WHEREAS on or about the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, an agreement for the lease of certain lands was entered into between the Government of the colony, the Provincial Government of Wellington, and certain private persons referred to in the said agreement (the terms and particulars of which said agreement are contained in a printed paper published in the Appendices of the House of Representatives for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and indexed as C.–6.): And whereas on or about the twelfth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, the Colonial Government confirmed the said agreement, and agreed to take steps to give effect to the same, and also, in consideration of the delay and expense to which the said private persons had been subjected, that, on the completion of the Crown’s title, the term of the lease to be granted should be extended to twenty-one years: And whereas the said agreement was again ratified by the Colonial Government on the twenty-fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine: And whereas it was provided in all of the said agreements above referred to that the necessary legislative power to give effect to such agreements should be applied for by the Colonial Government: