The Petersham Church Grant Act of 1873 36 Vic (NSW)

PETERsHAM

CuvurcH GRANT,

Preamble.

An Act to enable Christopher Rolleston Thomas Chaplin Breillat Stephen Camp- bell Brown and William Crane or other the Trustees of certain Land and Premises in the parish of Petersham near Newtown to sell the same and to provide for the

application of the proceeds thereof. [25th March, 1873. ]

Win atras by a deed of grant bearing date the twenty-fourth

day of February one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one Her Maj esty Queen Victoria did grant unto Christopher Rolleston Thomas 'Chaplin Breillat Stephen Campbell Brown and William Crane being respectively Trustees nominated and appointed under and by virtue of an Act of the Governor and Legislative Council 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 I¥ales" and to their heirs and assigns subject to the trusts conditions reservations and provisoes thereinafter contained All that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasure- ment two roods and fifteen perches be the same more or less situated in the county of Cumberland and parish of Petersham near Newtown commencing on the north-western side of the Newtown Road at a point where the southern side of Bligh-street meets it and bounded thence on the north by Bligh-street bearing westerly three chains and

eighty-

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Petersham Church Grant.

eighty-six links on the south-west by a line bearing south-casterly three chains nincteen links and half of a link to the Newtown Road and on the south-east by that road bearing north-casterly four chains twenty-nine links and half of a link to the point of commence- ment as per plan in the margin thereof with all the rights and appurtenances whatsoever thereto belonging Upon trust for the erection thereon of a Church of the United Church of England and Ireland as by law established in conformity with the provisions of the said Act and of a certain other Act of the Governor and Legislative Council of the said Colony made and passed in the seventh year of the reign of Ilis said late Majesty King William the Fourth intituled " An Act to promote the Building of Churches and Chapels and to " provide for the maintenance of Ministers of Religion in New South " Wales" so far as the same might apply to the trusts of the said grant and for no other purpose whatsocver And whereas the said piece of land is inconveniently situated for the erection thereon of a Church for the use of the Members of the Church of England who are residents of Newtown aforesaid and its neighbourhood and who as such residents are interested in the erection of the said Church And whereas the said Christopher Rolleston Thomas Chaplin Breillat Stephen Campbell Brown and William Crane together with William Gillett Sedgwick have been selected by the Members of the Church of England resident at Newtown aforesaid and its neighbourhood to be Trustees for the erection on certain other land part of the Camperdown Cemetery of a Church for the use of the Members of the Church of England of the parish of Newtown aforesaid And whereas the said Church is in course of erection And whereas the said Members of the Church of England have applicd to the said Christopher Rolleston Thomas Chaplin Brcillat Stephen Campbell - Brown and William Crane as such Trustees of the said piece of land as hereinbefore mentioned to sell the said piece of land so vested in them as Trustecs as hereinbefore mentioned and to apply the net proceeds arising from such sale towards the erection and completion of the said Church so in course of erection as aforesaid And whereas the said Christopher Rolleston Thomas Chaplin Breillat Stephen Campbell Brown and William Crane are willing to comply with such last- mentioned request but they cannot do so without the authority of the Legislature Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows :—