New South Wales: Cootamundry Roman Catholic Church Land Sale Act of 1884 48 Vic (NSW)

An Act to enable the Right Reverend William Lanigan the Very Reverend Patrick Dunne and John ffurley junior as Trustees of certain land in the county of [larden parish of Cootamundry (village of Cootamundry) to sell the said Jand and to provide for the appropriation of the proceeds thereof. [29th July, 1884. | CooTAMUNDRY Roman Catno1i¢c Cnourcu Lanp SALE. ATILEREAS by a grant from the Crown bearing date the tenth Preamble. day of May in the year of our Lord onc thousand cight hundred and seventy-seven the land specified in the First Schedule hereto was granted unto the said Right Reverend William Lanigan the Very Reverend Patrick Dunne Michacl Quinlan and John ILurley junior their heirs and assigns upon trust for the erection thercon of a %oman Catholic church And whereas by a grant from the Crown bearing date the tenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven the land specified in the Second Schedule heretowas granted unto the Right Reverend William Lanigan the Very Reverend Patrick Dunne Michael Quinlan and John ILurley junior their heirs and assigns upon trust for the appropriation thereof as the site of a dwelling-house garden and other appurtenances for the clergyman duly appointed. to officiate in the Roman Catholic church Cootamundry And whereas since the date of the said grants the said Michael Quinlan departed this life And whereas it has been found that Power to scll. Disposal of proeceds. Short title. 48° VIC. 1884. Cootamundry Roman Catholic Church Land Sale. that the said sites for a church and presbytery are unsuitable for the purposes for which they were respectively granted and it is expedient that the said land should be sold and that the proceeds to arise from such sale should be applied in or towards the purchase of. another piece of land in the said village of Cootamundry ina more suitable position as a site for a Roman Catholic church and presbytery and the erection of such church and presbytery thereon and for other purposes herein- after mentioned 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 said Right Reverend William Lanigan the Very Reverend Patrick Dunne and John Hurley junior hereinafter styled Trustees or other the 'Trustees or Trustee for the time being to sell and dispose of the said land described in the Schedules hereto either by public auction or private contract and either in one lot or several lots as they shall deem most expedient and for such price or prices as can be had or obtained for the same and upon such terms and conditions of sale as the said Trustees may deem expedient and to buy in the said lands or any part or parts thercof at any auction sale or to rescind or vary the terms of any contract for the sale of the said lands or any part or parts thereof and when sold to convey transfer and assure the same or any part or parts thereof in fee simple to the purchaser or purchasers thercof his her or their heirs or assigns freed and discharged from cach and all the trusts affecting the same and the receipt in writing of the said Trustees their heirs or assigns for any money arising from such sale or sales shall be an effectual and absolute discharge to the purchaser or purchasers of the said land or any part or parts thereof and shall exonerate him or them from seeing to the application of any procecds of such sale or sales from all liability as to the misapplication or non-application thereof. 2. The said 'lrustees their heirs or assigns shall stand possessed of all moneys arising from cach and every such sale or sales as aforc- said and after the payment of the actual and reasonable expenses of such sale or sales and of this Act upon trust to apply the proceeds of such sale or sales in or towards the purchase of another piece or pieces of land in the said village of Cootamundry as a site or sites for the erection thereon of a Roman Catholic church and presbytery and to apply the remainder of the said moneys (if any) which shall not be required for the purposes aforesaid in or towards the erection of a Roman Catholic church and presbytery upon the said land or lands to be purchased as aforesaid and the receipts of any person or persons to whom any moneys shall be paid under the provisions of this Act shall be valid and complete discharges to the Trustees their heirs and assigns for such moneys. 8. This Act may be cited as the " Cootamundry Roman Catholic Church Land Sale Act of 1884." SCHEDULES. 1884. 48° VIC. Lingineering Association Incorporation. SCHEDULES. FIRST SCIHEDULE. All that piece or parcel of land in our said Colony containing by admcasurement two roods be the same more or lexs situated in the county of Harden and parish of Cootamundry village of Cootamundry allotment six of section twenty-four Commencing at the northern corner of the section and bounded thence on the north-west by Thompson-strect south-westerly two chains on the south-west by the north-eastern boundary of allotment seven being part of the appropriation for a Roman Catholic church south-easterly at right angles to Thompson-street two chains fifty links to a lane on the south-east by that lance north-easterly parallel to Thompson-strect two chains to Wallendoon-street and on the north-east by that street uorth-westerly two chains fifty links to the point of commencement. SECOND SCHEDULE. All that piece or parcel of land in our said Colony containing by admeasurement one acre be the same more or less situated in the county of Harden and parish of Cootamundry village of Cootamundry allotments seven and cight of section twenty-four Commencing on the south-castern side of Thompson-street "at the western corner of allotment six appropriated for a Roman Catholic presbytery and bounded thence on the north-west by that street south-westerly four chains on the south-west by the north- eastern boundary-line of allotment nine south-casterly at right angles to Thompson- street two chains fift ty links to a lane on the south-cast by that lane north-easterly parallel with Thompson-strect four chains and on the north- ant by the south-western boundary-line of allotment six aforesaid north-westerly at right angles to Thompson- street two chains fifty links to the point of commencement.