• Preamble

  The Preamble was repealed, as from 19 November 1907, by section 2 Statutes Repeal Act 1907 (1907 No 40). It read as follows: “WHEREAS by an Order in Council bearing date the ninth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, sections numbered 189 and 190 on the map of the Town of Inglewood were vested in the Inglewood Town Board in trust for a site for a Public Library and a Mechanics' Institute: And whereas, all of the said land not being immediately required for the purposes aforesaid, the Inglewood Town Board granted unto the persons hereinafter mentioned leases of portions of the said sections for the term of twenty-one years from the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, containing covenants that each of the lessees should, within six months from the granting of such leases, erect substantial buildings on the lands comprised in such leases, with a right to remove improvements effected by the lessees, and a right of renewal for a further term of twenty-one years: And whereas the several lessees, relying upon the validity of such leases, and in performance of the covenant to rebuild in each of the said leases, have expended considerable sums of money in erecting buildings on and effecting improvements to the several portions of the said sections respectively held by them: And whereas doubts have arisen as to the power of the said Inglewood Town Board to grant such leases as aforesaid, and it is desirable that such doubts should be set at rest, and the leases aforesaid confirmed and declared valid:”.

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—