Petersham Land Purchase Act 1876 No 3a (NSW)

No. XXIII.

An Act to enable William Oondie Eenwick ivTr»™A>i l.«d - . j i . P urchase.

and other persons to purchase witliout	—
competition certain parcels of land in the Parish of Petersham. [23ri? February, 187().]

"%T7IIEUEAS the said William Condie Eenwick and otlior persons PrcumUe. ,

mentioned in the Eirst Schedule to this Act arc now in the occupation of certain parcels of land situate in the Parish of Petersham and County of Cumherland and which are comprised within an area particularly described in the Second Scliedulc hereto and the said William Condie PenAvick and other persons scA'crally claim to he lawfully entitled to portions of the said area as the purchasers of the aforesaid parcels of land respectively from the representatives of the late Doctor Itobert Wardcll and tlic late Honorable llohert Camplxdl who together had been in the undisturbed possession of the said area and of the lands adjoining (the same being knoAAm as tlie Petersham and Canterbury Estates) for an alleged period of about ilfty years And Avhereas doubts have arisen whether the aforesaid area of land was e\'er granted or sold by the CroAvn And whereas it is expedient that the said AVilliam Condie IlenAviek and tlie otluu’ persons mentioned in the said Eirst Schedule should he allowed to purchase the said parcels of land so claimed by them respectively Avithout compet ition and at prices to be determined in the manner hereinafter provided but doubts have also arisen Avhether the said AVilliam Condie llemvick and the other persons mentioned in the said Eirst Schedule being holders of the adjacent lands are entitled under tin; eleventh section of the

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No. 23. 39° VIC. 1876.

Fetersham Land Purchase.

“ Crown Lands Alienation Act of 1861” to claim the right of purchasing such parcels of the aforesaid area of land as adjoining them respective freeholds without competition according to the provisions of the said section 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 M^ales in Parliament assembled and by authority of the same as follow's :—

Land mentioned in	1. I t shall be lawful for the Govemor in Council to sell and County of Cumberland containing twenty-five acres a little more or less more particularly described in the Second Schedule to this Act to the saitl William Condie Benwdck and the several other persons men­ tioned in the Eirst Schedule hereto (such persons severally being holders of adjacent lands) to the extent thertjof claimed by each of them respectively as aforesaid without competition and at prices to he named by the Governor in Council or if the same should bo disapproved of by the said persons or either of them, then that the price should he determined by appraisement being not less than the minimum upset price per acre of the class of land as set forth in section twenty-three of the “ Crowm Lands Alienation Act of 1861” in the manner provided for by section tw'enty-eight of the said Act.
brsTid Without*	grant all that pieee of land situated in the Parish of Petersham and
competition.

SCHEDULES.

PIEST SCHEDULE.

"William Condie Eenwick Michael Eafferty Samuel Henry Terry and John Eyers

as Trustee for Mrs. Louisa "W eal.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

All that piece of land situated in the Parish of Petersham and County of Cumber­ land containing twenty-five acres a little more or less Commencing at the southernmost corner of Haven’s twenty-five acres grant and bounded on the north-west by that grant being a line bearing north-easterly to Bloodworth’s fifty acres grant on the north-east by the south-western boundaries of Bloodworth’s fifty acres Bloodworth’s twenty acres and John Hammon’s twenty-five acres being a line bearing south-easterly to a road dividing this land from Hornerson’s thirty acres and Johnson’s fifty acres grants on the south by that road bearing westerly to another road dividing this land from Clephan’s one hundred acres grant and on the south-west by the last-mentioned road bearing north-westerly to the point of commencement.

No. XXIV.