New South Wales: Yass Roman Catholic Church Trustees Enabling Act (NSW)

Yass Roman CatHotic CHorcH TRUSTEES ENABLING. Preamble. Act, 1900. Yass Roman Catholic Church Trustees Enabling. An Act to enable the trustees of a certain allot- ment or parcel of land in the town of Yass, granted to the Right Reverend William Lanigan and others as trustees of the Roman Catholic Church at Yass, to sell the said land and to provide for the application of the proceeds thereof. [18th September, 1900.] HEREAS by a deed of grant bearing date the second day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, under the hand of His Excellency Sir Augustus William Frederick Spencer Loftus, the Governor of the territory of New South Wales, and under the seal thereof, Her Majesty Queen Victoria did, for the consideration in the said deed mentioned, grant unto the Right Reverend William Lanigan, the Reverend Patrick Dunne, and Morgan O'Connor, their heirs and assigns, an allotment or parcel of land in the town of Yass, which land is more fully described in the Schedule hereto, to hold unto the said Right Reverend William Lanigan, the Reverend Patrick Dunne, and Morgan O'Connor, as trustees of the Roman Catholic Church at Yass, their heirs and assigns for ever: And whereas the said Morgan O'Connor died on the twelfth day of August, one thousand eight hun- dred and ninety-five: And whereas by an indenture bearing date the eighteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, made between the Right Reverend William Lanigan of the first part, the Very Reverend Patrick Dunne of the second part, and the Very Reverend Patrick O'Keefe, and Phillip Julian of the third part, the said Very Reverend Patrick Dunne resigned from the trusts of, and in connection with, the said allotment or parcel of land, and by the same indenture the said Right Reverend William Lanigan appointed the Very Reverend Patrick O'Keefe and Phillip Julian trustees of the same in the place and stead of the said Very Reverend Patrick Dunne and Morgan O'Connor, and the said allotment or parcel of land has accordingly become and is now vested in the said Right Reverend William Lanigan, the Very Reverend Patrick O'Keefe, and Phillip Julian as such trustees as aforesaid: And whereas the said allotment or parcel of land is not required for a site for the Roman Catholic Church, nor for the enlarge- ment of the present site of the Roman Catholic Church in the town of Yass: And whereas the said Right Reverend William Lanigan, the Very Reverend Patrick O'Keefe, and Phillip Julian, as such trustees as afore- said, are desirous of selling the said allotment or parcel of land, and of applying the proceeds of such sale in or towards the enlargement, maintenance, Act, 1900. Yass Roman Catholic Church Trustees Enabling. maintenance, and support of a Roman Catholic school or schools and teachers' residence or residences in the town of Yass: 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 follows :— 1. From and after the passing of this Act it shall be lawful for trustees authorised the said Right Reverend William Lanigan, the Very Reverend Patrick * sll. O'Keefe, and Phillip Julian, as such trustees as aforesaid, their heirs or assigns or other the trustees or trustee for the time being of the land described in the Schedule hereto, to sell and dispose of the said land by public auction or private contract, and either in one lot or in several lots as they shall deem expedient, for such price or prices as ean reasonably be obtained for the same, and to convey and assure the same or any part or parts thereof when sold to the purchaser or pur- chasers thereof in fee-simple freed and discharged from all trusts affecting the same. And the receipt in writing of the said trustees, their heirs or assigns or other the trustees or trustee for the time being of the said land, for the purchase moneys arising from such sale or sales shall be a sufficient discharge to the purchaser or purchasers of the said land, and shall exonerate him or them from seeing to the application of the said moneys and from all liability in respect of the misapplication or non-application thereof. 2. The said trustees, their heirs or assigns or other the trustees Application of or trustees for the time being of the said land, or of the proceeds of any Proceeds. séle or sales of the said lands or of any part thereof, shall stand possessed of the moneys arising from such sale or sales as aforesaid upon trust to apply the proceeds thereof in or towards the enlargement, maintenance, and support of a Roman Catholic school or schools and teachers' residence or residences in the town of Yass. And the receipts of any person or persons to whom any moneys shall be paid by the suid trustees, their heirs or assigns or other the trustees or trustee for the time being of the said land, or of the proceeds of any sale thereof uader the provisions of this Act, shall be valid and complete discharges to the said trustees, their heirs and assigns or other the said trustees or trustee for the time being for such moneys. 8. This Act may be cited as the '' Yass Roman Catholic Church Short title. Trustees Enabling Act.'' THE Act, 1900. Richmond Vale Coal-mine Railway. THE SCHEDULE. All that piece or parcel of land in the Colony of New South Wales, containing by admeasurement thirty-two perches, be the same more or less, situated in the county of Murray and town of Yass: Commencing at the south-east corner of allotment number eleven; and bounded thence by the building line of Cooma-street, being a line bearing east forty-five degrees south, southerly sixty-six feet; on the south-west by a line at right angles to Cooma-street one hundred and thirty-two feet; on the north-west by a line parallel to Cooma-street northerly sixty-six feet; and on the north-east by a line at right angles to the building line of Cooma-street one hundred and thirty-two feet, to the point of commencement.