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Osborne's Leasing Act 1881 45 Vic (NSW)
An Act to enable the Trustees of the will Of osx: tess.
An Act to enable the Trustees of the will Of osx: tess.
Henry Osborne deceased to grant building =
and mining leases for ninety-nine years.
[Ath October, 1881.]
ITEREAS Henry Osborne late of Marshall Mount in the District Preamble.
of Illawarra Esquire being at the time of his death scised
and possessed of (amongst other lands) the lands and hereditaments
described in the schedule hereto duly made and executed his last will
and testament in writing bearing date the thirtieth day of December
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight whereby after certain
bequests and deviscs not matcrial to be here set forth devised unto
his sons Henry Till Osborne Patrick Hill Osborne Alick Osborne
Benjamin Marshall Osborne and John King Osborne the trustecs of
his will all his lands situated in the county of Northumberland in
the said Colony containing about two thousand eight hundred acres
Also all the moiety or share purchased by him from Mr. Hale in
land on the west side of the Bulli road Also the whole of the land
containing forty-eight acres situate in the district of Bulli lately
purchased by him from Hicks Also the fifty-one acres of land
situate in the said district lately purchased by him from Orgam Also
the five hundred and fifty-seven acres of land situate in the said
district lately purchased by him from Caunt Also the land lately
bought by him of Mr. Henning Also all those one hundred and
sixty-seven acres two roods and fifteen perches lately purchased by
him from James Collins but not then conveyed to him And also all
his property on the Bulli Mountain comprising six hundred and
fourteen acres purchased by him in several allotments from the Crown
all of which parcels of Iand are described in the Schedule to this
Bill together with the railways plant machinery and fixtures or parts
and shares of railways plant machinery and fixtures thercto belonging
And the henefit of all leases of any portions of the said land and the
covenants therein contained and the right of pre-emption of the
residue of any lands or share or moiety whereof was thereby devised
to
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his said Trustees and particularly with respect to land in which he
was jointly interested with Mr. Hale To hold unto and to the use
of his said sons Henry Hill Osborne Patrick Hill Osborne Alick
Osborne Benjamin Marshall Osborne and John King Osborne their
heirs and assigns upon trust that his said sons or the survivors or
survivor of them or the heirs of such survivor their or his assigns
or other the Trustees or Trustee for the time being of his will should
during the lives of all his sons and daughters except his sons
James and Francis to whom he had given his Mount Keira property
and the lives and life of the survivors and survivor of them demise
and lease or join in demising and leasing the said several lands or
parts or shares of land thereinbefore devised to his said Trustees or
any of the said lands or such part or parts thereof as they might deem
advisable for any term or terms of years not exceeding twenty-one
years in possession at the best rent that could be obtained and without
taking any premium therefor as well for the purposes of mining for
coal or other minerals as for farming and other purposes and subject
to such conditions and reservations as they or he should think fit
And he directed that during the lives of all his sons and daughters
(except his said sons James 'and Francis) and the lives and life of the
survivors and survivor of them his said Trustees or Trustec should pay
the annual rents proceeds dues and profits to arise from the said lands
or parts or shares of lands to and amongst all and every his sons and
daughters except his said sons James and Francis who should be alive
and the executors or administrators of such of them except his said
sons James and Francis as should happen to die the representatives
of any deceased son or daughter to receive the part or share which
such son or daughter if living would be entitled And from and after
the decease of all his said sons and daughters except his said sons
James and Francis he declared that his said Trustees or Trustec
should stand scised of the said several parcels of land and parts
and shares of land upon trust to divide the same into as many
shares as there should be then families being issue of all his said
sons and daughters except of his said sons James and Francis (the
whole of the issue of every such son or daughter whether children
grandchildren or more remote issue being deemed and considered
to be one family) and as to each of such shares in trust for such
members or member of one of such families and in such parts
and proportions as the son or daughter from whom such family
should descend should by writing under his or her hand and if a
daughter whether she be covert or sole direct or appoint And
