Bathurst Hospital Act 1876 No bha (NSW)

An Act to authorize the sale of the site of the

Bathurst Hospital and to provide for the
expenditure of the money received there­
from in the erection of suitable buildings

for a like purpose on a new site. [2nd

May, 1876.]

WHEREAS Richard Young Cousins J.P. Edward Gell J.P. Richard Machattie M.D. Edmund Webb J.P. (formerly M.P. ) and Henry	Rotton J.P. have been duly appointed and now are the Trustees of the
land at Bathurst dedicated as a site for an hospital which said land is more particularly described in the Schedule hereto And whereas the buildings erected on the said land are inadequate and unfit for the requirements of the district and the site has become unsuitable for the purposes of a public hospital And whereas it is expedient that pro­ vision should be made upon the acquisition of a better site for the erection thereon of suitable buildings for such hospital and that the Trustees
for the time being of the said land should bo empowered to sell and
dispose of the same in order to raise a sum of money to be expended in
defraying part of the cost of erecting on such better site suitable build­
ings for the said hospital 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. I t shall be lawful for the Trustees for the time being of the said Bathurst Hospital to sell and dispose of the said parcel of land described in the Schedule hereto 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 can be reasonably had or obtained for the
same and to convey and assure the same or any portion or portions
thereof when sold to the purchaser or purchasers thereof in fee simple
freed and discharged from all trusts affecting the said land And the receipt in writing of the said Trustees for the purchase moneys arising
from such sale or sales shall be a sufficient discharge to any and every
purchaser of the said land or portions thereof and exonerate such purchaser 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 and their successors 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 erection of a public hospital in the town of or in the vicinity of the town of Bathurst upon a suitable site for that purpose And the said Trustees and their successors shall also stand possessed of any moneys voted or to be
voted by Parliament in aid of the building fund of the said hospital
and also all other moneys coming to their hands as such Trustees upon the like trusts as are hereinbefore declared in respect of the proceeds of sale of the said land And the receipts of any person or persons to
whom any moneys shall be paid by the said Trustees or their successors
under the provisions of this Act shall be a valid and complete discharge to the said Trustees and their successors for such moneys.
3. No expenditure of any of the said moneys shall be made upon any new site unless such new site shall have been approved by the Governor with the advice of the Executive Council And all buildings
offices and their appurtenances to be erected on the land so approved of
shall be constructed according to plans and specifications to be approved
of by the Colonial Architect. 4.

4. No Trustee or Trustees under this Act shall he held respon­

sible for any involuntary losses or misapplication of any moneys coming
to the hands of the said Trustees under the provisions of this Act unless such loss or misapplication shall have happened through the wilful

neglect or default of the Trustees under this Act for the time being.

SCHEDULE.

A L L that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement two acres two 'roods and
nineteen perches be the same more or less situated in the county parish and town of Bathurst allotment number sixteen of section number nine Commencing at the north corner of the section and bounded thence on the north-west by Bentwick-street south­ westerly five chains and thirteen links on the south-west by the north-eastern boundary- line of allotment one south-easterly five chains eleven links on the south-east by the north-western line of allotment fifteen north-easterly five chains and twenty links to Howick-street and on the north-east by that street north-westerly five chains four links

to the point of commencement.