All Saints Parsonage Act of 1875 38 Vic (NSW)

At Saints Parsonage,

Preamble.

38° VIC. 1875.

All Saints Parsonage.

An Act to enable the Lord Bishop of New- castle to sell certain Land at Singleton and to apply the proceeds of the sale thereof in the erection of a Parsonage for the Officiating Clergyman of All Saints Church Singleton. [20th May, 1875.]

Wee by Indentures of lease and relvase bearing date on or

about the fourteenth and fifteenth days of January one thou- sand eight hundred and forty-two the latter made between Benjamin Singleton of Patrick's Plains in the Colony of New South Wales gentleman and Mary Singleton his wife of the cne part and the Bishop of Australia of the other part the parcel of land and hereditaments specified in the Schedule hereunder written were conveyed and assured unto and to the use of the said Bishop of Austzalia and his successors upon trust for the erection of a church or chapel for the purpose of Divine Worship according to the rites of the United Church of England and Ireland as it is now by law established Aad also for the erection of a residence for a clergyman in Holy Orders of the said United Church of England and Ireland and for a buricl-ground according to the use of the said United Church And also fora glebe for the use of such clergyman as the said Bishop of Australia for the time being should appoint or for all or any of the said objects as the said Bishop of Australia should from time to time determing and upon trust for all and every or any other of the purposes provided for in and by the Act of the Governor of New South Wales aforesaid with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof made and passed in the eighth year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth intituled "dn Act to regulate the temporal affairs of Churches and Chapels of the United Church of England and Ireland in New Sovth Wales" and under and subject to the enactments clauses and provisions thereof And whereas the land described in the said indentures and in the Schedule to this Act is now vested in the Lord Bishop of Newcastle under and in pursuance of a certain Act made and passed on the twenty-seventh day of August one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight intituled "An Act to remove doubts respecting the vesting of certain Lands situated within the Dioceses of Sydney and Newcastle respectively "which were formerly vested in the Bishop of Avstralia'" And whereas a dwelling-house has pursuant to the trusts contained in the said indenture been erected on a portion of the said land and is now the residence of the clergyman duly appointed by the said Lord Bishop of Newcastle as the officiating clergyman or minister of the Church of All Saints in the town of Singleton hereinaiter mentioned but no portion of the said parcel of land has been usei or is required for the erection of a church or chapel or set apart or required as a burial- ground or a glebe or otherwise howsoever pursuant to the trusts of the said indenture And whereas it has been considered expedient to erect a more commodious parsonage or dwelling-house in a more suitable locality in the town of Singleton aforesaid And whereas it has been considered expedient to sell the said parcel of land and to apply the proceeds arising therefrom in and towards the erection of such parsonage or dwelling-house with the necessary appurtenances thereunto for the use of such clergyman or mirister as aforesaid Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and