Scots Church Trustees Act 1832 3 Wm IV (NSW)

3° GUL. IV. 1832,

* Scots Church Trustees.

"meme An Act to enable the Trustees of the Scots Church in Sydney in the Colony of New South Wales to grant a mortgage to Govern- ment on the buildings now erecting on their allotment for the amount of a loan advanced by Government to enable the said Trustees to erect the said Church and also for the amount of a further loan advanced by Government in aid of the establishment of the Australian College. [13th October, 1832.]

Preamble. WHEREAS by a certain deed of grant duly executed and bearing date the tenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six His Mxeellency Lieutenant General Ralph Darling then Captain General and Governor-in-Chicf of the said Colony did under and by virtue and in pursuance of the power and authority in him vested give and grant unto the Reverend John Dunmore Lang Doctor in Divinity John Pipcr Thomas M'Vitie and David Ramsay Esquires Trustees for the Congregation of Scots Presbyterians in Sydney and to their successors in office for ever a certain piece or parcel of land containing two roods and thirty-nine perches lying and situate in the Parish of Saint Philip in the County of Cumberland bounded on the north-east by Underwood's allotment bearing cast thirty-six degrees and a half south one chain and cighty links on the south-east: by a line bearing south thirty-threc degrees and a half west three chains and fifty-seven links to the barrack wal by that wall to the street one chain on the south-west by the street bearing north-west by Charlotte-place bearing north thirty-one degrees and thirty minutes west one chain and forty-three links and on the north-west by Charlotte-place bearing north thirty- -six degrees and wv half east three chains and sixty-four links but declaring "that the eround thereby conveyed was granted for the purpose of erecting a Scots Chureh in which the ordinances of religion should be dispensed by a regularly ordained Minister of the Church of Scotland and such other buildings therewith connected as the Trustees might think fit to erect And whereas the Colonial Treasurer of the said Colony by an order or warrant of His Excellency Sir Thomas Brisbane then Governor of the said Colony in the vear of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five on the part of the Government of the said Colony lent and advanced to the said John Dunmore Lang Doctor in Divinity John Piper Thomas M-Vitie and David Ramsay as Trustees as afore- said the sum of two thousand four hundred dollars for the purpose of enabling the said Trustees to erecta Church upon the said parcel of land above mentioned upon condition of the repayment thereof by the said Trustees to the Government And whereas an Academical Tnstitution or College has lately been established for the education of youth and the said 'Trustees of the Seots Church have agrecd and consented that the necessary buildings for the purpose of carrying on the said Institution should be erected upon a part of the said parcel of land hereinbefore mentioned And whereas upon application being made to him for that purpose the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies has been pleased to authorize the