New South Wales: Bathurst Hospital Act 1876 39 Vic (NSW)

39° VIC. 1876. Bathurst Hospital. BaravestHowrma Ary Act to authorize the sale of the site of the Preamble. Trustees authorized to sall. Apphcation of pro- ceeds of sale. Site to be approved by Governor. Bathurst Hospital and to provide for the expenditure of the money received there- from in the erection of suitable buildings for a like purpose on a new site. [2nd May, 1876.] HEREAS Richard Young Cousins J.P. Edward Gell J.P. Richard Machattie M.D. Edmund Webb J.P. (formerly M.P.) and Henry Rotton J.P. have been duly appointed and now are the Trustees of the land at Bathurst dedicated as a site for an hospital which said land is more particularly described in the Schedule hereto And whereas the puildings erected on the said land are inadequate and unfit for the requirements of the district and the site has become unsuitable for the purposes of a public hospital And whereas it is expedient that pro- vision should be made upon the acquisition ofa better site for the erection thereon of suitable buildings for suck hospital and that the Trustees for the time being of the said land should be empowered to sell and dispose of the same in order to raise a sum of money to be expended in defraying part of the cost of erecting on such better site suitable build- ings for the said hospital Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows :-— 1. It shall be lawful for the Trustees for the time being of the said Bathurst Hospital to sell and dispose of the said parcel of land described in the Schedule hereto by public auction or private contract and either in one lot or in several lots as they shall deem expedient for such price or prices as can be reasonably had or obtained for the same and to convey and assure the same or any portion or portions thereof when sold to the purchaser or purchasers thereof in fee simple freed and discharged from all trusts affecting the said land And the receipt in writing of the said Trustees for the purchase moneys arising from such sale or sales shall be a sufficient discharge to any and every purchaser of the said land or portions thereof and exonerate such purchaser from seeing to the application of the said moneys and from all liability in respect of the misapplication or non-application thereof. 2. The said Trustees and their successors shall stand possessed of the moneys arising from such sale or sales as aforesaid upon trust to apply the proceeds thereof in or towards the erection of a public hospital in the town of or in the vicinity of the town of Bathurst upon a suitable site for that purpose And the said Trustees and their successors shall also stand possessed of any moneys voted or to be voted by Parliament in aid of the building fund of the said hospital and also all other moneys coming to their hands as such Trustee¢ upon the like trusts as are hereinbefore declared in respect of the proceeds of sale of the said land And the receipts of any person or persons to whom any moneys shall be paid by the said Trustees or their successors under the provisions of this Act shall bea valid and complete discharge to the said Trustees and their successors for such moneys. 3. No expenditure of any of the said moneys shall be made upon any new site unless such new site shall have been approved by the Governor with the advice of the Executive Council And all buildings offices and their appurtenances to be erected on the land so approved of shall be constructed according to plans and specifications to he approved of by the Colonial Architect. 4. 1876. 39° VIC. 19 Lanucorth Roman Catholic Church Trustees. 4. No Trustee or Trustees under this Act shall be held TeSPON- Liability of trustees. sible for any involuntary losses or misapplication of any moneys coming to the hands of the said Trustees under the provisions of this Act unless such loss or misapplication shall have happened through the wilful neglect or default of the Trustees under this Act for the time being. SCHEDULE. Aut that piece or parcel of laud containing by admeasurement two acres two roods and ninetecn perches be the same more or less situated in the county parish and town of Bathurst allotment number sixteen of section number nine Cominenciag at the north corner of the section and bounded thence on the north-west by Bentwick-street. south- westerly five chains and thirteen links on the south-west by the north-eastern boundary- line of allotment one south-easterly five chains eleven links on the south-east by the north-western line of allotment fifteen north-easterly five chains and twenty links to Howick-street and on the north-east by that strect north. westerly five chains four links to the point of commencement.