in default of any such direction or appointment or so far as any
partial direction or appointment should not extend in trust for the
child or children of the son or daughter making such default or
partial appointment living at his or her decease and the issue then
living of his or her child or children then deceased as tenants in
common in fee simple but so that such issue should take only the
share or shares which the deceased parent or parents would if living
have taken And whereas the said Henry Osborne duly made and
published a codicil to his said will dated the sixteenth day of
February one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine which did not
in any way affect the before-mentioned devise And whereas the said
Henry Osborne died on the twenty-ninth day of March one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-nine without having altered or revoked his
said will so far as the same related to the said devise to the said
Tlenry Hill Osborne Patrick Hill Osborne Alick Osborne Ben Marshall
Osborne and John King Osborne leaving him surviving the following
children Henry Hill Osborne Patrick Hill Osborne Alick Osborne
Ben Marshall Osborne John King Osborne George Osborne Hamilton
Osborne
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Osborne Janc MacCabe wife of Francis Peter MacCabe Charlotte
Reddall wife of Thomas Alexander Reddall and Ann Osborne the
first bencficiaries entitled for life to the rents and profits of the said lanc
and hereditaments And whereas John King Osborne died on or abou
the fifteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine
intestate without having been married And whereas the said will was
on the seventh day of June one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine
duly proved in the Supreme Court of New South Wales by the sai
Henry Hill Osborne Patrick Hill Osborne Alick Osborne and Ben
Marshall Osborne Sarah Osborne the Executrix appointed by the
said will having renounced probate thereof And whereas the saic
Charlotte Reddall died on the thirticth
cight hundred and seventy-five having
whereby she appointed that the ren
said ands and hereditaments should be eq
children and she appointed the said A
s and
ay of April one thousan
previously made her wil
profits derived from the
ually divided amongst her
ick Osborne and George
Osborne Trustees and Executors of her will which will was duly
proved in the Supreme Court of New Sout
1. Wales on the fourth day
of November one thousand eight hundred and seventy-cight And
whercas the said land and hereditaments are at present of little value
by reason of the limited scope afforded by the power of leasing con-
tained in the said will of Ilenry Osborne deceased And whereas the
said land and hereditaments are peculiarly adapted for and would
become of considerably greater value than they are at present if
building and mining leases could be granted for a longer term than
twenty-one years and it would be for the benefit of all parties interested
in the said lands and hereditaments that there should be a power of
granting such longer building and mining leases accordingly 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 Walcs in Parliament assembled and by the
authority of the same as follows :—
1. It shall be lawful for the said Henry Till Osborne Patrick General power to
Hill Osborne Alick Osborne and Ben Marshall Osborne or other the
Trustces of the said will and codicil for the time being to grant leases
of all or any of the Jands and hereditaments deseribed in the Schedule
hereto or any of them or any part thereof and also all or any
part of the lands or real estate of the said Henry Osborne deceased
now vested or to become vested in the said Henry Hill Osborne
Patrick Hill Osborne Alick Osborne and Ben Marshall Osborne or
other the Trustees for the time being of the said will and codicil for
building purposes or other purposes of improvement for terms not
exceeding ninety-nine years to take effect in possession and not in
reversion or by way of future interest so as there be reserved in every
such lease the best rent that; can be reasonably obtained for the said
lands and hereditaments or any of them or any part thereof withou
taking any fine premium or foregift for the granting thereof and
so as there be contained in every such lease proper and reasonable
covenants and agreements by every such lessee for the due paymen
of the rent reserved thereby and a power of re-entry for non-paymen
of such rent and so as the respective lessces duly execute a duplicate
or counterpart of such lease.
2. Subject to the reservations and conditions if any contained
in the grants referred to in this Act and without prejudice to any then
existing rights it shall be lawful for the said Henry Hill Osborne Patrick
Hill Osborne Alick Osborne and Ben Marshall Osborne or other the
Trustees of the said will and codicil for the time being to grant leases
by deed for any term of years not exceeding ninety-nine years to take
effect in possession and not in reversion or by way of future interest of
all
grant leases.
