New South Wales: The Upper Hunter Pastoral and Agricultural Association Lease Act of 1875 39 Vic (NSW)

'14 39° VIC. 1875. Upper Hunter Pastoral and Agricultural Association Lease. ANNO TRICESIMO NCNO VICTORIA REGINA. Ure dom An Act to enable the Trustees of the Mus- Assocnon Lewes wellbrook Recreation Reserve to Lease ~~ a portion thereof. [2nd August, 1875.] Preamble. Ay HEREAS a parcel of Crown land situate on the Muswellbrook Creek at Muswellbrook containing about forty-six acres has been in pursuance of the " Crown Lands Alienation Act of 1861" duly dedicated to a public purpose namely for public recreation and the Municipal Council of Muswellbrook have beer. by proclamation duly appointed trustces of such land for that purpose And whereas there is an Association in the district of Muswellbrook aforesaid called the " Upper Hunter Pastoral and Agricultural Assoviation" formed for the purpose of (among other things) periodically holding public exhi- bitions and shows of stock and implements Ard it would be of great advantage to the district that the portion of the said land described in the Schedule to this Act should be placed at tie disposal of the said Association but that object cannot be effected without the sanction of the Legislature Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice anc. consent of the Legis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled and by the authority of she same as follows :— Power to leaso ce. 1. It shall be lawful for the Municipal Council of Muswellbrook by an indenture of lease to demise to any three persons hereinafter called trustees their executors administrators ar.d assigns the piece of land in the Schedule to this Act described being a portion of the said Crown land so as aforesaid dedicated for the term of ninety-nine years from the day of the date of such lease < the annual rent' of one shilling to be by such persons held in trust for the said Associ- ation called the " Upper Iuntcr Pastoral and Ag :icultural Association" and for any Association established in substitution for the same whether under the same or any other name to be used by the said Association or such substituted Association for the purposes of any shows or exhibitions held by them Such lease shall be executed by being sealed with the corporate seal of the Municipality by the direction and in the presence of a quorum of the said Municipal Council present at any meeting duly convened and be attested by the Clerk of the said Council for the time being. Control of lund and 2. The said demised land shall from the date of such lease be thereonand uses Legally vested in the trustees for the time being for the term aforesaid thereof. but shall be under the control of the committee for the time being of the said Association or any such substituted Association who shall have power from time to time to plant trees shrubs and flowers and erect on the said demised land any buildings pens yards or fences of any kind in their opinion requisite for the purposes of any show or exhibition of stock and implements or other things on the said land. 3. 1875. 39° VIC. 15 Australasia Coal Company. 3. The said Committee shall have power from time to time to Power to make rules make any regulations for the management and preservation of the * said demised land and all such erections pens yards fences trees shrubs and flowers thereon and also for regulating the holding of and admission to either upon or without payment any show or exhibition held by any such Association and may impose any penalty not exceeding ten pounds for the breach of any such regulation and every such penalty shall be recoverable before any Justice of the Peace in a summary way Provided that all such regulations shall be published in the Gazette and that before publication they shall have been approved of by the Governor in Council. 4, Whenever any of the trustees appointed under the provisions Power to appoint of this Act or of the Act next mentioned shall dic or resign or shall "°° go to reside out of the Colony a new trustee or new trustecs may be appointed in his or their stead as by the Act called the "Trust Property Act of 1862" section sixty-three is provided. 5. This Act may be cited as "The Upper Hunter Pastoral and Short title. Agricultural Association Lease Act of 1875." SCHEDULE. All that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement ten acres being a Schedule. portion of a Reserve situate in the town of Muswellbrook county Durhain parish Rowan Commencing at a point on the southern fence of the Great Northern Railway bearing south four degrees fifty-six minutes west distant five hundred and two links from the south-east corner of section nuinber fourteen on the Government Chart of the town of Muswellbrook and bounded thence on the east by a line bearing south ninetcen degrees forty-five minutes west six hundred links; thence on the south-east by a line bearing west fifteen degrees thirteen minutes south three hundred and forty-nine links thonee on the south by a line bearing west nineteen degrees forty-five minutes north one thousand links thence on the west by a linc bearing north ninctcen degrees forty- five minutes east eight hundred links to the southern fence of the Great Northern Rail- way and thence by the aforesaid railway fence being a line bearing cast nineteen degrees forty-five minutes south twelve hundred and eighty-six links to commencing point.