Kent-street Roman Catholic Church Land Sale Act No krc (NSW)

An Act to enable the Very Reverend John Felix Sheridan, the Reverend Peter Young', Thomas Cooper Makinson, John Bridge, and Michael Landers, as trustees of cer-

WH E R E A S by a certain grant from the Crown, under the hand and seal of Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, Governor

and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of New South Wales, bearing

date the twentieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, the land described in the Schedule hereto, being situate in the Parish of Saint Phillip, in the City of Sydney, was granted unto the Most Reverend Roger Bede Vaughan, and John Felix Sheridan, Peter Young, Thomas Cooper Makinson, John Bridge, and Michael Landers, and their heirs, upon trust as a site for a Roman Catholic Church and presbytery. And whereas the said Roger Bede Vaughan departed this life on or about the eighteenth day of August, one

tain land situated in Kent-street, in the

City of Sydney, to sell the said land and to provide tor the application of the proceeds

thereof. [20th December, 1887.]

one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three. And whereas it is expedient that the said land should he sold, and that the proceeds to arise from such sale should he applied in or towards the purchase of another site for a Roman Catholic Church and presbytery in the said parish and the erection of such church and presbytery or church only within the parish aforesaid. Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legisla­ tive Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

1. After the passing of this Act it shall be lawful for the said John Felix Sheridan, Peter Young, Thomas Cooper Makinson, John Bridge, and Michael Landers, their heirs and assigns, or other the
trustee or trustees for the time being of the land comprised in the said grant of the twentieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-eight (hereinafter styled trustees), to sell and absolutely dispose of the said land, by public auction or private contract, and either in one lot or in several lots as they shall deem most expedient,

for such price or prices as can be had or obtained for the same, and

when sold to convey the same or any part or parts thereof to the pur- chaser or purchasers in fee simple freed and discharged from the said

trusts affecting the same, and the receipt in writing of the trustees, shall
absolutely discharge the purchaser or purchasers of the said land, or any part or parts thereof, from the purchase money payable by him or them from seeing to the application of the said purchase money, and from all liability as to the misapplication or non-application thereof.

2. The trustees, their heirs or assigns, shall stand possessed

of all moneys arising from any and every such sale or sales as

aforesaid upon trust to apply the proceeds of such sale in or towards purchasing and paying for an eligible site for a Roman Catholic Church and presbytery in the said parish, in the city of Sydney afore­ said, and building such church and presbytery or church only, and the receipt of any person or persons to whom any moneys shall be paid under the provisions of this Act shall be valid and complete dis­ charges to the trustees, their heirs or assigns, for such moneys. The said proceeds shall be expended in the purchase of a new site and towards the erection of such church and presbytery or church only within five years from the date of the passing of this Act.

3. This Act may be cited as the " Kent-street Roman Catholic Church Land Sale Act ."

THE SCHEDULE REFERRED TO.

All that piece or parcel of land in our said Colony, containing by admeasurement
one rood sis perches, be the same more or less, situated in the county of Cumberland,

parish of Saint Phillip, city of Sydney, part of section ninety-three : Commencing on the western building line of Kent-street, at the north-eastern corner of allotment four; and bounded thence on the east by that building line bearing north thirteen degrees fifteen minutes, west two chains thirty-five links ; on the north and west by lines dividing it

from allotment five bearing west thirteen degrees fifteen minutes, south one chain

twenty-five links ; and thence south thirteen degrees fifteen minutes, east two chains twenty-seven links ; and on the south by part of the northern boundary of allotment four aforesaid, bearing about east nine degrees thirty minutes, north one chain twenty-five links and three-fourths of a link, to the point of commencement.

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