Sydney Bethel Union Trustees Act 1851 15 Vic (NSW)

196 15° VIC. 1851. Sydney Bethel Union Trustees.

Soxrr Bem An Act to enable the Trustees of "The Sydney Bethel Union" to sell their Land and Build- ings in Erskine-street Sydney and to erect a new Mariners' Church in a more convenient

situation and for other purposes therein men- tioned. [10th December, 1851.]

Preamble. WHEREAS by a deed of grant bearing date the third day of June one thousand eight hundred and forty-two Her Majesty Queen

Victoria did give and grant unto Francis Mitchell Thomas. Barker Ambrose Foss Robert Bourne and George Allen all of Sydney their

heirs and assigns an allotment of land in Erskine-street in the parish

of Saint Philip and in the city of Sydney containing fifteen and a half

perches and in the said grant described as " allotment number

" fourteen of section number fifty-five bounded on the south by a line

" bearing east fifteen degrees thirty minutes north one hundred and

" twenty-one links on the east by allotment number fifteen bearing

" north fifteen degrees thirty minutes west seventy-six links on the

«north by Erskine-street bearing west fifteen degrees thirty minutes

" south one hundred and thirty-six links and on the west by Darling

" Harbour" being the allotment promised by His Excellency Sir Richard Bourke on twenty-second September one thousand eight hun-

dred and thirty-four as the site for the Sydney Bethel Union Chapel

to hold in trust for the erection of the Sydney Bethel Union Chapel and

for no other purpose And whereas a Bethel Union Chapel or Church

was duly erected on such land for the use of mariners And whereas

such Mariners' Church being in an inconvenient situation it is degmed expedient to sell the said piece of land with the buildings thereon

and to obtain other land in a more suitable situation and to erect a

new Church thereon for the use of mariners visiting the Port of