New South Wales: Saint John’s Parsonage Act of 1866 30 Vic (NSW)

New South Wales, ANNO TRICESIMO VICTORIA REGINA. AR AR EK RE A AE RA A RR A ER ER A AO Ra An Act to authorize the erection of a Parsonage %azzom's on a portion of the Land granted for Saint —— John's Church Darlinghurst in the City of Sydney. [12th September, 1866.] HEREAS by a deed of grant bearing date the twenty-eighth Preamble. day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven under the Great Seal of the Colony Her Majesty Queen Victoria did grant unt6 the Right Reverend Frederic Barker Doctor in Divinity the Lord Bishop of Sydney and his suc- cessors Bishops of Sydney for ever as sole Trustee nominated and appointed under and by virtue of an Act of the Governor and Legis- lative Council of New South Walcs made and passed in the eighth year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth intituled "An 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 in the said Colony containing by admeasurement three roods thirty-seven perches and three quarters of a perch be the same more or less situated in the county of Cumberland and parish of Alexandria city of Sydney at Darlinghurst commencing on the west side of Victoria-street at the south-east corner of the Church of England school allotment and bounded on the east by Victoria-street bearing south three chains and eighty links on the south by a linc bearing west two chains fifty-nine and one half links to Brougham-street on the west by Brougham-street bearing north three chains and eighty links and on the north by the south boundary of the school allotment aforesaid being a line bearing a east 2 30° VIC. 1866. Saint John's Parsonage. east two chains fifty-nine and one half links to the point of commence- ment with all the rights and appurtenances whatsoever thereto belonging to hold unto the said Right Reverend Frederic Barker the Lord Bishop of Sydney and his successors Bishops of Sydney for ever yielding and paying therefor yearly unto Her Majesty Her Heirs and Successors the quit-rent or sum of one farthing for ever if demanded upon trust for the erection thereon of a Church of the United Church of England and Ireland as by law established in conformity with the provisions of the said Act and of a certain other Act of the Governor and Legislative Council of the said Colony made and passed in the seventh year of the reign of His said late Majesty King William the Fourth intituled "An Act to * promote the building of Churches and Chapels and to provide for the "maintenance of Ministers of Religion in New South Wales" so far as the same may apply to the trusts of the said grant and for no other purpose whatsoever And whereas a commodious church has been erected upon a portion of the said land which is called and known as "St. John's Church" And whereas there is sufficient space upon the unoccupied portion of the said land which is described in the Schedule hercto for the convenient erection of a parsonage or dwelling-house for the use of the Minister for the time being duly licensed to officiate in the said church under and in accordance with and subject to the provisions of the said Act eighth William the Fourth number five and it is expedient that a parsonage should be erected upon such last-mentioned portion 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 'ollows :— Trustees authorized 1. It shall be lawful for the Trustee for the time being of the fo erotParfonageo" said parcel of land and of the church thereon erected to erect or Schedule hereto. permit to be erected upon that portion of the said land described in the Schedule hereto a parsonage or dwelling-house for the use of the Minister for the time being duly licensed to officiate in the said church under and subject to and in accordance with the provisions of the Act eighth William the Fourth number five anything in the said grant to the contrary notwithstanding And such Minister shall have the same rights and privileges with respect to the said parsonage and the appurtenances thereof as if the said parcel of land described in the said Schedule had been granted upon trust for the erection of a parsonage under and subject to the provisions of the said last- mentioned Act. Short title. 2. This Act shall be styled and may be cited as " Saint John's Parsonage Act of 1866." SCHEDULE HEREINBEFORE REFERRED TO. All that piece or parcel of land situate in the county of Cumberland and parish of Alexandria city of Sydney at Darlinghurst in the Colony of New South Wales com- mencing at the south-west corner of the land described in the grant in this Act above recited and bounded on the south by a line bearing east one hundred and seventy feet being the southern boundary of the said grant on the east by Victoria-street being a line bearing north one hundred and seven feet on the north by other portion of the said grant whereon Saint John's Church is erected being a line bearing west one hundred and seventy feet and on the west by Brougham-street being a line bearing south one hundred and seven feet to the point of commencement. An