The Short Title of this Act is “The Auckland Harbour Board Act, 1879.”

It shall be lawful for the said Auckland Harbour Board, and the said Board is hereby empowered and authorized, to demise and lease, for a period not exceeding ninety-nine years, at a peppercorn rental, to the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Auckland the land on the south side of the said road so constructed as aforesaid in Free-man’s Bay, being all that piece or parcel of land, part of the foreshore of the Harbour of Auckland, bounded on the North by the road now in course of construction over the said foreshore, connecting Drake Street with Franklin Road or Street; on the South-west and East by the said Franklin Road; the northern portion of the road bounding Section forty-one of the City of Auckland and Drake Street aforesaid: Provided always that the covenants and powers which, by the provisions of sections twenty and twenty-one of the Conveyancing Ordinance of New Zealand, number ten of Session II., are implied in leases, shall not be inserted or be deemed to be implied in any lease or leases to be granted under this Act, in the same manner as if the covenants and powers in the said sections of the said Ordinance had been expressly negatived, in manner provided by section twenty-six of the said Ordinance, in any such lease or leases to be granted hereunder.