An Act empowering the Canterbury Association to dispose of certain Lands in New Zealand.
WHEREAS by Letters Patent dated the Twelfth Day of February in the Fourth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty certain Persons therein named were constituted Body Corporate, with perpetual Succession and Common Seal, by the Name of "The New Zealand Company," for the Purpose of purchasing, acquiring, and alienating Lands within Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and for other the Purposes therein set forth: And whereas Her Majesty on the Twenty-third Day of December ...