Power to grant
mineral leases,
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all and every or any of the mines lodes ores quarries veins strata and
seams of copper lead iron coal stone clay and all other mincrals and
substances whatsoever in one or more block or blocks unopened as
well as opened in under or upon the said lands and hereditaments
and whether the surface of the lands and hereditaments in or under
which the same or any part thereof respectively shall be or shall not
have been already leased together with any part of such surface which
may be thought necessary or convenient to be held for buildings roads
or ways or other purposes with such mines or quarries together with
full liberty and authority to search for work win take usc 'and dispose
of all such ores coals and minerals as shall be found therein and to
sink and make shafts pits levels drifts trenches air-gates way-gates
and watercourses and to erect and use any smelting refining or other
furnaces or mills fire steam or other engines and machinery work-
men's and other houses buildings sheds or other conveniences and to
use all other lawful ways and means whatsoever not only for finding
separating and cleansing any of the said minerals but for converting
any of them into a manufactured condition and also to take and
use sufficient ground room heap room and pit room for placing or
manufacturing any of the said ores coals and minerals and for
laying the waste refuse or rubbish to be from time to time produced
from the said mines and quarrics and also with free and full liberty
to use or make and use all proper and convenient railways and other
ways for the carriage of materials and articles to such mines or
quarries and for the carriage or delivery of any of the said ores coals
and mincrals with horses carts waggons and other carriages and
generally upon such terms and with such stipulations as shall be
reasonable usual or necessary for any of the purposes aforcsaid so
that in every such lease there be reserved and made payable the
best and most improved yearly rent dues duties tolls or royalties that
can be reasonably obtained for the same without taking any fine
premium or foregift for the granting thereof and so as that there
be contained in every such lcasc proper and reasonable covenants
and agreements by every such lessee for the due payment of such
rents dues duties tolls or royalties thereby reserved and for the
working and management of the said mincs quarries and works
and a power of re-entry for non-payment of such rents dues dutics
tolls or royalties and so as the respective lessees duly execute a
duplicate or counterpart of such leases Provided always that out of
the gross income to be derived from such rents dues duties tolls or
royalties there shall be set apart (upon the payment thereof from time
to time to the said Henry Hill Osborne Patrick Hill Osborne Alick
Osborne and Ben Marshall Osborne or other the Trustees of the said
will and codicil) by the said Henry Hill Osborne Patrick Hill
Osborne Alick Osborne and Ben Marshall Orborne or other the
trustees a sum equal to twenty-five per cent. of every such amount so
paid to them during the life-time of the said Henry Hill Osborne
Patrick Hill Osborne Alick Osborne Ben Marshall Osborne George
Osborne Hamilton Osborne Jane MacCabe and Ann Osborne or the
survivors or survivor of them And the sums so to be set apart shall
with alt accumulations of intercst be invested from time to time in
Government securities or on mortgage of real estate in the Colony
of New South Wales for the benefit of the person or persons who
shall be ultimately cntitled to the said lands and hereditaments with
power to the said Henry TIill Osborne Patrick Hill Osborne Alick
Osborne and Ben Marshall Osborne or other the Trustees to alter
vary and transfer such securitics for others of the like nature And
the remaining three-fourths part of such sums so to be derived as
aforesaid shall be payable to the parties entitled thereto in the same
way
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way and subject to such conditions and restrictions as income derivable
from the said lands and hereditaments under the said will and codicil
And after the death of the survivor of them the said Henry Hill
Osborne Patrick Ilill Osborne Alick Osborne Ben Marshall Osborne
George Osborne Iamilton Osborne Jane MacCabe and Ann Osborne
the proceeds of the sums so invested shall be divided and paid in
manner as is provided by the said will and codicil in respect to the
said lands and hereditaments.
3. It shall be lawful for the said Henry Hill Osborne Patrick
Ifill Osborne Alick Osborne and Ben Marshall Osborne or other the
Trustees of the said will and codicil for the time being to make lay
out and alter and concur in the making laying out and altering of any
roads streets or ways on and over any part or parts of the said lands
hereditaments and premises and also to undertake and concur in
undertaking any works for and to make erect and carry out and concur
in making erecting and carrying out any erections sewers drains
watercourses lamps lighting or any other works which may in their
discretion conduce to the better laying out or letting of the said lands
and hereditaments or the convenience and enjoyment of those persons
who may have taken on lease any part thereof The cost of any such
works on the part of the said person or persons acting under the
powers given by this scction or their proportion of such cost shall for
the purpose of this Act be held to be costs and expenses of and
incidental to leases hereunder and retainable accordingly 'For any of
the purposes of this section such person or persons may reserve and
dedicate cither absolutcly or upon any condition any part or parts of
the said lands hereditaments and premises.
SCHEDULE.
All that picce or parcel of land situate in the Parish of Ilexham in the county of
Northumberland in the Colony of New South Wales containing by admeasurement six
hundred and cighty acres be the same more or Jess Commencing at the eastern extreme
of the north boundary -line of a surveyed portion of one thousand and seventy acres of
land and bounded on the south by eighty-five chains of that boundary-line bearing west
on the west by a north line of eighty chains div iding it from a surveyed portion of eight
hundred and thirty aeres on the north by cighty- five chains of the south boundary- line
of William Sparkes' grant bearing cast and on the east by a south line of eighty chains
to the eastern extreme of the north bound: ary-line of the "aforesaid surveyed portion of
one thousand and seventy acres Being the land sold as lot five pursuant to advertise-
ment of twenty-sixth July one thousand cight hundred and thirty-six.
