New South Wales: Saint Andrew's Parsonage Sale Act 1871 34 Vic (NSW)

Saint ANDREW'S Parsonage Sane. Preamble. Trustee authorized to cell. 34° VIC. 1871. Saint Andrew's Parsonage Sale. An Act to authorize the Sale of Saint Andrew's Parsonage in the City of Sydney. [10th May, 1871.] HEREAS by a deed of grant bearing date the fourth day of April one thousand eight hundred and seventy Her Majesty Queen Victoria did grant unto the Right Reverend Frederic Barker Doctor of Divinity 'the Lord Bishop of Sydney and his successors Bishops of Sydney for ever as sole Trustee nominated and appointed under and by virtue of an Act of the Governor and Legislative Council made and passed in the eighth year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth intituled "4 Act to regulate the temporal « affairs of Churches and Chapels of the United Church of England " and Ireland in New South Wales" subject to the trusts conditions | reservations and provisoes thereinafter contained all that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement thirty-four perches be the same more or less situated in the county of Cumberland parish of Saint Andrew city of Sydney part of allotment five of section nine com- mencing at the south-western corner of allotment four and bounded thence on the south by part of the northern boundary-line of allotment three bearing south eighty degrees west thirty-five links and thence by part of the northern boundary-line of allotment six hearing south eighty-two degrees fifteen minutes west ninety-two links on the west by a line dividing it from an allotment of one rood and eight perches part of allotment five bearing north fifteen minutes west one chain and sixty-five links to Liverpool-street on the north by the southern building-line of that street bearing easterly one chain and forty-two links and on the cast by the western boundary -line of allotment four aforesaid bearing south five degrees thirty minutes west one chain and fifty-two links to the point of commencement with all the rights and appurtenances whatsoever thereto belonging upon trust for the appro- priation thereof as a site of a dwelling-house garden and other appur- tenances for the Clergyman duly appointed to officiate in the Church of the United Church of England and Ireland erected at Sydney and known as Saint Andrew in conformity with the provisions of the said Act and of a certain other Act of the Governor and Legislative Council made and passed in the seventh year of the reign of his said late Majesty King William the Fourth intituled "dn Act lo promote the " building of Churches and Chapels and to provide for the maintenance " of Ministers of Religion in New South Wales" so fay as the same may apply to the trusts of the said grant and for no other purpose whatsoever And whereas the said Church of Saint Andrew is now the Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew And whereas the said parcel of land is inconveniently situated and the building erected thereon unsuitable for the residence of the chief officiating Minister of the said Cathedral Church And it is deemed expedient to sell the said land and to apply the proceeds arising from such sale in or towards the erection of a suitable residence for the chief officiating Minister of the said Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew within the said Cathedral Close Be it therefore enacted by the Quecn'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. The said Bishop of Sydney or his successors Bishops of Sydney may sell and dispose of the said parcel of land hereinbefore described by 'public auction or private contract cither in one lot or in several lots as the said Bishop of Sydney or his successors Bishops of Sydney shall think 1871. 34° VIC. Yass Roman Catholic Church Land. think most expedient for such price as can be reasonably had or obtained for the same and may convey the same or any part thereof when sold to the purchaser and thereupon the same shall vest absolutely in the said purchaser his heirs and assigns freed and discharged from the said trusts affecting the same and the receipt in writing of the said Bishop of Sydney or his successors Bishops of Sydney shall absolutely discharee the purchaser of the said land or a any part thereof from the purchas se money payable by him and shall exonerate him from secing to the application of the said purchase money and from all liability as to the misapplication or non-application thereof. 2. The said Bishop of Sydney and his successors Bishops of Trusteo to stand pos- Sydney shall stand possessed of "all moneys arising from such sale as sessed of proceeds for erection of aforesaid upon trust to apply the same in or towards the ereetion UPON. suitable residence. a portion of the land granted for the use of the said Cathedral or partly upon the said land and par tly upon the land described in the Schedule to the Act thirty-four Victoria number six of a suitable residence with the appur tenances thereunto belonging as a residence for the Clergyman duly appointed to officiate in the said Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew in the said City of Sydney and the receipt in writing of any person to whom any moneys shall be paid under the provisions of this Act shall be a valid and' complete discharge to the said Bishop of Sydney or his successors Bishops of Sydney for such moneys. 3. The person for the time-being duly licensed and appointed DY Oficiating Minister the Bishop of Sydney to be the Officiating Minister of the said Cathedral + and enjoy the said residence so to be erected as aforesaid with the appurtenances without any hindrance or interruption from or by any person whomsoever but subject to the provisions of the Act of the Legislature of New South Wales first hereinbefore recited. of Cathedral to have > . . rig! to occu Church of Saint Andrew shall be entitled to frecly use have possess residence.