New South Wales: Vaucluse Roman Catholic Church Lands Leasing Act (NSW)

Vaucluse Roman Catholic Church Lands Leasing. VAUCLUSE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH LANDS LEASING ACT. An Act to authorise the Trustees of certain lands at Vaucluse granted by the Crown for religious and educational purposes to lease and other- wise deal with part of such lands and to provide for the application of the rent snd profits of the land so leased and to declare the trusts upon which a portion of the said lands is held; and for purposes consequent thereon or incidental thereto. [Assented to, 9th November, 1926.] AY THEREAS by Crown grant, dated the cleventh day of August, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, registered volume two thousand five hundred and one, folio one hundred and seventy-four, certain land at Vaucluse, described in the First, Schedule to this Act, and having an area of three roods thirty-three perches or thereabouts, was granted to the Most Reverend Michael Kelly, Doctor of Divinity, Arch- bishop of Sydney; the Right Reverend Monsignor Patrick Lewis Coonan, Vicar-Gencral of Forest Lodge; the Reverend Michael Fitzpatrick, of Rose Bay ; Frederick Dunne, a caretaker, and George Avelor, a stenalman, both of Watson's Bay, which persons are hereinafter in this Actreferred to as trustees, upon trust for the erection thereon cof a Loman Catholic church and for no other purpose whatsoever: And whereas by Crown grant, dated the cleventh day of August, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, registered volume two thousand five hundred and one, folio cne hundred 'George V. Preamble. Vaucluse Roman Catholic Church Lands Leasing. George V, hundred and seventy-five, certain land at Vaucluse, Short title, described in the Secord Schedule to this Act, and having an area of two roods nineteen perches, was granted to the said Most Reverend Michael Kelly, the said Right Reverend Monsignor Patrick Lewis Coonan, the said Reverend Michael Fitzpatrick, the said Frederick Dunne, and the said George Avelor, upon trust for the appropriation thereof as the site of a dwelling-house, garden, and other appurtenances, for the clergymen duly appointed to officiate in the Roman Catholic church erected at Watson's Bay, and for no other purpose whatsoever: And whereas by Crown grant, dated the eleventh day of August, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, registered volume two thousand five hundred and one, folio one hundred and seventy-six, certain land at Vaucluse, deseribed in the Third Schedule to this Act, and having an area of two roods, was granted to the said Most Reverend Michael Kelly, the said Right Reverend Monsignor Patrick Lewis Coonan, the said Reverend Michael Fitzpatrick, the said Frederick Dunne, and the said George Avelor, upon trust for a school in connection with the Roman Catholic Church, Watson's Bay, and for no other purpose whatsoever: And whereas there has been erected upon part of the land described in the said First Schedule a Roman Catholic church and convent, and there have been erected upon part of the land described in the said Second Schedule certain buildings for educa- tional purposes: And whereas the land described in the Third Schedule is vacant land: And whercas it is expedient that authority be given to lease all or any portion of the lands described in the Fourth Schedule, such lands comprising part of the lands in the said First and Second Schedules, and all the said Jand in the said Third Schedule, and that provisions be made for the application of the rentals received from such Icasing : Be it therefore enacted by the King'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. This Act may be cited as the " Vaucluse Roman Catholic Church Lands Leasing Act." 2. Vaucluse Roman Catholie Church Lands Leasing. 2. The said trustees or the trustee or trustees for the time being of the said lands described in the Fourth Schedule to this Act may :— (a) Lease all or any part of the said land for such term at such rent and for such purposes and subject to such conditions and other payments in addition to rent as the said trustee or trustees may think fit, and apply any rent or other payments so received to the payment of rates, taxes, and other outgoings in relation to the land described in the Hirst, Second, Third, and Fourth Schedules hereto, or to the upkeep, maintenance, enlargement, or extension of any buildings erected or hereinafter erected on the said lands deseribed in the said First and Second Schedules respectively, or to any one or more of the purposes hereinbefore mentioned or declared in the Crown grants mentioned im the preamble hereto; ({b) accept surrenders of leases granted under this Act upon such terms and subject to such conditions as the said trustees or trustee may think fit; (c) subdivide the said land described in the said Fourth Schedule, form and dedicate streets and public places thereon, and otherwise comply with any requirements made by or under the Local Government Act, 1919, or any Act amending the same ; (d) grant easements and rights-of-way over and in connection with the said land described in the said Third Schedule. 3. (a) Itis herchy declared that the trustee or trustees for the time being of the land deseribed in the said First Schedule do hold and have held the same upon trust for the erection thereon of a Roman Catholic convent as well as for the ercetion of a Roman Catholic church. (b) It is hereby further declared that the trustee or_trustees for the time being of the land described in the George V. 