Prison at Fremantle (1851) (WA)

WE STERN AUSTRALIA

ANNO QUARTODECIMO

VICTORI/E REGIME

No. 22

An Ordinance to vest the Site of the Convict Prison at Fremantle in certain Officers in Trust for Her Majesty, her Heirs and Successors for ever.

[Assented to 16th May, 1851.

HEREAS a considerable space of ground on the town site of

Fremantle is required as a site for the Convict Prison about

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to be erected there, and whereas it is expedient that the title to the

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Site of the Convict Prison, Fremantle

said piece of ground should be vested in certain official persons in trust for Her Majesty for the purpose aforesaid, and whereas the right of the property in certain streets or portions of streets included in the said space is now vested in the Trustees of the said town : Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, that from and after the passing of this Ordinance all right of property which may have at any time been vested by Ordinance or otherwise in the Trustees of the said town of Fremantle in any part of the area, the boundaries of which are more particularly described in the subjoined Schedule, shall absolutely cease and determine, and that the whole of said area and all the right and title in law or equity thereto shall be and the same are hereby vested in the Comptroller-General of Convicts for the time being or any officer acting in this Colony in that capacity and the Colonial Secretary for the time being in trust for Her Majesty, her heirs and successors for ever.

CHARLES FITZGERALD,

GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.

SCHEDULE REFERRED TO

FREMANTLE LOT CD., Contents—(39a. ir. Op.) Thirty-nine acres, one rood, more or less.

Bounded on the south-west by a line about 3 chains, GO links in length, extend- ing in a direction east 34 degrees 52 minutes south along South Terrace from the south-west end of Henderson-street, then by a line about 0 chains 55 links in length in direction east, 50 degrees 7 minutes south along South Terrace aforesaid, and by a line about 4 chains in length, extending east 04 degrees 39 minutes south along South Terrace, to a prolongation of the north-west side of Arundell-street ; on the south-east, by about 10 chains 95 links of said prolongation, extending north 50 degrees 7 minutes east, then by a line about 3 chains 52 links in length, extending north 5 degrees west, and by a line about 10 chains 00 links in length, extending east 5 degrees north ; on the east by a line about 13 chains 52 links in length, extending north 5 degrees west ; and on the north by a line about 10 chains 60 links in length, extending west 5 degrees south, then by a line about 5 chains 38 links in length, extending south 65 degrees 45 minutes west, then by a line about 2 chains 74 links in length, extending south 27 degrees west, then by about 3 chains 56 links of the south-west side of Queen-street, extending west 27 degrees north, and finally by the south-east side of Henderson-street aforesaid, extending south 27 degrees west to South Terrace aforesaid, as more particularly shown and delineated in the diagram or plan herewith—all bearings and boundaries here given being true or thereabouts, and an iron boundary mark being fixed at every angle or corner of the land herein described.