To all to whom these presents shall come:

Know ye that for good considerations, us thereunto moving: We, for us, our heirs and successors, d[gap — reason: damage] hereby grant unto the superintendent of the Province of Nelson and his successors, superintendents of the said Province, all that parcel of land in the Province of Nelson, in our Colony of New Zealand, situate in the City of Nelson, containing by admeasurement one acre, be the same more or less, being section numbered 203 on the plan of the said city, bounded on the northward by Bridge-street (170 links); on the eastward, partly by land previously granted to the Superintendent, and partly by Crown land (655 links); on the southward, by section numbered 202 on the said plan (170 links); and on the westward, by sections numbered 200 and 201 on the said plan (655 links), as the same is delineated on the plan in the margin hereof, with all the rights and appurtenances thereto belonging, to hold unto the said Superintendent of the Province of Nelson, and his successors, in trust as a site for public buildings for the use of the Provincial Government of Nelson.

In testimony whereof we have caused this our grant to be sealed with the seal of our Colony of New Zealand.

Witness our trusty and well-beloved Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of our most distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Colony of New Zealand at Wellington, this 5th day of December, in the thirty-fifth year of our reign, and in the year of our Lord 1871.