MramwaCaoner Ay Act to enable the Right Reverend James AND PRESBYTERY Laxp Saxe, Murray the Reverend "Patrick Purcell Ryan and Charles Joseph Gallagher Trustees of certain lands situate in the Village of Merriwa to sell the said Land and to pro- vide for the appropriation of the proceeds . thereof. [20th May, 1880.] Preamie. Wy MaREAS by a grant from the Crown bearing date the fourth day of December i in the year of onr Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine the land specified in the First Schedule hereto was granted unto the said R ight Reverend James Murray the Reverend Patrick Purcell Ryan and Charles Joseph Gallagher their heirs and assigns upon trust for the crection thereon of a Roman Catholic Church And whereas by a grant from the Crown bearing date fourth December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred 1880. 43° VIC. Merriwa Church and Presbytery Land Sale. hundred and seventy-nine the land specified in the Second Schedule hereto was granted unto the Right Reverend James Murray the Reverend Patrick Purcell Ryan and Charles Joseph Gallagher their heirs and assigns upon trust for the appropriation thereof as the site of a dwelling-house garden and other appurtenances for the clergyman duly appointed to officiate in the Roman Catholic Church Merriwa And whereas it has been found that the said sites for a Church and presbytery are unsuitable for the purposes for which they were res- pectively granted and it is expedient that the said land should be sold and that the proceeds to arise from such sale should be applied in or towards the purchase of another picce of land in the said village of Merriwa in a more suitable position as a site for a Roman Catholic Church and Presbytery and the erection of such church and presbytery thereon and for other purposes hereinafter mentioned 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 he same as follows :— 1. After the passing of this Act it shall be lawful for the saic James Murray Patrick Purecll Ryan and Charles Joseph Gallagher (hereinafter styled Trustees) their heirs or assigns or other the 'lrustces for the time being of the said grants bearing date respectively the fourth December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundrec and seventy-nine to scll and dispose of the said land specified in the Schedules hereto by public auction or private contract and cither in one lot or in several lots as they shall deem most expedient for such price or prices as can be had. or obtained for the same and when sol to convey the same or any part or parts thereof to the purchaser or purchasers in fee simple freed and discharged from the said trusts affecting the same aad the receipt in writing of the said Trustees their heirs or assigns shall absolutely discharge the purchaser or purchasers of the said land or any part or parts thereof from the purchase money payable by him or them respectively and shall exonerate him or them from seeing to the application of the said purchase money and from all liability as to the misapplication or nonapplication thereof. 2. The said Trustees their heirs or assigns shall stand possessed of all moneys arising from any and every such sale or sales as aforesaid upon trust to apply the proceeds of such sale in or toward the purchase of another picee or pieces of land in the said village of Merriwa as a site or sites for the erection of a Roman Catholic Church and Preshy- tery thereon and to apply the remainder of the said moneys if any which shall not be required for the purposes aforesaid in or towards the erection of a Roman Catholic Church and Presbytery upon the land to be purchased as aforesaid and the receipts of any person or persons to whom any moneys shall be paid under the provisions of this Act shall bo valid and complete discharges to the Trustees their heirs and assigns for such moncys. FIRST Power to sell. Disposal of proceeds. i 43° VIC. 1880. Merriwa Church and Presbytery Land Sale. FIRST SCHEDULE. Aut that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement one acre be the same more or Jess situated in the county of Brisbane and parish of Merriwa village of Merriwa allotments thirteen and fourteen of section three Commencing at the south-western corner of the section and bounded thence on the west by Vennacher-street northerly five chains on the north by the southern boundary-line of allotment twelve easterly at right angles to Vennacher-strect two chains on the east by the western boundary-line of allotment fiftcen appropriated for a Roman Catholic Presbytery southerly parallel with Vennacher-street five chains to Bettington-street and on the south by that street westerly two chains to the point of commencement. SECOND SCHEDULE. Aut that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement two roods be the same more or less situated in the county of Brisbane and parish of Merriwa village of Merriwa allotment fifteen of section three Commencing on the northern side of Bettington-street at the south-western corner of allotment sixteen and bounded thence on the south by that strect westerly one chain on the west by the eastern boundary- lines of allotments fourteen and thirteen appropriated for a Roman Catholie Church in all northerly at right angles to Bettington-strect five chains on ihe north by the southern boundary-line of allotment ten easterly parallel with Bettington-street one chain and on the east by the western boundary-line of allotment sixteen aforesaid southerly at right angles to Bettington-street five chains to the point of commencement.