All that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement fifty acres of land
be the same more or less situate lyiug and being in the County of Northamberland and
Parish of Alnwick in the said Colony of New South Wales Commencing at the south
extreme of the cast boundary-line of Cummins' one thousand acres gr ant and bounded
on the west by sixty chains of that boundary-line beari ing north on 'the north by eight
chains and fifty links of the south boundary-line of Eales! grant bearing east on the east
by a south line of sixty chains and on the south by eight chains and "lifty links of the
north boundary-line of Sparkes' grant bearing west to the south extreme of the east
boundary-line of Cummins' grant aforesaid. Being the land promised to James Nowlan
of which he was authorized to take possession on sixth December one thousand cight
hundred and thirty as a small grant in licu of the like quantity of which he received
possession on sixth September one thousand cight hundred and thirty but now granted
to the said John Terry Hughes and John Hosking in accordance with the report on
memorial number seven hundred and fifty made on the tenth day of November one
thousand cight hundred and thirty-five by the Commissioners appointed under the Act
of the Colonial Legislature fourth Wi Tian Fourth number nine.
All that picce or parcel of land in the said Colony containing by admeasurc-
ment six hundred and forty acres be the same more or less situated in the County of
Northumberland and Parish of Stockrington Commencing on a line eighty chains
south by compass of the south-west corner of the Parish of Alnwick and bounded on the
cast by'a south line by compass of eighty chains on the south by a west line by compass
of eighty chains and on the north by a west line by compass of cighty chains to the
point of commencement Being the land promised to Thomas Luscombe and of which
he was authorized to take possession on twelfth March one thousand eight hundred and
thirty
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thirty as a primary grant Being also the land advertised in favour of the said John
Terry Hughes at the request of the promisee as number seventy-six in the Government
notice dated tenth September one thousand cight hundred and forty-one and the deed
now prepared in his name in pursuance thereof.
All that piece or parcel of land in the said Colony containing by admeasure-
ment sixty-one acres be the same more or less situated in the County of Northumber-
land and Parish of Maitland Commencing at the north-west corner of a measured
portion of sixty-one acres and bounded on the south by the north boundary-line of that
land bearing cast thirty-three chains on the east by a road one chain wide dividing it
from a measured portion of forty-six acres one rood and S. Clift's sixty acres bearing
north eighteen chains fifty links on the north by a road one chain wide dividing it from
a measured portion of sixty-one acres bearing west thirty-three chains and on the west
by a line bearing south eighteen chains fifty links to the north-west corner of the sixty-
one acres aforesaid. Being the land sold as lot eight in pursuance of the Proclamation
of twenty-seventh February one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
All that piece or parcel of land in the said Colony containing by admeasurement
sixty-one acres be the same more or less situated in the County of Northumberland
and Parish of Maitland Commencing at the south-west corner of a measured
portion of sixty-one acres and bounded on the north by the south boundary-line of that
land bearing east thirty-three chains on the east by a road one chain wide dividing
it from a measured portion of forty-six acres one rood bearing south eighteen chains fifty
links on the south by a line bearing west thirty-three chains and on the west by a line
bearing north cighteen chains fifty links to the south-west corner of the sixty-one acres
aforesaid Being the land sold as lot nine in pursuance of the Proclamation of twenty-
seventh February one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
All that piece or parcel of land in the said Colony containing by admeasurement
sixty-one aeres be the same more or less situated in the County of Northumberland and
Parish of Maitland Commencing at a point one chain west of the south-east corner of
J. A. Browne's sixty acres and bounded on the north by the south boundary-line of that
land and its westerly prolongation being a line in all bearing west thirty-three chains on
the west by a line bearing south cighteen chains fifty links to a road on the south by
that road one chain wide dividing it from a measured portion of sixty-one acres bearing
east thirty-three chains and on the east by a road one chain wide dividing it from Samuel
Clift's sixty acres and part of John Stewart's sixty-seven acres bearing north eighteen
chains fifty links tv the point one chain west from J. A. Browne's sixty acres portion
aforesaid Being the land sold as lot seven in pursuance of the Proclamation of twenty-
seventh February one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
All that piece or parcel of land in the said Colony containing by admeasurement
twenty acres be the same more or less situated in the County of Northumberland and
