The Saint Philip's Sydney Parsonage Act of 1858 22 Vic (NSW)

An Act to authorize the Sale Mortgage or Exchange of the Parsonage in connection with the Parish of St. Philip in Sydney and the providing of another Parsonage and for other purposes of the said Parish. [11th November, 1858. }

HEREAS by a decd of grant dated the twenty-seventh day of October one thousand cight hundred and fifty -seven the Tand

and hereditaments described in the Schedule annexed to this Act were granted to the Bishop of Sydney and his successors Bishops of Sydney for ever upon trust for the appropriation thereof as the site of a dwelling-house garden and other appurtenances for the clergyman duly appointed to officiate in the Church of the United Chureh of England and Ireland erected at Sydney and known as Saint Philip's And whereas the said Jand and hereditaments are not situate within the parish of Saint Philip's and the house thereon is the only present residence for the clergyman of the said parish And whereas a new church has recently been erected within and for the said parish but. there are not sufficient funds for the entire completion thereof And whereas John Campbell George Kilgour Ingelow and John Alexander Mathews all of Sydney aforesaid have been duly nominated and appointed trustces of the said new church by virtue and subject to the provisions of the Act of Council eighth William Fourth number five And whereas the population of the said parish is such as to require the erection of another church therein And whereas it is expedient to sell or exchange the said land and hereditaments or to raise money thereon by mortgage and out of the proceeds or by application of the hereditaments taken in exchange to provide a parsonage within the said parish and to apply any surplus of such proceeds towards the erection of an additional church within and for the said parish and towards other objects for the benefit of the said parish And whereas it is expedient that there should be the same trustees for the church and parsonage of the said parish Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent