The Ordinance mentioned.
The necessity for this Ordinance is as follows:-
The Reverend Ferdinand Genähr purchased the lot in question and took up the usual Crown Lease. In February 1873 he assigned it to four gentlemen who were then Trustees of the Rhenish Missionary Society;
on the 25th December, 1858.
In 1876 it was found that these Trustees were possessed of no more title to the land than the lease gave them. The Surveyor General therefore requested them to surrender their lease and to take out a new one. They duly did so and on 8 February 1877 a new lease was granted for the land but instead of it being granted in the name of Christian Wilhelm Louis and Wilhelm Heinrich Wilthey (the then surviving Trustees) simply as joint lessees, it was granted to them under the description of Trustees for the Rhenish Missionary Society which is an unincorporated body and took away from the Trustees by the description their power of making a marketable title to the property and has rendered the property practically unsaleable. In order to relieve the present representatives of the Rhenish Missionary Society of this disability this Ordinance has been passed.
(Signed) Edw J. Ackroyd,
Acting Attorney General