Wellington Presbyterian Church Lands Act 1899 (NSW)

Act No. 4!), 1899. 485

Wellington Presbyterian Church Lands.

Act No. 49, 1899.

A l l A (* 4 to caned the appropriation of certain wim .inoton

land in the town of Wellinghon, to divest tlie	lâ w	.
Minister of Ihililic* Instruction of his estate in the said land, to dedicate the said land as a site for a I^reshyterian (dinrch and Manse, and to authorise certain dealings with the same. [22ivd December, 1899.]

TX/TnEllEAS by notice publislietl in the Gazette of the elcn'ontli day PrenmUo.

of Septi'inbev, one tlionsand (dglit hundred and .seventy-four, the land described in the Sclu'dule hereto (wliich land was on that date Crown lands within the meaning’ of the Crown Irvnds Ali('nation Act of 1861) was under section live of the said Act dc'dicated by the Governor as the site for a Presbyterian Church and Manse: And whereas, by notification published in accordance with and in ])ur- suance of the Lands for Public Purposes Ac<piisition Act in the Gazette of the fifth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, the Governor declared that the said land had been appropriated for a public purpose, that is to say for the enjction of a public school at Wcdlington : And whereas by virtue of such puhli(!a- tion the said dedication was thereby cancelled and the said land was ther<d)y vested in the Minister of Public Instructiou and his successors on behalf of Her Majesty for an estate of inheritance in fee simple’ in j)oss(’ssion freed and discliarged from all trusts, obligations, estate's, inte'rests, contracts, charges, rates, rights-of-way, or other eeasemeents Avhatsoevcr, anel to tlic intent that tlic legal estate tlicrein, together Avith all poAvers incielcnt thereto or conferred by the said Act, shonlel he vested in the Minister as a trustee : Anel AAdicreas it is desirable to caiu’cl the said appropriation and to dAcst the Mmister of Public Instruction of the estate vested in him as aforesaid, anel to dedicate the said land for the same purposes as the laud aaws deelicateel as aforesaid; Pee it therefore enacted by the Qireen’s Most Excellemt Majesty, by anel Avith the aelvice and consent of the LegislatiA'c Council and Legislative Assembly of N cav South Wales in Parliament assembled, anel by the authority of the same', as folloAvs :—

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1. The appropriation of the laud described in the Schedule Cancellation of

hereto, notified by the GoA êrnor by publication in the Gazette of the dedication

fifth day of August, one thousanel eight hundreel and ninety-tAVo, is ofi.iud for a

hereby cancelled, and the Minister of Public Instruction is hereby

divested

486  Act Xo. oO, 1896.

JusUces {Fines).

divested of tlie estate vested in liiin 1)V A'irtue of the said puhlication, and tlie said land is licreliy dedicated as a site for a Presbyterian Church and i\ranse,and maybe granted for tliat purpose in fee-simple, and may he otherwise dealt with as if the dedication of the land for a Presbyterian Church and iManse on the eleventh day of September, one thousand eiidit hundred and seventy-four, under the provisions ol‘ section live of the Crown lainds Alienation Act of 1861 had remained in force.

Short tiilo. 2. This Act may be cited as the “ Wellington Presbyterian

Church Lands Act, IStbJ.”

S^CIIEDULE.

All ih;ii |)i(vf or parcel of l:\nil sitimteil in the town anil parisli of At'^elliiiRton, county of Wellington, anil containing an area of one acre two roods : Commencing; at: tlio south-east corjier of section seventv-nine, and bounded tlicnce on the south hv part of t he north side of Araxwcll-street hoariip: west llro chains ; thence on the west by a line hearing nortli three chains : thence on the north liv a lino hearing cast five chains to tlio west side of Arthur-street ; and thence on the east by part of that side of that street hearing south three chains, to the point of cnmmcnceinont,—to include allotments throe of one acre, and four of two roods, section sevcuty-niiic.