WHEREAS certain lands situate in the Province of Marlborough and specified in the Schedules to this Act have from time to time been set apart as Public Reserves under the provisions of the Laws for the time being in force in that Province relating to the Waste Lands of the Crown And whereas by a Proclamation of the Superintendent of the said Province published on or about the twenty-seventh day of February one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six in the Marlborough Provincial Government Gazette it was declared that such Reserves being the lands specified in the First Schedule to this Act should from and after that time be deemed to be Waste Lands of the Crown and be dealt with in accordance with the Land Regulations then in force in the said Province as if the same had not been reserved as aforesaid And whereas the lands specified in the Second Schedule to this Act were not included in the said Proclamation And whereas the lands specified in both the Schedules to this Act being part of the lands so reserved as aforesaid have since the publication of the said Proclamation been sold or otherwise dealt with under the Land Regulations in force within the said Province And whereas such sales were made without authority of law but the persons who have purchased or leased such lands having done so without fraud or collusion it would be just that their title to such land should after due inquiry be confirmed