• Preamble

  WHEREAS it is desirable to provide an endowment for the various Libraries within the Peninsula County, in the Provincial District of Otago: And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto has been reserved for fortification purposes, but has not been otherwise dealt with: And whereas it is desirable provision should be made for vesting the management of the said land in trustees, with power to apply the rents and profits thereof in and towards the maintenance of the various Public Libraries at present established within the said Peninsula County:

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—