Scott's Leasing Act of 1873 37 Vic (NSW)

An Act to authorize and empower William Scott and George Scott to grant Leases

for Mining and 'other purposes of certain Lands devised by the Will of the late William Scott. [10th December, 1873. ]

Scorr's LEasine.

ILEREAS William Scott late of Long Swamp in the Colony of Preamble.

New South Wales farmer deceased being seized of the lands and. hereditaments hereinafter mentioned and described duly made and exceuted his last will and testament, in writing dated the first day of October one thousand cight hundred and sixty-eight and thereby devised unto his son George Scott (among other things) All those three hundred and twenty-nine acres or thereabouts of land described in the first schedule to this Act being the southern portion of six hundred and fifty-eight acres of land situate at the Mulloon in the county of Murray in the said Colony. granted to the said testator by grant dated the twenty-cighth day of May in the year one thousand cight hundred and thirty-nine to be held and enjoyed by him during ihe term of his natural life without impeachment of waste and subject thereto unto and to the children of his said son George Scott, in such shares and proportions and subject to such restrictions reservations and limitations over as his said son George by any decd or deeds or by his last will and testament in writing or any codicil or codicils thereto might direct limit or appoint the same' And in default of such appointment and so far as any such might not extend the testator devised the same lands to and amongst such of the children of his said son George as might be living at the time of his death share and share alike as tenants in common and not as joint tenants to take on their attaining their respective ages of twenty-one years if a son or sons or if a daughter or daughters on attaining that age or marrying which should first happen And the testator also devised unto his son William Scott (among other things) all those six hundred and forty acres of land at the head of the Mulloon aforesaid granted to him