WHEREAS by a Proclamation by His Honor James Macandrew, Esquire, as and being Superintendent of the Province of Otago, dated the seventh day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and published in the Otago Provincial Government Gazette of the eighth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, certain lands particularly described in the Third Schedule to the said Proclamation were, under and in pursuance of “The Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” and the several Ordinances of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of Otago amending the said Ordinance, constituted and declared to be the Corporation of the Town of South Dunedin, and certain provisions of the said “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” and the said amending Ordinances, were extended to the said Municipality of South Dunedin created by the said Proclamation: And whereas by a Proclamation by His Honor James Macandrew, Esquire, as and being Superintendent of the Province of Otago, dated the twenty-second day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and published in the Otago Provincial Government Gazette of the twenty-fourth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, certain lands particularly described in the Third Schedule to the said Proclamation were, under and in pursuance of “The Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” and the several Ordinances of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of Otago amending the said Ordinance, constituted and declared to he the Corporation of the Town of St. Hilda, and certain provisions of the said “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” and the said amending Ordinances, were extended to the said Municipality of St. Hilda created by the said Proclamation: And whereas doubts have arisen as to the power of the said Superintendent to make the said Proclamations: And whereas it is desirable to set such doubts at rest and to validate the said Proclamations: