New South Wales: Saint Stephen’s Church of England Parsonage Camperdown Sale Act 1886 50 Vic (NSW)

Sr. STEPHEN'Ss CHURCH OF En@uanp Parson- AGE CAMPERDOWN Lanp Saez. Preamble. Power to sell, 50° VIC. 1886. St. Stephen's Church of England Parsonage Camperdown Land Sale. An Act to enable the Right Reverend Alfred Barry Lord Bishop of Sydney Trustee of certain land in the County of Cumberland Parish of Petersham at Camperdown to sell the same and to provide for the application of the proceeds thereof. [18th August, 1886. | HEREAS by a grant from the Crown bearing date the fourteenth day of January one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight Her Majesty Queen Victoria did grant unto the Right Reverend William Grant Broughton the then Lord Bishop of Sydney and his successors Bishops of Sydney forever All that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement two roods be the same more or less situated in the county of Cumberland and parish of Petersham at Cam- perdown Commencing at the Cook's River Road at the corner of Senate and Throne Streets and bounded on the south by Senate-street being a line bearing south seventy-eight degrees west two chains fifty links on the west by a line at right angles to Senate-street two chains on the north by a line parallel with Senate-street two chains fifty links and on the east by Throne-street being a line at right angles to Senate-street two chains to the corner at the Cook's River Road as aforesaid (advertised as number one hundred and five in the Government notice dated the thirteenth day of December one thousand eight hundred and forty- seven) Upon trust for the appropriation thereof as the site of a dwell- ing-house garden and other appurtenances for the clergyman duly appointed to officiate in the Church of the United Church of England anid Ireland as by law established erected at Camperdown and now known as '' Saint Stephen's"" And whereas since the date of the said grant the said William Grant Broughton departed this life andthe Right Reverend Alfred Barry is now Lord Bishop of Sydney And whereas a dwelling-house or parsonage for the clergyman of the said Church of Saint Stephen's was many years ago erected on the said piece or parcel of land but the same is unsuitable for the purposes for which the said land was granted and it is expedient that the said land and parsonage should be sold and the proceeds applied in or towards the purchase or erection of other premises in a more suitable position within the said parish of Saint Stephen's Camperdown as a residence for the clergyman of the said church 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 Wales in Par- liament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows :— 1. It shall be lawful for the Right Reverend Alfred Barry or his successors Bishops of Sydney to sell and dispose of the said lands so granted as aforesaid together with the house or parsonage erected thereon and the appurtenances thereto belonging either by public auction or private contract and either in one lot or separate lots as he or they shall deem most expedient and for such price or prices as can be obtained for the same and upon such terms and conditions as to payment of the purchase money and other matters as the said Right Reverend Alfred Barry or his successors may deem expedient and to buy in the same premises or any part or parts thereof at any auction sale or to rescind or vary the terms of any contract for sale and to resell and when sold to convey and assure the premises or any part or parts thereof in fee-simple to the purchaser or purchasers thereof his her 1886. 50° VIC. Ennis Estate. her or their heirs or assigns freed and discharged from all the trusts alfecting the same ereated by the said grant or otherwise and the reecipt in writing of the Right Reverend Alfred Barry or his sue- cessors for any money arising from such sale or sales shall be an effectual and absolute discharge to the purchascr or purchasers of the said land or any part or parts thereof and shall exonerate him or them from secing to the application of any proceeds of such sale or sales and from all liability as to the mis-application or non-application thereof. 2. The said Right Reverend Alfred Barry and his successors Disposal of proceeds, shall stand possessed of all moneys arising from each and every such sale or sales as aforesaid Upon trust after payment thereout of the expenses of such sale or sales and of this .ct to apply the same in or towards the purchase of other premises situated in the said parish of Saint Stephen's suitable for a parsonage or residence for the clergyman for the time being duly appointed to officiate in the said Church of Saint Stephen's or in the purchase of another picce or picces of land in the said parish of Saint Stephen's asa site for the erection thereon of a dwelling-house or parsonage for the said clergyman and to apply the remainder of the said moneys (if any) which 'shall not. be required for the purposes last aforesaid in or towards the erection improvement or repair of a dwelling-house or parsonage for the said clergyman upon the said land or lands to be purchased as aforesaid and the receipts of any person or persons to whom any moneys shall be paid under the provisions of this Act shall be valid and complete discharges to the said KR. ight Reverend Alfred Barry and his successors for such moneys. Parsonasee Camperdown Sale Act 1886." This Act may be cited as "Saint Stephen's Church of England short title.