New South Wales: Saint Francis Roman Catholic Church Land Sale Act 1893 56 Vic (NSW)

Sart FRancts Roman CaTHOLIC CHURCH Lanp Sabe. Preamble. Trustees authorised to sell. Application of proceeds, 50° VIC. 1893. Saint Francis Roman Catholic Church Land Sale. An Act to enable His Eminence the Most Reverend Patrick Francis Cardinal Moran, Patrick Ryan Larkin, John Flanagan, and John Seage, or other the trustees for the time being of certain lands situated in Castlereagh, Campbell, Elizabeth, and Hay Streets, in the city of Sydney, to sell the said land, and to provide for the applica- tion of the proceeds thereof. [5th June, 1893.] IZEREAS by a certain grant from the Crown under the hand and seal 'of the Right Honorable Charles Robert, Baron Carrington, Governor-in- -Chief of the Colony of New South Wales, bearing date the tw enty-ninth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ecighty-nine, the lands described in the Schedule hereto were granted unto the Most Reverend Patrick Francis Moran, the Reverend Patrick Ryan, Patrick Ryan Larkin, John Flanagan, and John Seage, and their heirs, upon trust as a site for a Roman Catholic Church: And whereas the said Reverend Patrick Ryan has since departed this life: And whereas it is expedient that the said land should be sold to the Municipal Council of Sydney, and that the proceeds to arise from such sale should be apvlied in or towards the purchase of another site for 2 Roman Catholic Church, in the parish of Saint Laurence, in the city of Sydney and the erection of such Church: 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. After the passing of this Act it shall be lawful for the said Patrick Francis Moran, Patrick Ryan Larkin, John Flanagan, and John Seage (hereinalter styled trustees), their heirs and assigns, or other the trustee or trustees for the time being of the said grant of the twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand eight hundred. and eighty- nine, to sell and absolute sly dispose of the said land by private contract to the Municipal Council of Sydney at such price as may be agreed between the said trustees and the said 1 Municipal Council, and when sold to convey the same to the said Municipal Council freed and discharged from the said trusts affecting the same, and the receipt in writing of the said trustees, their heirs or assigns, or of the said trustees or trustee for the time being of the said grant, shall absolutely discharge the said Municipal Council from the purchase money from seeing to the application of the said purchase money, and from all liability as to the mis-application or non-application thereof. 2. The said trustees, their heirs or assigns, shall stand possessed of all moneys arising from such sale as aforesaid upon trust to apply the same in or towards purchasing and paying for another site for a Roman Catholic Church, in the parish of Saint Laurence, in the city of Sydney aforesaid, and building such Church; and the receipt of any person or persons to whom any moneys shall be paid under the pro- visions of this Act shall be valid and complete discharges to the said trustees, their heirs or assigns, for such moneys. THE 1893. 56° VIC. Waverley Roman Catholic Church Land Sale. TILE SCHEDULE REFERRED TO. All that piece or parecl of land in our said Colony, containing by admeasurement one rood thirty-four perches and three-fourths of a perch, be the same more or less, situated in the county of Cumberland and parish of Saint Laurence, city of Sydney Commencing on the building line of the southern side of Campbell- strect at its inter- section with the building line of the eastern side of Castlereagh-street ; and bounded thence on the north by the building line of Campbell-street 'aforesaid bearing south eighty-six degrees twenty minutes cast one chain eighty-one links and ninety -three one- hundredths of a link to the building line of Elizabeth-street; on the east by the building line of Klizabeth-strect aforesaid bearing south fifty-five minutes east two chains seventy- one links and one-fiftieth of a link to the building line of Hay-strect ; on the south by the building line of Hay-street aforesaid bearing north cighty-six degrees seventeen minutes west one chain sixty-four links and three~ "fourths of a link to the building line of Castloreagh-street aforesaid ; and on the west by the building line of Castlere: ugh- street atores: 'uid bearing north four degrees thirty-one minutes west two chains sev onty- two links and eighty- -three onc-hundredths of a link, to the point of commencement. 39°