WHEREAS David Davides, in or about the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, intermarried with Miriama Makawa, an aboriginal native, by whom, previous to such marriage, he had a daughter, called or known by the name of Mary Davides: And whereas the said Mary Davides was at the time of her death, which occurred on or about the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the eighteenth year of her age, entitled to a piece of land containing one hundred acres, situate in the parish of Waioeka and County of Opotiki, in the Province of Auckland, and a Crown grant thereof was made and executed in her name by the then Governor of New Zealand, on the ninth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight: And whereas by the operation of “The Half-caste Disability Removal Act, 1860,” the said Mary Davides was before her death legitimatized, but the provisions of that Act do not entitle the said David Davides to succeed as her heir-at-law, and it is expedient that provision should be made enabling him so to succeed his said daughter: