohakatino Block.

[30th August, 1888.
Preamble.Whereas by "The Special Powers and Contracts Act, 1885," certain concessions were granted to one Joshua Jones: And whereas the said Joshua Jones having alleged that such concessions were interfered with by "The Native Land Administration Act, 1886," and that certain negotiations which had been entered into by him had been interfered with by the Government and its officers, a Royal Commission was lately appointed for the purpose of inquiring into such allegations, and such Commission having made its report, it is expedient to make the following enactments:

Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1.Short Title. The Short Title of this Act is "The Mokau-Mohakatino Act. 1888."
2.Certificate of title to be issued forthwith. The certificate of title by the Native Land Court to the Mokau-Mohakatino Block No. 1 shall be forthwith issued.
3.Partition of said block to be made by Native Land Court. The Native Land Court shall, as soon as conveniently may be after the passing hereof, make partition of the said Block No. 1 in order to ascertain and allocate all the respective interests and shares of the Natives who shall have signed a certain lease from Native owners of the said block to the said Joshua Jones up to the date of the sitting of the Court, and the Court may require the Surveyor-General to make and furnish an approved plan of the portion of the said block to which the Natives who shall have signed the said lease shall be found entitled; and the said Joshua Jones may, until such sitting, proceed to obtain all or any of the remaining signatures of the Natives requisite to complete such lease.page 45
4.It shall be lawful for the said lease of the said Joshua Jones Lease of Joshua Jones may be registered. to be registered in manner provided by "The Native Land Court Act 1886 Amendment Act, 1888," against the shares so ascertained as aforesaid of the persons who shall have signed the said lease. The Registrar of the Native Land Court is hereby prohibited, for a period of three months after the interests shall have been ascertained as aforesaid, except with the consent of the said Joshua Jones, from registering any other dealing with the said land.
5.Subject to the certificate of the Native Lands Frauds Commissioner,Certificate of Native Lands Frauds Commissioner. such lease shall be deemed a good, valid, and effectual lease of all the shares and interests so ascertained and allocated as aforesaid, to the extent to which they are comprised in the premises demised by the said lease.
6.No further or other duty than has been heretofore paid on the No further duty to be paid. said lease shall be charged or payable thereon under "The Stamp Duties Act, 1882," or "The Stamp Act Amendment Act, 1885.".
7.Nothing in "The Native Land Administration Act, 1886," Rights conferred by "Special Powers Contracts Act, 1885," maintained. or any other Act, shall be deemed to have repealed or affected the rights, powers, and privileges conferred, or intended to be conferred, upon the said Joshua Jones by "The Special Powers and Contracts Act, 1885," and the same shall remain in full force and effect.