The Short Title of this Act is “The Thorndon Reclamation Act 1882 Amendment Act, 1888.”

The words “company,” “contract,” and “undertaking,” used in this Act, shall have the same meanings respectively as are given to them in “The Thorndon Reclamation Act, 1882.”

Section five of “The Thorndon Reclamation Act, 1882,” is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof the following is enacted:—

The railway and other works of the company connected therewith being now completed, the Governor may grant to the company the land described in the First Schedule to this Act.

The land described in the Second Schedule hereto is hereby declared to be part of the road or street known as Thorndon Quay, in the City of Wellington, and the same is hereby vested in the Mayor, Councillors, and citizens of the City of Wellington for use as a public street of the said city.

It shall be lawful for the said Mayor, Councillors, and citizens, and for the present or any future contractor for the reclamation work at Te Aro contract number three, to continue to use and maintain for the purposes and until the completion of such work the tram-line now laid upon the said land, and to run engines and trucks thereon, but so, nevertheless, that it shall be lawful for the Minister for Public Works at any time, whether the said work shall be completed or not, by one calendar month’s notice in writing to be left at the office of the Town Clerk for the City of Wellington, to determine the license given by this clause; and in case any such notice shall be given the said Mayor, Councillors, and citizens, and the said contractor shall, at the expiration of the said period of one calendar month after service as aforesaid of such notice, cease to run engines and trucks upon the said tram-line, and shall, so soon as reasonably may be thereafter, take up and remove the said tram-line

The Governor may, if he think fit, in any particular case, in lieu of making a Crown grant in fee-simple under section forty-six of “The Hailways Construction and Land Act, 1881,” grant to the company a right to use such Crown lands as may, in the opinion of the Governor, be necessary for the use or maintenance of the railway and buildings to be used upon the same or in connection therewith; subject, however, to any reasonable limitations of time, conditions, or restrictions he may think fit to impose.