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Aldred, William Hough, Adam Jackson, John Riley, and Richard
Wallis, and the survivors of them, and the heirs and assigns of such
survivor upon trust, to permit the said land and all buildings thereon
erected or to be erected to be for ever appropriated and used as and
for a chapel and school-house for the use of the people called Method-
ists, in the connexion established by the late Reverend John Wesley.

AND WHEREAS the said site and the buildings erected thereon as afore-
said have become inappropriate for the purposes of the said trust, and
the said trustees are desirous of selling and disposing of the same,
and of investing the moneys to arise from such sale in the purchase
of another and more appropriate site for and the erection thereon
of suitable buildings to be appropriated and used for the purposes
of the said trust.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand as
follows:

1. It shall be lawful for the trustees or trustee for the time
   being of the said piece or parcel of land, buildings, and premises, so
   appropriated and used as and for a chapel and school-house for the
   use of the people called Methodists, in the connexion established by
   the late Reverend John Wesley, and situated within the said town
   of Nelson as aforesaid, at any time after the passing of this Act,
   absolutely to make sale and dispose of the said trust premises,
   either by public auction or by private contract, and in such manner
   as the said trustees or trustee for the time being shall think fit, and
   to convey the same trust premises when sold to the person or per-
   sons who shall agree to become the purchaser or purchasers there-
   of.

2. The said trustees or trustee for the time being shall, imme-
   diately after such sale, lay out and invest the money which shall
   arise from such sale in the purchase of an appropriate site within
   the said town of Nelson, and in the erection thereupon of a chapel
   and school-house; and the said trustees or trustee for the time be-
   ing, and the survivors and survivor of them, and the heirs and as-
   signs of such survivor, shall stand and be seized of the heredita-
   ments so to be purchased as aforesaid, and of the chapel and school-
   house to be erected and built thereon as aforesaid, upon trust to
   permit the same to be for ever appropriated and used as and for a
   chapel and school-house for the use of the people called Metho-
   dists, in the connexion established by the late Reverend John
   Wesley.

3. Every receipt which shall be given by the said trustees or
   trustee for the time being for the purchase-money of the heredita-
   ments hereby authorised to be sold, shall be a good, valid, and suffi-
   cient acquittance for the same; and every sale which shall be made,
   and every contract for sale which shall be entered into, and every
   conveyance which shall be executed by the said trustees or trustee
   for the time being, under the authority of this Act, shall be bind-
   ing and conclusive on all persons claiming any benefit or interest
   under the trusts of the said Deed of Grant, of the sixth day of
   September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, saving always

Power to sell land
&c. at Nelson.

Trustees to invest pro-
ceeds in purchase of
other land and to erect
buildings and hold
same upon trusts for
use of Wesleyan Me-
thodists,

Trustees receipts to be
sufficient discharges.