WHEREAS some time since the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Wellington (hereinafter called “the Corporation”) reclaimed certain land from the Harbour of Port Nicholson, and agreed with divers persons, whose land was injuriously affected by such reclamation, to sell to such persons portions of the land so reclaimed at a price agreed upon, and such persons, in consideration of such sale, severally agreed to release the Corporation from all claims for compensation which they had or might have in consequence of their lands having been injuriously affected by such reclamation: And whereas a plan of the land so agreed to be sold was prepared and deposited in the Land Transfer Office at Wellington, and numbered three hundred and thirty-one: And whereas Jacob Joseph, in pursuance of the aforesaid agreement, purchased from the Corporation the lot numbered nineteen on the said plan, and, believing from the tenor of the said agreement that the eastern boundary of the said lot was continuous with the eastern boundary of the land belonging to him, the said Jacob Joseph, so that the western boundary of the street known as Chew’s Lane was a straight line, proceeded to erect a brick store on the said lot numbered nineteen: And whereas, since the erection of the said brick store, it has been ascertained that the eastern boundary of the said lot numbered nineteen, as shown on the said plan, is not continuous with the eastern boundary of the other land belonging to the said Jacob Joseph, and that the said brick building encroaches on the street shown on the said plan as the extension of Chew’s Lane: And whereas the Corporation are unable to sell any more land to the said Jacob Joseph because of the deposit of the said plan: And whereas it is expedient that power should be given to alter such plan, and to enable the Corporation to sell certain portion of the land comprised in such plan to the said Jacob Joseph: