New South Wales: Sydney Bethel Union Act 1856 20 Vic (NSW)

496 20° VIC. 1856. Mariners' Church. ANNO VICESIMO VICTORIA REGINA. Manisens' Carre, At) Act to enable the Trustees of the Sydney Bethel Union to surrender the Land in Macquarie-street Sydney some time since granted as a site for a Mariners' Church and to accept a Grant of other Land in lieu thereof. [29th December, 1856. ] Preamble, HEREAS George Allen Thomas Barker Francis Mitchell Ambrose Foss and John Alexander Trustees of the Sydney Bethel Union are as such Trustees possessed of an allotment of land in Macquarie-street Sydney containing by admeasurement twenty-two and a half perches which was granted by the Crown on the thirty-first day of July in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two to the then Trustees of the said Bethel Union as a site for a new Mariners' Church And whereas it is considered expedient to surrender the said allotment to the Crown and to accept in lieu thereof a grant of a more eligible site for the said Mariners' Church situate between George-street and the Circular Quay in Sydney aforesaid but the said Trustees are not legally competent to make such surrender and to effect the proposed exchange without the authority of the Legislature 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 this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows— Trustees may sur- 1. It shail be lawful for the said George Allen Thomas Barker in Maccuavie-strect Francis Mitchell Ambrose Foss and John Alexander as the Trustees and accept inliew for the time being of the said Sydney Bethel Union to surrender and * yield up to Her. Majesty the Queen the said parcel of land in Mac- quarie-street so now possessed by the said Trustees and to accept in lieu thereof and for the like purpose a certain other parcel of land situated between George-street: and the Circular Quay in Sydney of which it is intended that a grant shall be issued to the said Trustees. An