Agricultural College Endowments Act 1886 (SA)

ANNO QUADRAGESIMO NON0 ET QUINQUAGESIMO

A.D. 1886.

No. 384.

An Act for the Endowment and Regulation of an

Agricultural College.

[Assented to, Novem bey r yth, 1886.1

HEREAS it is desirable to make provision out of the lands of Preamble.

W the Crown for the endowment of an Agricultural College-

Be it thcrefore Enacted by the Governor of the Province of South

Australia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council

and House of Assembly of the said province, in this present Parlia-

ment assembled, as follows:

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1. This Act may be called "l'he Agricultural College Endow- Short titled

ment Act, 1886."

2. The Commissioner of Crown Lands for the time being of the Incorporation The Coramisaioner of

province, and his successors in office, shall be a body politic and f, ~ ~, , l t, , l corporate, under the corporate name of " The Commissioner for Endowmente* Agricultural Endowments," and by that name may sue and bc sued,

plead and be impleaded, in all Courts and before all Justices, and

shall have perpetual succession and a, common seal.

3. The Governor may reserve and grant to the Commissioner for Power to the , , Governor to grnnt

Agricultural Endowments, hereinafter called '' the Commissioner, 50,ooa lcM8 to the

any Crovn lands: Provided that the lands so granted to the commiwionera

Commissioner shall not exceed in the aggregate fifty thousand acres.

4. The sections of land situated in the Hundred of Mudla VesWclaue*

Wirra, County of Gawler, numbered 686, containing one hundred

and

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and twenty-four acres, or thereabouts; 687, contaizling one hundred and five acres, or thereabouts; 690, containing one hundred and eight acres, or thereabouts; 691, contaiuing one hundred and fifty- five acres, or thereaboute; 693, containing one hundred ancl twelve acres, or thereabouts; and 694, containing one hundred and twenty- four acres, or thereabouts; being all the land comprised in certifi- cate of title, Register Book vol. cxi., folio 249, are hereby vested in the Commissioner in fee-simple; and the Registrar-General is hereby directed to issue to and in the name of the Commissioner a certificate of title for the same under the provisions of " The Real Property Act of 1861," or any Act amending the aame or sub- stituted therefor.

Commissioner may

demise lands and 5, The Commissioner may from time to time demise and let any

nt mineral lands granted to or vested in him, either from year to year or by

c n c e 8 for purposes	lease for any term not exceeding twenty-one years, and may grant
of Act.
licences to any persons to search for and to remove minerals and metals from such lands, and may charge and recover such fees and other payments, and may impose such terms and conditions in respect of such licences as may be charged, rccovcrcd, and imposed under the laws from time to time in force respecting licences to search for minerals and metals on Crown lands; and all instruments of letting and leases of such lands (except leases for mining pur- poses) shall be comtrued as if they contained an exception of minerals and metals and a power to grant licences in respect of the same, as is provided for with respect to Crown lands and waste lands by the '' Crown Lands Consolidation Act," and by The Gold Mining Act, 1886," concerning mining for gold, and as shall for the time being be in force under any Act extending or amending or substituted for the same or either of them, and any regulations made thereunder; and the Commissioner shall, with respect to gold, have power to grant all such licences in regard to lands comprised
regulation as aforesaid be granted with respect to gold in regard in any lease for mining purposes as may under any such Act or to lands comprised in a mineral lease granted by the Crown.
Sw&ns 7-12 in-

clusive of the Educa- 6. The provisions contained in sections 7, 6, 9,10, 11, and 12 of

tional Lands Act	"The	Educational Lands Act, 1881,"	shall a p ~ l y,	so far as applicable,
to form part of this

Act.

to leases under this Act, and the said sections shall be read, mutatis mutaluLis, as part of this Act ; the expression Commissioner " in

the said sections bein read as meaning in this Act The Commis-

sioner of Agricultura Endowments," and the reference in the said f sections to leases under 'C The Education Act, 1875," or any Act

incorporated therewith, being read in this Act as a reference to

leases under this Act.

~pdi~~tionofincoma. 7, All rents, royalties, fees, penalties, and annual or other pay-

ments received in respect of any lease or licence to be granted under the puthority of this Act, shall be paid into the Treasury, and shall

be applied by the Treasurer towards the maintenance and enlarge-

ment of the building called the Agricultural College erected on the

land

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land mentioned in section 4, which building and land shall be used for the teaching of the science and practice of agriculture and the branches of knowledge connected therewith, and' towards the pay- ment of salaries and other expenses in respect of the said College and the purposcs thereof, but so that no such moneys shall be expended without the sanction of Parliament.

8, The Commissioner may, from time to .time, make regulations Commissioner may make regulahons

for the following objects :-	-	which are to be laid
before Parliament.

(a) For prescribing the course of study and practice to be

pursued at the College:

( b ) For prescribing the dutiea of the Professor of Agriculture,

and of other teachers in connection therewith:

(c) For regulating the admission of students at the College, and

the management thereof; and

(d) Generally for carrying into effect the object of this Act.

Regulations may be made under this section at any time after the passing of this Act, and shall be of the same effect as if they were containcd therein, and shall be judicially noticed.

Such regulations shall be published in the Government Gazette, and shall be laid before both I-Iouses of Parliament, if Parliament be in session at the time of the making thereof, or, if not, then as

soon as practicable after the beginning of the then next session of

Parliament.

If either House of Parliament, within a calcndar month after

any rules have been so laid before such House, resolve that such

rules or any of them ought to be annulled, the same shall, after the date of such resolution, be of no effect, without prejudice to any- thing done in the meantime under such rules or rule or to the

making of any new rules or rule.

In the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, I hereby assent to

this Bill.

WILLIAM C. F. ROBINSON, Governor.

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. Adelaide : By authority, E. SYILLEE, Government Printer, North-terrace.