Parish of Maitland Commencing at the north-west corner of a measured portion of
twenty-two acres and bounded on the east by the west boundary-line of that land bearing
south twenty-one chains on the south bya road one chain wide dividing it from a
measured portion of twenty-two acres and a measured portion of twenty-one acres
bearing north forty-three degrees west twenty-nine chains and on the north by part of
the south boundary-line of a measured portion of fifty-six acres bearing east nineteen
chains sixty links to the north-west corner of the twenty-two acres aforesaid Being the
land sold as lot five in pursuance of the Proclamation of twenty-seventh February one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
All that piece or parcel of land in the said Colony containing by admeasurement
twenty-two acres be the same more or less situated in the County of Northumberland
and Parish of Maitland Commencing at the south-east corner of a measured portion of
fifty-six acres and bounded on the north by part of the south boundary of that land
being a line bearing west nine chains sixty links on the west by the east boundary-line
of a measured portion of twenty acres bearing south twenty-one chains on the south by
a road one chain wide dividing from a measured portion of twenty-two acres bearing
south sixty-two and a-half degrees east ten chains seventy-five links on the east by a line
bearing north twenty-five chains eighty links to the south-east corner of the fifty-six acres
aforesaid Being the land sold as lot six in pursuance of the Proclamation of the twenty-
seventh February one thousand cight hundred and fifty-five.
All that piece or parcel of land in the said Colony containing by admeasurement
fifty-six acres be the same more or less situate in the County of Northumberland and
Parish of Maitland Commencing at the north-east corner of a measured portion of
twenty-two acres and bounded on south by the north boundary-line of that land and the
north boundary-line of a measured portion of twenty acres bearing west twenty-nine
chains twenty links on the west by a road one chain wide dividing it from George Weller's
sixty acres bearing north nineteen chains thirty links on the north by part of the south
boundary-line of Edward Ferraby's one thousand and eighty acres bearing east twenty-
nine chains twenty links and on the east by a line bearing south nineteen chains thirty
links to the north-east corner of the twenty-two acres aforesaid Being the land sold
as lot fifteen in pursuance of the Proclamation of twenty-seventh February one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-five.
All that piece or parcel of land in the said Colony containing by admeasurement
forty-six acres and one rood be the same more or less situated in the County of
Northumberland and Parish of Maitland Commencing at the south-west corner of a
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measured portion of forty-seven acres and bounded on the east by the west boundary-
line of that land bearing north twenty-nine chains on the north by a road one cham
wide dividing it from Samuel Cliff's sixty aercs bearing west sixteen chains on the west
by a road one chain wide dividing it from two measured portions of sixty-one acres cach
bearing south twenty-nine chains and on the south by a line bearing east sixteen chains
to the south-west corner of the forty-seven acres aforesaid Being the land sold as lot
ten in pursuance of the Proclamation of iwenty-seventh February one thousand cight
hundred and fifty-five.
All that piece or parcel of Jand containing by admeaxurement one thousand and
ciehty acres of land be the same more or less situate lying and being in the County of
Northumberland and Parish of Maitland in the said Colony of New South Wales
Commencing at the south-east corner of 1', Wickham's six hundred and forty-acre farm
and bounded on the east by eighty chains of the west boundary-line of the Parish of
Alnwick bearing south by compass on the south by a west line by compass of one
hundred and thirty-five chains on the west by a north linc by compass of eighty chains
and on the north by an cast line by compass of one hundred and thirty-five chains to
the south-east corner of Wickham's farm as aforesaid Being a portion of the one
thousand two hundred and eighty acres of land promised to the said Edward Ferraby
and of which said portion he was authorized to take possession on sixteenth December
one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine as a primary grant being also the land
advertised as number thirty-six in the Government notice dated eighth January one
thousand cight hundred and thirty-eight.
All that piece of land situated at Bellambi in the Parish of Wonona County of
Camden and Colony of New South Wales containing twenty-six acres two roods or
thereabouts Commencing on the northern side of Bellambi Road at its intersection
with a road one chain wide and bounded thence on the south by Bellambi Road bearing
casterly ten chains to another road one chain wide on the east by that road bearing
northerly twenty-seven chains sixty-seven links to Bellambi Creek on the north by that
ereck bearing westerly to the first-mentioned road one chain wide and on the west by
that road bearing southerly twenty-six chains thirty links to the. point of commencement.