'Trustees or trustee may lease all or any part of land described in Fourth Svhedule, accept surrenders of leases, subdivide, grant easements and rights of way. Erection of Roman Catholic convent and Roman Catholic church. » f) Vaucluse Roman Catholic Church Lands Leasing. George V. the said Second Schedule do hold and have held the same upon trust for the erection thercon of a Roman Catholic school as well as for the erection of a Roman Catholic clergymen's dwelling-house. SCHEDULES. THE FIRST SCHEDULE. Aut that piece or parcel of land in our said State containing by admeasurement 3 rvods 33 perches, be the same more or less, situated in the county of Cumberland, parish of Alexandria, at Vaucluse, portion 578: Commencing on the north-eastern building line of South Head road at the southern corner of portion 576 of 2 roods 19 perches appropriated for a site for a Roman Catholic Presbytery, and bounded thence on the south-west by that building line bearing south 37 degrees 44 minutes cast 3 chains 18,4, links to a lane 30,5 links wide ; on the south-east and east by that: lane dividing it from 1 acre 2 roods 13 perches appropriated for a site for a public school bearing north 50 degrees 11 minutes east 3 chains 6 links, and thence north 5 degrees 37 minutes east 1 chain 36,%, links, on the north by the southern boundary of portion 577 of 2 roods appropriated for a site for a Roman Catholic school bearing north 81 degrees 44 minutes west 2 chains 45 links, and on the north-west by the south castern boundary of portion 576 aforesaid bearing south 60 degrees 16 minutes west 2 chains 312 links to the point of commencement. THE SECOND SCHEDULE, All that piece or parcel of land in our said State containing by admeasurement 2 roods 19 perches, be the same more or | situated in the county of Cumberland and parish of Alexandria, at Vaucluse, 'portion 576: Commencing at a point where the south-eastern building line of Gap-street mects the north-eastern line of South Head road, and bounded thence on the north-west and north py that building line of that street bearing north 71 degrees 3 minutes east 2 chains 234 links, and thence north 83 degrees 34 minutes east 1 chain inks, on the north-east by the south-western boundary of portion 577 of 2 roods appropriated for a site fora Roman Catholic school bearing south 15 degrees 29 minutes east. 1 chain 82 links, on the south-east by the north-western boundary of portion 578 of 3 roods 33 perches appropriated for a site for a Roman Catholic Church bearing south €0 degrees 16 minutes west 2 chains 31% links to the north-eastern building line of South Head road aforesaid, and on the south-west by that building line of that road bearing north o7 degrees 44 minutes west 2 chains 62,'5 links to the point of commencement. 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THE THIRD SCHEDULE, All that piece or parcel of land in our said State containing by George V. admeasurement, 2 roods, be the same more or less, situated in the county of Cumberland and parish of Alexandria, at Vaucluse, portion 577: Commencing on the southern building line of Gap-street at the north-eastern corner of portion 576 of 2 roods 19 perches appropriated for a site for a Roman Catholic Presbytery, and bounded thence on the north by that building line bearing 83 degrees 34 minutes east 5375 links, and thence by a "line bearing south 'SL degrees 44 minutes east 2 chains 58y5 links to a corner of portion 96 of 2 rools 6 perches, which cor ner 4s situated on the southern boundary of portion 95 of { acre 38 perches, on the cast by a western boundary of portion 96 forming the western side of a formed road, and thence by the western side of a lane 30,%, links wide, dividing it from 1 acre 2 rouds 13 perches appropriated for a site for a public schcol, in all bearing 5 degrees 37 minutes west 1 chain 80! links, on the south by the northern boundary of portion 578 of 3 roods 33 perches appropriated for a site for a Roman Catholic church bearing north 81 degrees 44 minutes west 2 chains £5 links, and on the south west by" the north-eastern boundary of portion 576 aforesaid, bearing north 50 degrees 29 minutes west J] chain 82 links to the point of commencement, THE FOURTH SCHEDULE. All that piece or parcel of land situated at Watson's Bay, Munici- pality of Vaucluse, and being portion 577, and part of portions 576 and 578, parish of 'Alexandria, county of Cumberland, and containing by admeasurement 3 roods 4h perches : Commencing on the southern building line of Gap street (now Robertson-place) ata point bearing 71 degrees 33 minutes and distant 223-8 links from the inter- section of the aforesaid building line with the north-eastern building line of South Head road, and bounded on the north by the aforesaid southern building line of Gap street and by the southern side of a formed roadway (known as Dunbar-street) bearing 83 degrees 34 minutes 154°7 links and 98 degrees 16 minutes 259-2. links respectively ; thence on the east by the western side of aforesaid formed roadway bearing 185 degrees 37 minutes 194°6 links ; thence on the south by a line bearing 269 degrees 6 minutes 298-5 links ; thence on the south-west by a line bearing 337 degrees 237-1 links to the point of commencement, be the said dimensions a little more or less.