Bathurst Hospital Act 1876 39 Vic (NSW)

39° VIC. 1876.

Bathurst Hospital.

BaravestHowrma Ary Act to authorize the sale of the site of the

Preamble.

Trustees authorized to sall.

Apphcation of pro- ceeds of sale.

Site to be approved by Governor.

Bathurst Hospital and to provide for the expenditure of the money received there- from in the erection of suitable buildings

for a like purpose on a new site. [2nd May, 1876.]

HEREAS Richard Young Cousins J.P. Edward Gell J.P. Richard Machattie M.D. Edmund Webb J.P. (formerly M.P.) and Henry Rotton J.P. have been duly appointed and now are the Trustees of the land at Bathurst dedicated as a site for an hospital which said land is more particularly described in the Schedule hereto And whereas the puildings erected on the said land are inadequate and unfit for the requirements of the district and the site has become unsuitable for the purposes of a public hospital And whereas it is expedient that pro- vision should be made upon the acquisition ofa better site for the erection thereon of suitable buildings for suck hospital and that the Trustees for the time being of the said land should be empowered to sell and dispose of the same in order to raise a sum of money to be expended in defraying part of the cost of erecting on such better site suitable build- ings for the said hospital 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 :-—

1. It shall be lawful for the Trustees for the time being of the said Bathurst Hospital to sell and dispose of the said parcel of land described in the Schedule hereto by public auction or private contract and either in one lot or in several lots as they shall deem expedient for such price or prices as can be reasonably had or obtained for the same and to convey and assure the same or any portion or portions thereof when sold to the purchaser or purchasers thereof in fee simple freed and discharged from all trusts affecting the said land And the receipt in writing of the said Trustees for the purchase moneys arising from such sale or sales shall be a sufficient discharge to any and every purchaser of the said land or portions thereof and exonerate such purchaser from seeing to the application of the said moneys and from all liability in respect of the misapplication or non-application thereof.