WHEREAS by the eightieth section of an Act of the fifteenth year of Her Majesty, chapter seventy-two, intituled An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand [ed note: 15 & 16 Vict, c 72] it was provided, that for the purposes of that Act the said colony should be held to include the territories therein mentioned: And whereas it is expedient to alter the limits of the said Colony as declared by the said Act: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: