Jewish Synagogue and Schools Act of 1872 36 Vic (NSW)

Jewisasracors An Act to make provision for the sale and

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— disposition and for the application of the proceeds of certain Lands and Heredita- ments in the City of Sydney held upon Trusts for a Jewish Synagogue and School and for the appointment of Trustees for such purposes and to declare the Trusts of Lands and Premises appropriated for a

Jewish Synagogue and School. [12th August, 1872. |

Preamble. HEREAS by a deed of grant bearing date the seventh day of May one thousand cight hundred and fifty under the hand of

His Excellency Sir Charles Augustus Fitz Roy Knight Captain General

and Governor-in-Chief of the Colony of New South Wales and the seal

of the said Colony Her Majesty Queen Victoria did thereby grant unto

Isaac Levey Moses Joseph Lawrence Spyer and Elias Moses their

heirs and assigns All that piece or parcel of land mentioned and

described in Schedule A hereunder upon trust for the erection thereon

of a Schoolhouse for the use of the members of the Jewish faith and

for

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Jewish Synagogue and Schools.

for no other purposes whatsoever And whereas by an indenture bearing date the first day of December one thousand eight hundred and forty-two made between Moses Joseph of the first part Lewis Barnett a trustee for the purpose thereinafter mentioned of the second part and the said Moses Joseph Isaac Simmons John Isaacs Israel Solomon and Abraham Elias thereinafter designated trustees of the third part reciting that the said Isaac Simmons John Isaacs Israel Solomon and Abraham Elias for and on behalf of themselves and of all other the members of the Jewish persuasion in the Colony aforesaid with and out of certain moneys placed in their hands for that purpose by various members of the said Jewish persuasion had contracted with the said Moses Joseph for the purchase of the land thereinafter described or appointed and released The said Moses Joseph thereby appointed and also granted bargained sold released and confirmed all those several and respective parcels of land and hereditaments men- tioned and described in Schedule B hereunder unto the said Lewis Barnett and his heirs to the use of the said Trustees their heirs and assigns for evcr but nevertheless upon the trusts and for the ends intents and purposes and with under and subject to the powers provi- sions declarations and agreements thereinafter expressed and declared concerning the same that is to say upon trust as a site for the erection of a building or Synagogue thereon for the performance of public worship according to the ritual of the Jewish persuasion and for such other purposes matters and things connected therewith as are usual and customary and when and so soon as such building and other crec- tions appurtenant thereto should have been made thereon then in trust for themsclves the said 'Trustees and all other the members of the Jewish persuasion in the Colony of New South Wales aforesaid as a Synagogue for the performance of public worship according to the rites of the Jewish persuasion for ever And whereas by a deed of grant bearing date the thirticth day of March one thousand cight hundred and | forty under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Gipps Knight Captain General and Governor-in-Chief of the Colony. of New South Wales and the seal of the said Colony Ier Majesty Queen Victoria did thereby grant unto Simon Lear of Macquaric-street Sydney his heirs and assigns all that parecl of land therein mentioned and described hereunder. And whereas by an indenture bearing date the seventcenth day of May one thousand cight hundred and forty- two made between the said Simon Lear of the one part and Jean Malcolm of the other part the parcel of land comprised in the lastly hereinbefore recited deed of grant with the appurtenances were granted and released unto and to the use of the said Jean Malcolm her heirs and assigns subject to a proviso for redemption contained in the said reciting indenture upon payment on the seventeenth day of May one thousand cight hundred and forty-three of the sum of three hundred