WHEREAS it is expedient that a Public Library should be established in the City of Christchurch: And whereas sections four hundred and five and four hundred and six in the said city, with the buildings thereon, and also certain hooks and other chattel property, are now vested in certain persons as Trustees for the members of an undertaking entered into for literary and scientific purposes, formerly called “The Christchurch Mechanics’ Institute,” but now known as “The Christchurch Literary Institute,” and hereinafter called “the said Institute,” and such land and other property is now held by the Trustees subject to the direction and control of a Committee of Management to be annually elected by the members of the said Institute: And whereas the said Committee, with the consent of the general body of members of the said Institute, have signified their willingness to hand over the said land and property for the purposes of a Public Library: And whereas doubts have arisen as to the power of the Trustees to dispose of the said property for such purpose, and some of the Trustees are absent from the Province of Canterbury, and it is expedient that power should be given to the Trustees in the said Province to transfer such property to the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury for the purpose aforesaid: