New South Wales: Goulburn Hospital Site Sale Act of 1884 48 Vic (NSW)

An Act to authorize the sale of the site of the , Gocmrax Hosprran Site Goulburn Hospital and to provide for the 8s expenditure of the money received there- from in the erection of suitable buildings for a like purpose on a new site. [81st October, 1884. | 7ILEREAS the Honorable James Chisholm a member of the Preamble. Legislative Council John Thomas Gannon a member of the Legislative Assembly William Pitt Faithful J.P. Thomas Marsden J.P. and Charles Gillespie have been duly appointed and now are the Trustees of the land at Goulburn dedicated as a site for an hospital which said land is more particularly deseribed in the Schedule hereto And whereas the buildings erected on the said land are inadequate and unfit for the requirements of the distriet and the site has become unsuitable for the purposes of a public hospital And whereas it is expedicnt that provision should be made upon the acquisition of a better site for the erection thereon of suitable buildings for such hospital and that the Trustecs for the time being of the said land should be empowered to scll and dispose of the same in order to raise a sum of moncy to be expended in defraying part of the cost of erecting on such better site suitable buildings for the said hospital Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Execllent 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 Trustees authorized said Goulburn Hospital to sell and dispose of the said parcel of land '? "ll 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 Power to give credit. Application of proceeds of sale. Site to be approved by Governor. Liability of Trustees, Short title. 48° VIC. 1884. Goulburn Hospital Site Sale. 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 trust affecting the said land And the receipt in writing of the said Trustees for the purchase money arising from such sale or sales shall be a sufficient discharge to any and every pur- chaser of the said land or portions thereof and exonerate such pur chaser from seeing to the application of the said moneys and from all liability in respect of the misapplication or non-application thereof. 2. It shall be lawful for the Trustees and their successors to allow any purchaser or purchasers credit for the payment of the whole or any part or parts of his her or their purchase money upon such terms as to interest or otherwise and generally as the Trustees may decm reasonable and expedient. 3. 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 thercof in or towards the erection of a public hospital in the town of or in the vicinity of the town of Goulburn upon a suit- able site for that purpose. And the said Trustees and their successors shall also stand possessed of any moneys voted or to be voted by Par- liament in aid of the building fund of the said hospital and also all other moneys coming to their hands as such 'Trustees 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 moncys shall he paid by the said Trustees or their successors under the provisions of this Act shall be a valid and complete discharge to the said Trustees and their successors for such moneys. 4. No expenditure of any of the said moncys 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 be approved of hy the Colonial Architect. 5. No Trustee or Trustees under this Act shall be held respon- sible for any involuntary losses or misapplication of any moncys coming to the hands of the said Trustees under the provisions of this Act unless snch loss or misapplication shall have happened through the wilful neglect or default of the Trustees under this Act for the time being. G6. 'This Act may be cited as the " Goulburn ILospital Site Sale Act of 1884." SCHEDULE. All that piece or parcel of land situate in the county of Argyle parish of Goulburn city of Goulburn containing two acres two roods or thereabouts part of section four Commencing on the north-western side of Sloanc-street at a point where it meets the north-eastern side of Clifford-strect and bounded thence on the south-cast by Sloane-street north-easterly about five chains on the north-east by the south-western boundary of allotment one north-westerly about five chains on the north-west by the south-eastern boundaries of allotments nine ten eleven twelve and thirteen in all south- westerly about five chains to Clifford-strcet aforesaid and on the south-west by that street south. easterly about five chains to the point of commencement.