WHEREAS by the sixth section of “The Mining Companies Act, 1872” (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), it is amongst other things enacted that in order to obtain the registration of any company formed for mining purposes under the said Act there must be lodged in the office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court for the judicial district within which it is proposed to carry on operations a memorandum signed by some person as the manager of such company, which shall contain the several matters and may be in the form contained in the Second Schedule to the said Act: Provided that if there be more than one Supreme Court office in such judicial district, then such memorandum shall be lodged at such one of the said offices as the Governor shall from time to time appoint to be the Registrar’s office for such district for the purposes of the First Part of the said Act:

And whereas the Supreme Court offices in Auckland, Nelson, and Dunedin were on the twenty-third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, duly appointed, by warrant under the hand of His Excellency the Governor, to be the Registrars’ offices for the “Northern,” “Nelson,” and “Otago and Southland” Judicial Districts respectively for the purposes mentioned in the First Part of the said Act, there being more than one Supreme Court office in each such judicial district:

And whereas prior to the said twenty-third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and before such Supreme Court offices were so appointed, memoranda of association in respect of certain mining companies were duly lodged in the said offices, and doubts have arisen as to whether such companies have been duly registered and incorporated under the said Act by reason of the premises, and it is expedient to set such doubts at rest: