WHEREAS the parcel of land described in the Schedule hereto was, by a grant from the Crown made under the provisions of “The Public Reserves Act, 1854,” and dated the twenty-eighth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, granted to the Superintendent of the Province of Otago and his successors upon trust as a site for a public hospital: And whereas the said parcel of land having been found unsuitable as a site for the purposes of a hospital, it was by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago passed in the thirtieth year of the reign of Her present Majesty (Session XXIII., No. 257), shortly intituled “The Dunedin Reserves Management Ordinance, 1867,” enacted that the said parcel of land should be and the same was thereby transferred to and vested in the Corporation of the City of Dunedin and its successors, as a corporate body, to be held by the said Corporation and its successors in trust for a public market for the City of Dunedin and its inhabitants: And whereas the Corporation of the City of Dunedin are desirous to use a portion of the said parcel of land as a site for a town hall, fire-brigade station, marketplace, and other buildings for municipal purposes, and it is expedient that they should be empowered so to do: