Moffitt's Estate Leasing Enabling Act of 1884 47 Vic (NSW)

47° VIC.

Moffiti's Estate Leasing Enabling.

24: 1884.

Morriti's Estate Leasina Enapina,

An Act to enable John Williams or other the Trustee or Trustees for the time being of the Will of William Moffitt deceased to lease certain portions of the real estate of the said William Motfitt deceased. [2nd May, 1884]

IEREAS William Moflitt late of Sydney in the Colony of New

South Wales bookseller being at the time of his death seized and possessed of among other lands the lands and hereditaments described in the Schedule hereto duly made and executed his last will and testament dated the fifth day of June one thousand cight hundred and seventy- three and thereby appointed John Williams of Sydney aforesaid Crown Solicitor sole devisee in trust of all his real estate wpon trust as to the lands and hereditaments described in the Schedule hereto for the testator's eldest daughter Elizabeth Preston Marks wife of the Honorable John Marks Esquire of Darling Point near Sydney aforesaid for her sole and separate use during her lifetime and from and after her death upon the trusts in the said will declared concerning the same And whereas the said William Moffitt dicd on the thirty-first day of July one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four without having altered or revoked his last will and testament leavi ing the said Elizabeth Preston Marks him surviving And whereas the said will was on the twenty- seventh day of August one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four proved in the Supreme Court of New South Wales by the said John Williams and the said Elizabeth Preston Marks the executor and executrix respectively named therein And whereas the said last will and testament does not contain any power to lease or demise the said lands and hereditaments or to expend money in the erection of buildings upon the said land and the buildings now thereon are dilapidated and of little value And whereas the said lands and hereditaments can now be let on a building lease for a ground rent exceeding the rents and profits at present received and upon 'favourable conditions asto building and other- wise And it is desirable that the said John Williams or other the trustee or trustees for the time being of the said will should be empowcred to grant building leases ora lease of the said lands and hereditaments or of any portion thereof for any period not exceeding thirty years the rents