Rogers's Estate Act of 1881 45 Vic (NSW)

45° VIC. 1881.

Rogers's Estate.

Ross'sEte, Ano Act to enable and authorize Martha

Proamble,

Rogers or other the Trustee or Trustees for the time being of the Will of the late George John Rogers to sell and lease the lands hereditaments and premises which are subject to the trusts of the said Will and to make provision for the investment of the proceeds of the sale thereof and for other purposes. [6th December, 1881.]

HEREAS George John Rogers late of Sydney in the Colony of

New South Wales Solicitor deceased duly made and executed

his last will and testament dated the fifth day of J anuary one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four and thereby after a certain specific bequest to his son James Dowling Rogers not in any way affecting his real estate gave all the remainder of his personal pr 'operty and also his real pro- perty over which he might have a disposing power unto his wife the said Martha Rogers for her life trusting to her discretion in the manage- ment thereof so that fom the interest and proceeds she would maintain and educate herself and his children then already born or thereafter to be born of her according to their station with liberty for her if she should think proper for the advancement in life or upon the marriage of any such children to anticipate and pay any part of the portion of the property to which any such child might become entitled under his will and by his said will the said testator directed that after the decease of his said wife the whole of his property real and personal should be divided amongst his said children by the said Martha Rogers share and share alike with benefit of survivorship each child's share to vest in such child as and when he or she should attain the age of twenty- one or on the day of marriage with the consent of mother or guardian a deduction being made from those whose portions had been already anticipated as aforesaid and he thereby appointed his said wife the said Martha Rogers to be executrix of his will and guardian of his children during minority And whereas the said George John Rogers duly made and executed a codicil to his said will which codicil is dated the fourteenth day of July one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven whereby he revoked the said bequest to his said son James Dowling Rogers but in all other respects confirmed his said will And whereas the said George John Rogers died on or about the sixteenth day of January one thousand cight hundred and sixty-three without having altered or revoked his said will and codicil leaving the said Martha Rogers his widow and seven children of their marriage him surviving And whereas the said will and codicil were duly proved in the Supreme Court of New South Wales on or about the twenty- seventh day of February one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four by the said Martha Rogers And whereas the said Geor ge John Rogers was at the time of his death seiscd of various lands and hereditaments in the Colony of New South Walcs for an estate in fee simple And whereas an undivided moiety or equal half part of and in the lands and hereditaments mentioned and described in the Schedule to this Act is now vested in the said Martha Rogers in fee simple upon the trusts and for the ends intents and purposes of and declared by the will of