Serisier's Estate Act of 1884 48 Vic (NSW)

48° VIC. | 1884.

Serisier Ss Estate.

seuss Estat. AT) Act to authorize the Mortgage and Leas-

Preamble.

ing of certain Lands and "Hereditaments devised by the Will of Jean Emile Serisier deceased and for other purposes. [21st

October, 1884. |

JILEREAS Jean Emile Serisier formerly of Dubbo but late of Sydney in the Colony of New South Wales general storekeeper deceased was at the time of his death hereinafter mentioned seized and possessed for an estate of inheritance in fee simple of the lands and hereditaments in the First Schedule tothis Act mentioned and deseribed free from incumbrances subject as to the last two parcels thereof to the payment to the Government of fifteen shillings per acre and of the lands and hereditaments in the Second Schedule to this Act mentioned and described subject to a mortgage from the said Jean Emile Scrisier to the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney which said mortgage has since the death of the said Jean Emile Serisier been paid released and dischar eed and whereas the said Jean Emile Serisier duly made and published his last. will and testament dated the fourth day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine and thereby gave devised and bequeathed to his 'Trustees thereinafter named the whole of his rea] and personal estate upon trust to pay to his wife Margaret Bertaux then Margaret Serisicry one-quarter of the rents and profits of his real and personai estate for her life-time should she remain his widow but in the event of his said wife contracting marriage within cightcen months of his decease then he directed his Trustees to pay to his said wife only one-sixth of the rents and profits of his said estate for her life free from the debts control or engage- ments of any husband she may intermarry and he directed his said Trustees to invest all his personal estate and also the benefits of his business and also the rents and profits of his real estate in either real Bank or Government securities and pay so much as they might think proper to his said wife (to be decided by majority of votes in writing) for the education and maintenance of his children until the youngest child should attain the age of twenty-one years and on the youngest of his said children attaining the age of twenty-one years 'then he directed the whole of his estate to be divided between his wife if living and the whole of his children or their heirs share and share alike the heirs of any of his said children to be entitled to their parents' share only And he thereby authorized and directed that his wife should have power and authority if she should think proper during her widowhood to sell dispose and convey any part or portion of any real and personal estate And that she and his said Trustees should have power to sign and convey the same to any purchaser and give receipts and discharges for the same And he appointed his said wife the said Margaret Bertaux then Margaret Serisicr guardian of his said children and sole executrix of that his will and his said wife Narcisse Muller of Dubbo in the Colony atoresaid publican and James Holmes also of Dubbo bank manager 'Trustees of that his will And whereas the said Jean Emile Serisicr diced on the tenth day of February one thousand eight hundred and cighty without having in any way revoked or altered his said will and leaving him surviving the said Margaret Bertaux then Margaret Serisier his widow and five children namely Jean De Bouillion Emile Scrisier Hippolyte Paulin Macquaric Serisicr