New South Wales: Randwick Roman Catholic Church Land Sale Act 1886 50 Vic (NSW)

Raypwick Romay Catrnonic Cutren Lanp Sane. Preamble. Trustees authcrized to sell. Application of proceeds, 30° VIC. 1886. Randwick Ronan Catholic Church Land Sale. An Act to enable the Most Reverend Patrick Francis Moran the Reverend James Peter Hanrahan and Aston James Watkins as Trustees of certain lands situated at Randwick to sell the said land and to provide for the appropriation of the pro- ceeds thereof. [1st July, 1886. ] AY TILEREAS by two grants from the Crown under the hand and seal of Sir Augustus William Frederick Spencer Loftus Governor-in-Chief of the Colony of New South Wales both bearing datc the first day of March one thousand eight hundred and cighty- one the lands deseribed in the Schedule hereto were granted unto the Most Reverend Roger Bede Vaughan the said James Peter Hanrahan and the Reverend Martin Augustine Holohan upon trust as sites for a Roman Catholic Church and clergyman's residence And whereas by an order of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in Equity the said lands were vested in the said Patrick Francis Moran James Peter Hanrahan and Aston James Watkins upon the trusts declared in and by the said deeds of grant or such of the same as are now subsisting and capable of taking effect And whereas it is expedient that the said lands should be sold and that the proceeds to arise from such sale should be applied in or towards the erection of a Roman Catholic Church and clergyman's residence upon another and more cligible site at Randwick aforesaid and in payment for such site Be it therefore enacted by the Gueen'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. After the passing of this Act it shall be lawful for the said Patrick Francis Moran James Peter Hanrahan and Aston James Watkins bercinafter styled Trustees their heirs and assigns or other the Trustees for the time heing of the said grants of the first day of March one thousand cight hundred and cighty-one to scl] and abso- utely dispose of the said land by public auction or private contract and cither in one lot or several lots as they shall deem most expedient for such price or prices as can be had or obtained for the same and when sold to convey the same or any part or parts thereof to the purchaser or purchasers in fee-simple 'tyeed and dischar eed from the said trusts affecting the same and the receipt in writing of the said Trustees their heirs or assigns or of the 'Trustees or Trustee for the time being of the said grants shall absolutely discharge the purchaser or purchasers of the said land or any part or parts thercof from the purchase money payable by him or them from seeing to the application of the said purchase money and from all liability as to the mis-appli- cation or non-application thereof. 2. The said 'Prustces their heirs or assigns shall stand possessed of all moneys arising from any and every such sale or sales as afore- seid upon trust to" apply the proceeds of such sale in or towards purchasing and paying for an cligible site for a Roman Catholic Church and clergyman's residence at Randwick aforesaid and building such church and residence and the receipt of any person or persons to whom any moneys shall be paid under the provisions of this Act shall be valid and complete discharge to the said Trustees their heirs or assigns for such moneys. SCHEDULE. 1886. 50° VIC. Moorebank Estate. SCITEDULE. All that piece or parecl of land in our said Colony containing by admeasurement three roods thirty-seven perches be the same more or less situated in the county of Cum- berland and parish of Alexandria at Randwick Commencing at the north- eastern corner of A. McGee's six acres three roods and bounded thence on the south by part of the northern houndary of that land bearing west tour chains forty-three links on the west by the eastern, boundary of a measured portion of one rood thirty-six perches bearing north two chains nine links and half-a-link on the north-west by lines bearing north seventy- one degrees east two chains ten links and thence north fifty- -six degrees east forty links on the north-cast by a road one chain wide bearing south forty -two degrees twenty-seven minutes cast three chains twenty links and on 'the cast by a line bearing south sixty- three links to the point of commencement. Also that piece or parcel of land in our said Colony containing by admeasure- ment two roods be the same more or less situated in the county of Cumberland and parish of Alexandria at Randwick Commencing at a point bearing north forty-seven degrees thirty-three minutes cast and distant one chain from the north-eastern corner of a measured portion of three roods thirty-seven perches appropriated for a Roman Catholic Church and bounded thenee on the south-west by a road one chain wide bearing north forty-two degrees twenty-seven minutes west three chains four links on the nor! rth- west by lines Dearing north fitty-six degrees east one chain fifty-five links and thence north sixty-nine degrees cast one chain fifty links on the east by a line bearing south three chains five links and on the south-east by a line bearing south forty-scven degrees thirty- three minutes west ninety links to the point of commencement.