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in New Zealand of the other part Whereas by various Crown grants bearing date respectively as follows one bearing date the thirteenth day of October one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two two bearing date the fourteenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three two bearing date the tenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven and one bearing date the seventh day of July one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven certain allotments or parcels of land particularly described in the schedules marked A B and C hereunto annexed were granted and assured unto the said Bishop ot New Zealand and his successors for ever And whereas all the aforesaid allotments or parcels of land are now held by the said Bishop of New Zealand upon trust for the support and maintenance of Native Schools and upon and for such trusts intents and purposes as are hereinafter more particularly set forth And whereas by the constitution agreed to at a general conference of Bishops clergy and laity assembled at Auckland on the thirteenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven it was amongst other things provided that the General Synod may from time to time under the hand of any person authorised by it in that behalf appoint a trustee or trustees for the whole or any portion of the property held in trust for or on behalf of the said General Synod and may from time to time as often as it shall think proper by any such writing cancel and revoke every such appointment and that every trustee in whom any property shall be vested shall hold the same with the powers and subject to the limitations restrictions declarations and provisions contained in the several clauses of the schedule to the said constitution annexed And whereas by an Act of the General Assembly intituled " The Bishop of New Zealand Trusts Act, 1858 " after reciting that certain allotments or parcels of land hereditaments and premises had from time to time been granted conveyed and assured unto the said George Augustus Bishop of New Zealand and his successors Bishops of New Zealand it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the said Bishop of New Zealand to convey and assure the said hereditaments and premises or any of them to such trustee or trustees as the said General Synod shah appoint in that behalf subject nevertheless to the trust and for the intents and purposes for which the same were respectively conveyed to or were held in trust by the said George Augustus Bishop of New Zealand And whereas at a meeting of the General Synod held at Nelson on the twenty-fourth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two it was resolved by the said General Synod that the said Charles John Bishop of Wellington Venerable Octavius Hadfield William MacLeod Bannatyne George Hunter and Robert Stokes the trustees for the aforesaid allotments or parcels of land And whereas by a resolution of the standing commission passed at a meeting held at Auckland on the twelfth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine the said George Augustus Bishop of New Zealand was duly appointed chairman thereof And whereas an instrument bearing date the thirteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two under the hand of George Augustus Bishop of New Zealand and chairman of the standing commission the said General Synod hath appointed the said parties hereunto of the second part to be trustees for the management of all the aforesaid allotments or parcels of land : Now this deed witnesseth that in exercise of the authority in him vested by the said recited Act and by virtue of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf the said George Augustus Bishop of New Zealand doth hereby, convey and assure unto the said Charles John Bishop of Wellington Venerable Octavius Hadfield William MacLeod Bannantyne George Hunter and Robert Stokes and their heirs all the said allotments or parcels of land comprised in the hereinbefore recited Crown grants being the lands particularly described in the schedules marked A B and C hereunto annexed with all the appurtenances thereto belonging upon the trusts hereinafter mentioned that is to say upon trust that they the said trustees shall and do stand seized and possessed of a'l the lands comprised in the schedule marked A for the education of children of Her Majesty's subjects of all races and of children of other poor and destitute persons being inhabitants ot islands in the Pacific Ocean so long as religious education and industrial training and instruction in the English language shall, be given to the youth educated therein or maintained thereat and upon trust that the said trustees shah and do stand seized and possessed of all the lands comprised in the said schedule B as an endowment for a school to be maintained at Te Aute in the district ot Ahuriri for the benefit of the aboriginal inhabitants of New Zealand and upon trust that the said trustees shall and do stand seized and possessed of all the lands comprised in the said schedule marked C as an endowment for a school to be district of Ahuriri aforesaid for the education of children of Her Majesty's subjects of both races in New Zealand And as to all the lands hereinbefore conveyed and assured unto the said trustees upon trust that the said trustees shall and do stand seized of and interested in the said allotments and parcels of land and the rents issues and profits thereof for and on behalf of the said General Synod otherwise shall and do convey assure or assign the same upon and for or according to such trusts intents objects and purposes and under and subject to such powers provisions declarations and agreements and in such manner as the said General Synod shall from time to time direct- or appoint in writing under the hand of any person authorised by the General Synod in that behalf Provided always that all money arising from any sale of the said trust property or any part thereof or received by any trustees or trustee for equality of exchange of the said trust property or any part thereof after payment of the costs and expenses payable by such trustees or trustee in relation to such sale or exchange shall be expended in the absolute purchase of other freehold lands or hereditaments in New Zealand as the General Synod shall direct which lands or hereditaments so purchased together with all lands or hereditaments received in exchange shall thereupon be vested in trustees for and on behalf of the General Synod upon and for the same trusts and purposes as the said lands so sold or exchanged were holden And this deed further witnesseth that each of them the said trustees doth hereby declare his submission to the authority of the said General Synod and his consent to be bound by all the provisions of the said constitution and by all the regulations which may have been or which may from time to time be issued by the authority of the General Synod and each of them the said trustees doth hereby undertake to resign his appointment as