Whereas by a certain deed of grant bearing date the twenty- second day of January one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two under the seal of the Colony of New Zealand all that piece or parcel of land certified by admeasurement to be six acres more or less situate in the District of Awatere in the Province of Marlborough and Colony of New Zealand and being part of section number forty-nine on the plan of said district bounded on the northward by a public road one chain in width three hundred links on the eastward two thousand links and southward three hundred links by other parts of said section number forty- nine and on the westward by lands previously granted to the Bishop of New Zealand with the approaches thereto was granted unto Thomas Dickson Nicholson John Tinline Alexander Mowatt George McRae and William Atkinson in trust for the body of Christians then or thereafter residing in the Province of Marlborough aforesaid and adhering to and following the doctrines contained in the Westminster confession of faith and in the larger and smaller catechism as approved by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and forty-seven and to the Presbyterian form of church government by kirk sessions presbyteries and provincial or general synods and upon no other trust or interest or purpose whatever

And whereas Thomas Dickson Nicholson and George McRae died leaving the said John Tinline Alexander Mowatt and William Atkinson the other trustees then surviving

And whereas the said parcel of land is unsuitable for the purposes for which it was granted and it is expedient that the same should be sold and other lands purchased in lieu thereof and exchanged therefor