The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Wellington City Reserves Act 1872 Amendment Act, 1877.”

The Governor may convey to James Coutts Crawford, William Waring Taylor, and Henry Bunny, the Trustees of the Wellington Hospital, those portions of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto as Lots one and three, to be held by them, the Trustees, in trust for the maintenance of the Wellington Hospital.

The Governor may convey to the Wellington Benevolent Institution that part of the same reserve, described as Lot two in the Schedule hereto, to be held by the said Institution in trust for the purposes of an Orphanage.

The Wellington Hospital Trustees and the Wellington Benevolent Institution may respectively manage and deal with the land so to be respectively conveyed to them in such way as they respectively may think fit, with power to lease by public auction such land for any term not exceeding forty-two years in possession, on such conditions as they respectively may think fit, excepting always that no fine or premium may be taken for any such lease, but not otherwise to alienate the same or any part thereof, and apply the rent and annual profits therefrom respectively towards the maintenance of the Wellington Hospital and of an Orphanage, or for the support of orphans: Provided always that it shall not be lawful to the Trustees of the Wellington Hospital or to the Wellington Benevolent Institution respectively, to devote such rents or annual profits or any part thereof to the maintenance of a denominational Hospital or Orphanage respectively.