The Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home Act 1927 (NSW)

The Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home Act 1927 (Private Act)

An Act to incorporate the members of the Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home; to promote the objects thereof; to vest certain lands and other property in a Body Corporate; to declare the trusts thereof and to confer powers thereon; and for other incidental purposes. WHEREAS by an Indenture bearing date the fifteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, registered number ninety-eight, book three hundred and seventy-eight, made between Henry Solomon, David Mitchell, The Honorable Henry Emanuel Cohen, George Judah Cohen and Mark Myers therein described and designated Trustees of the first part the said David Mitchell and William Mears therein described of the second part and the several persons whose names and seals were or should be from time to time subscribed and affixed thereto of the third part The said parties of the first second and third parts each for himself severally and respectively and for his several and respective heirs executors and administrators did thereby covenant promise and declare with and to the others and other of them and each and every of their heirs executors administrators and assigns jointly and severally in manner following (inter alia) that the several parties thereto should become and be associated together and constitute and form a Society under the name or style of "The Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home" and that the objects and purposes of the Society should be the erecting and building of a Messuage or House as a Home for the shelter, support and relief of aged, infirm and destitute persons of the Jewish Faith, the purchase of other land for the like purpose or the purchase of any tenement or premises for the shelter and support of any such persons as aforesaid and the relief of any such persons as aforesaid by admission to the Home donations pensions and loans and such Home should be carried on and supported by voluntary subscriptions and donations And that the said Henry Solomon, David Mitchell, Henry Emanuel Cohen, George Judah Cohen and Mark Myers be and they were thereby appointed the Trustees of the said Society and that certain land situate on the west side of Dowling-street in the City of Sydney described in an Indenture of Conveyance bearing date the twentieth day of November one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six made between Alban Joseph Riley therein described of the one part and the said Trustees of the other part should as at the date of the now reciting Indenture stand in the names of the said Trustees and that they should stand seized of the same upon trust for the objects and purposes of the said Society and should convey or assure the same as the Board of Management should in writing from time to time direct or appoint And whereas a messuage or house was erected and built upon the said land situate in Dowling-street aforesaid and was used as a Home by the said Society And whereas the said land situate in Dowling-street aforesaid with the messuage or house erected thereon was sold by the Board of Management of the said Society for the time being and duly conveyed by the then Trustees of the said Society And whereas certain other land in the Municipality of Woollahra more particularly described in the Schedule hereto together with a building thereon was purchased by the Board of Management for the time being of the said Society for the purpose of the said Society and conveyed to the present Trustees of the said Society And whereas by the unanimous voice of a combined meeting of members of a Society known as the Sydney Hebrew Philanthropic and Orphan Society and of members of the Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home the said two institutions became amalgamated on the twentieth day of May one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine And whereas under the terms of Amalgamation it was stipulated that the name of The Sydney Hebrew Philanthropic and Orphan Society should be preserved and the amalgamated Societies have since then been known as The Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home with which is incorporated the Sydney Hebrew Philanthropic Society And whereas with the increase of population since their amalgamation entailing much larger scope for charitable activity it may now or in future be desirable to separate them and that each again may act in its own charitable sphere and whereas doubts have arisen as to whether these amalgamated Societies can be separated And whereas doubts have also arisen as to whether the said Societies have power jointly or severally to join amalgamate with or form a constituent part of or become a member of a Federation Union or Organisation of Jewish Charities And whereas doubts have also arisen as to the true intent and meaning of certain provisions in the hereinbefore recited Indenture of the fifteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six And whereas no power is contained in the said Indenture to alter any of its provisions And whereas it is expedient to remove such doubts and to remodel and declare the trusts expressed and implied in the said Indenture of the fifteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six in respect of all the real and personal property both present and future of or to which the said Society is shall or maybe entitled and to vest the same in a Body Corporate And whereas the present Trustees of the said Society in whom the said land as more particularly described in the Schedule hereto is legally vested are George Judah Cohen, Leopold Wolfe Cohen, Louis Morris Phillips, Ernest Ralph Cohen and Bernard David Rothbury: Be it therefore enacted by the King'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: