Dioceses of Sydney and Newcastle Lands Investment Act 1858 22 Vic (NSW)

Suovex aso ~=An Act to remove doubts respecting the vesting

Newcastir Diocesan

Lan, of certain Lands situated within the Dioceses of Sydney and Newcastle respectively which

were formerly vested in the Bishop of Australia. [27th August, 1858. ]

Preamble HEREAS His late Majesty King William the Fourth did by letters patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of

Great Britain and lreland bearing date at Westminster the eighteenth

day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six in the

tenth year of His reign erect found make ordain and constitute all the territories

1858. 22° VIC.

Sydney und Newcastle Diocesan Lands.

territories and islands comprised within or dependent upon the Colonies of New South Wales Van Diemen's Land and Western Australia into a Bishop's See or Diocese and did declare and ordain that the same should be styled the Bishoprick of Australia and His said Majesty did by the said letters patent ordain make and constitute the Bishop ther eby appointed to be the Bishop and ordinary pastor of the said Sce of Australia to be a perpetual corporation and to have perpetual succession and that the said Bishop and his successors should be for ever thereafter called by the name of "The Bishop of Australia" And whereas by virtue of ecrtain powers of revocation contained in the said letters patent Ter Majesty Queen Victoria did with the concurrence of the said Bishop of Australia by letters patent bearing date the eighteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty-two wholly separate divide and exempt the Island of Van Diemen's Land and certain other portions of the said Diocese of Australia from the jurisdiction authority and Diocese of the said Bishop of Australia and his successors and did ordain make constitute and declare the same to be the Diocese of the Bishop of Tasmania And whereas Ifer Majesty Queen Victoria did by certain other letters patent under the Great Seal of the said United Kingdom bearing date the twenty-fifth day of June one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven in which it was recited that it had been found expedient that the extent of the said Diocese of Australia should be still further reduced and that the same should be divided into four several and distinct Dioceses to be styled "The Bishoprick of Sydney" "The Bishoprick of Newcastle" "The Bishoprick of Adelaide" and "The Bishoprick of Melbourne" revoke and determine the said letters patent made and passed in the sixth year of the reign of His said late Majesty King William the Fourth to all intents and purposes save and except as to all acts matters or things which might have been done under the authority of the same and. ILer said Majesty did by the said letters patent erect found ordain and constitute all those parts or portions of the Colony of New South Wales known or called by the names of the counties of Wellington Roxburgh Cook Cumberland Camden Westmoreland Georgiana. Bathurst King Murray Argyle and Auckland with the territory to the west bounded by the parallel of latitude thirty-two degrees thirty minutes and the one hundred and forty-first degree of east longitude together with all those parts of the continent of Australia not comprised within the limits of any other Sec or Diocese to he a Bishop's See and Diocese and to be called from henceforth the Bishoprick of Sydney And whereas Her said Majesty did by certain other letters patent: under the Great Seal of the said United Kingdom bearing date the said twenty-fifth day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven erect found ordain 'and constitute all those parts or portions of the said Colony of New South Wales known or called by, the names of the counties of Northumberland WTunter Durham Brisbane Phillip Bligh Gloucester Macquaric Stanley with the territory to the north and west. hounded by the twenty-first parallel of latitude and the one hundred and forty-lirst degree of east longitude to be a Bishop's See and Diocese and to be called from henceforth "''he Bishoprick of Neweastle'"? And whereas before the division of the said Diocese of Australia various lands situated within the respective Dioceses of Sydney and Newcastle as so constituted were devised granted conveyed or otherwise assured to the said Bishop of Australia either solely or jointly with other persons for religious and educational and other purposes within the said Diocese And whereas doubts exist as to the vesting of said lands And whereas it is expedient to remove such doubts and to vest the said lands in the Bishop of the Diocese in which the same are situated Be it therefore 3Y enacted