WHEREAS by “The Otago Dock Act, 1883” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), the Otago Harbour Board was enabled to construct at Port Chalmers a graving-dock of sufficient dimensions at least to admit vessels drawing twenty-five feet of water, with power to borrow money for the purpose; but the said Act contains no other provisions as to the dimensions of the said dock: And whereas by “The Otago Dock Act 1883 Amendment Act, 1885,” the Otago Dock Trust was duly constituted, and all the powers and authority conferred by the said Act upon the said Otago Harbour Board in relation to the construction of a graving-dock at Port Chalmers and of borrowing money for the purpose were transferred to the Otago Dock Trust: And whereas the Otago Dock Trust, in pursuance of the powers and authority so conferred upon it, has borrowed the sum of seventy-five thousand pounds, and has entered into a contract for the construction of a graving-dock at Port Chalmers of the following dimensions: length on floor, five hundred feet; entrance width at coping-level, seventy feet; width inside dock at coping-level, ninety feet; width inside dock at bilge-level, sixty-seven feet; depth of dock on invert, twenty-seven feet; depth of dock on floor, thirty feet; depth of water on invert at high water (mean ordinary spring tides), twenty-two feet: And whereas the said graving-dock is now in course of construction: And whereas doubts have arisen as to the meaning of section four of the said Act and of the expression “a graving-dock of sufficient dimensions at least to admit vessels drawing twenty-five feet of water” therein, and it has been suggested that the dimensions of the said graving-dock now in course of construction do not comply with the provisions of the said section: And whereas it is desirable to remove such doubts: