New South Wales: Orange Town Hall Site Sale Act 1879 42 Vic (NSW)

OrancEe Town Hau. Sire Save Preamble. Schedule A. Power to Council to sell present site. Schedule A. How land to be conveyed. Schedule B. An Act to enable the Municipal Council of Orange to sell the present and provide another Site for a Town Hall. [20th March, 1879.] HEREAS by a deed of grant under the hand of Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson dated the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five the land more particularly described in Schedule A hereto was granted to the Municipal Council of Orange and their successors as a site for a Town Hall and for no other use or purpose whatsoever and upon the further trusts in the said deed of grant declared And whereas the said land is now lying vacant and unproductive by reason of the said Council having no funds available for the erection of a Town Hall upon the said land And whereas the said land is now of some considerable value and would be likely if sold to realise a sum of money sufficient to enable the said Council to acquire another site in an equally convenient though less valuable position and have a surplus in hand which would form a fund for building a Town Hall in accordance with the original intention and object of the said grant And whereas the said deed of grant contains no power of sale or exchange and it is desirable that authority should be given to the said Council to sell the said land and apply the proceeds as hereinafter mentioned Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council and "Legislative Assembly of New South W ales in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows:— 1. It shall be lawful 'tor the Municipal or Borough Council of Orange to sell and dispose of the land described in Schedule A hereto by public auction and either in one lot or several lots for such prices as can be reasonably obtained for the same with power to the said Council at any such auction sale to buy in the same and sell the same again without being answerable for any loss thereby occasioned. 2. Upon every such sale as aforesaid it shall be lawful for the said Council to convey and assure the said land or any part thereof to the purchaser by a deed in or as near as may be to the form set forth in Schedule B hereto to be executed under the common seal of the said Council and every such deed shall be a sufficient discharge to any purchaser and shall exonerate him from seeing to the application of the purchase moneys paid by him and from all liability in respect of the mis-application or non-application thereof. 3. 1879. 42° VIC. OW City of Goulburn Gas and Coke Company's Incorporation. 3. The said Council shall stand possessed of the moncys arising Application of pro- from any such sales as aforesaid upon trust after payment thercout ced of se. of all expenses of and incidental to the said sales and of and to the obtaining of this Act to apply the said moneys in the first instance in the purchase of such frechold lands within the said Borough of Orange as the said Council may deem suitable as a site fora 'Town Hall and in the next place in or towards the crection of suitable buildings or the extension repair or completion of any buildings already erected upon the lands so purchased as aforesaid for use as a Town Hall and for no other purpose whatsoever And the receipt in writing of any person to whom any moneys shall be paid by the said Council or their successors under the provisions of this Act shall be an absolute discharge to the said Council or their successors for such moncys. SCHEDULE A. Aut that piece or parcel of Jand containing by admeasurement one rood and eleven perches and one half of a perch (be the same more or Jess) situated in the county of Wellington parish of Orange town of Orange allotment fourteen of section forty Com- mencing at the north-eastern corner of the section and bounded thence on the north by Summer-street westerly one chain and forty links on the west by an eastern boundary- line of allotment thirteen southerly two chains and thirty links on the south by a line easterly parallel with Summer- street one chain and forty links to Lord's Place and on the cast by Lord's Place northerly two chains and thirty links to the point of commencement. SCHEDULE B. Tuts Indenture made the day of A.v. 18 between the Municipal Council of Orange in the Colony of New South Wales of the one part and of 'of the other part Witnesscth that the said Couneil in consideration of the sum of sterling paid to them which they hereby acknow- ledgo sell and convey to the said his (or her) heirs and assigns (or their successors) for ever AJ] that parcel of land described in the Schedule hereunder written. SCHEDULE, Witness " A.B. Ls. Council Clerk.