West Maitland Church Land Act 1861 24 Vic (NSW)

West MaITLaNp Cuurce Lann.

Preamble.

Grant 19 September Ids42.

8 Wm. 4 No. 5.

7 Wm. 4 No. 3.

24° VIC. 1861. West Maitland Church Land.

ANNO VICESIMO QUARTO

VICTORIA REGIN &.

An Act to enable the Lord Bishop of Newcastle as Trustee of certain Land situated in the Town of West Maitland to sell the said Land and to provide for the appropriation of the Proceeds of such Sale. [7th May, 1861.]

ITEREAS by a deed of grant bearing date the nineteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and forty-two Her Majesty Qucen Victoria did grant unto the Right Reverend William Grant Broughton Doctor of Divinity Bishop of Australia for the time being George Hobler and Ienry Incledon Pilcher being respectively Trustees nominated and appointed under and by virtue of an Act of the Governor and Legislative Council of New South Wales made and passed in the eighth year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth intituled "An Act to regulate the Temporal Affairs of " Churches and Chapels of the United Church of England and Ireland "in New South Wales" and to their heirs and assigns subject to the trusts conditions reservations and provisoes therein contained All that piece or parcel of land in the Colony of New South Wales con- taining by admeasurement two acres be the same more or less situated in the county of Northumberland and parish of Maitland town of West Maitland commencing at the eastern extreme of the north boundary line of H. C. Sempill's allotment of two acres and twenty perches and bounded on the south by that boundary line bearing west six chains and thirty-four links on the south-west by a line bearing north thirty-nine degrees west four chains and twenty links on the north by an east line of seven chains and twenty-five links to Hunter's River and on the east by Hunter's River downwards to the eastern extreme of the north boundary line of H. C. Scmpill's allotment aforesaid with all the rights and appurtenances whatsoever thereto belonging to hold unto the said Bishop of Australia or the Bishop of Australia for the time being George Hobler and Henry Incledon Pilcher and to their heirs and assigns for ever yielding and paying therefor yearly the quit rent or sum of one farthing for ever if demanded Upon trust for the erection thereon of a church of the United Church of England and Ireland as by law established and also for the site of a school-house in connection with the said church and also for a parsonage for the clergyman duly liccnsed for the said church in conformity with the provisions of the said Act and of a certain other Act of the Governor and Legislative Council of New South Wales aforesaid made and passed in the seventh year of the reign of His said late Majesty King William the Fourth intituled " An Act to promote the building of Churches and Chapels and to pro- " vide for the maintenance of Ministers of Religion in New South Wales" so far as the same might apply to the trusts of the now reciting grant and for no other purpose whatsoever And whereas Her Majesty did by