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11. The Cam Bridge Ordinance 1867.
Analysis. Preamble.
1. Bridge may be erected and maintained.
2. Said Bridge to be free.
3. Title.
Whereas by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand enituled “The Provincial Councils Powers Extension Act 1863” it is enacted that whenever any Ordinance shall be passed by any Provincial Council for the purpose of authorising the making or carrying on of any work of utility to the public or to the inhabitants of some particular district such law may so far as may be necessary for the making or carrying on of such work of utility affect any Public Street Road or Highway or the bed of any River Stream or Creek although the same respectively may be the lands of the Crown.
And whereas it is for the benefit of the public and of the inhabitants of the Mandeville and Rangiora Road District that the Road Board of the Mandeville an Rangiora District and their successors shoul have power to construct and mainain a Bridge over the River Cam at the place hereinafter mentioned:
Be it therefore enacted by the Superintendent of the said Province with the
advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof as
follows:
1. Bridge may be erected and maintained.
It shall be lawful for the Road Board of Mandeville and Rangiora District out of their own proper revenues to erect a Bridge for general traffic in the bed of and over and across the River Cam at a place about twenty chains from the junction of the Cam with the north branch of the Waimakariri the form an mode of
construction of such Bridge shall be subject to the approval of the
Superintendent and Executive Council.
2. Said Bridge to be free.
The said Bridge shall be and remain a public free Bridge.
3. Title.
This Ordinance shall be entituled and may be cited as “The Cam Bridge
Ordinance 1867.
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