Also that other picce of land situated as aforesaid containing fifty acres or
thereabouts Commencing on the northern side of Bellambi Road at its intersection
with Thomas-street and bounded thence on the south by that road bearing westerly
twenty-one chains to a road one chain wide on the west by that road bearing northerly
twenty-eight chains seven links to Bellambi Creek on the north-east by that creck and
Bellambi Haven bearing south-casterly to Bay-strect on the south-east by that strect
bearing south-westerly five chains to Thomas-street aforesaid and on the east by that
street bearing southerly ten chains thirty links to the point of commencement.
Also that other picce of land situated as aforesaid containing eleven aeres three
roods seven perches or thereabouts Commencing on the northern side of Bellambi
Road at its intersection with Thomas-strect and bounded thenee on the south by that
road bearing easterly seven chains seventy-three links to land of A. Lorking on the
east by that land bearing northerly four chains fifty-cight links on the south-west by
that land a continued line and land of Mr, Dunlop beinz a curved line bearing south-
easterly and easterly to the Wharf Reserve again on the cast by that reserve bearing
northerly five chains twenty-three links to Bellambi Haven on the north-east by that
haven bearing north-westerly to Bay-street on the north-west by that street bearing
south-westerly five chains to Thomas-strect aforesaid and on the west by that strect
bearing southerly nine chains fifty links to the point of commencement.
Also that other piece of land situated as aforesaid containing ten acres or there-
abouts Commencing on the northern side of Bellambi Road at its intersection with the
Wharf Reserve and bounded thence on the west by that reserve bearing north cight
chains four links to Bellambi Haven on the north-east by that haven bearing north-
easterly to land of Mrs. Miller on the north-east again on the north-west and on the
south-west by that land bearing south-easterly a curved line bearing north-casterly and
a line bearing north-westerly to Bellambi Haven aforesaid again on the north-west and
on the cast by that haven and the South Pacific Oecan bearing north-casterly and
southerly to Bellambi Road aforesaid and on the south by that road bearing westerly
seven chains eighty links to the point of commencement.
Also all that other picee of land situated as aforesaid containing forty-five acres
two roods ten perches or thereabouts Commencing on the southern side of Bellambi
Road at its intersection with Thomas-street and bounded thence on the west by that
street bearing southerly six chains to a water reserve on the south again on the west
and on the north by that reserve bearing easterly five chains southerly two chains and
westerly five chains to Thomas-strect aforesaid again on the west by that strect bearing
southerly twenty-six chains thirty links to the South Pacifie Ocean on the south-east by
that ocean bearing north-casterly to Bellambi-road aforesaid and again on the north by
that road bearing westerly twenty-four chains fifty links to the point of commencement.
Also that other piece of land situated as aforesaid containing thirty-six acres three
roods or thereabouts Commencing on southern side of Bellambi-road at its intersection
with Thomas-street and bounded thence on the north by that road bearing westerly
twenty-one chains to a road one chain wide on the west by that road bearing southerly
twelve chains eighty links to a creek on the south by that creck downwards to Bellambi
Lake on the east on the south on the west on the north-west and on the south-west by
ce that
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that lake bearing northerly easterly southerly south-westerly and south-easterly to the
South Pacific Ocean on the south-east by that ocean bearing north-easterly to Thomas-
street aforesaid and again on the east by that street bearing northerly thirty-five chains
thirty links to the point of commencement.
Also that other picce of land situated as aforesaid containing fourtcen acres two
roods or thereabouts Commencing on the southern side of Bellambi-road at its inter-
section with a road one chain wide and bounded thence on the north by Bellambi-road
bearing westerly ten chains to another road once chain wide on the west by that road
bearing southerly seventeen chains forty links to a creck on the south-cast by that creck
downwards to the first-mentioned road one chain wide and on the east by that road
bearing northerly twelve chains twenty links to the point of commencement.
Also that other piece of land situated as aforesaid containing forty-three acres or
thereabouts. Commencing on the eastern side of a road fifty links wide at its inter-
section with another road fifty links wide and bounded thence on the west by the first-
mentioned road bearing southerly fourteen chains fifty links to a creek on the south-west
and on the north-west by that creek downwards to Towradgi Creek on the south and on
the south-east by that creek downwards to the South Pacific Ocean again on the south-
east by that ocean bearing north-easterly to the other road fifty links wide and on the
north by that road bearing westerly twenty-four chains to the point of commencement.
Also that other piece of land situated as aforesaid containing thirty-four acres
or thereabouts Commencing on the n
