Saint John's Church Leasing Act of 1884 48 Vic (NSW)

Saint Jomy's Cuvrcn Leasina,

Preamble.

48° VIC. 1884.

Saint John's Church Leasing.

An Act to enable the Trustees of a certain parcel of land situate in Market Church and Short Streets in the town of Mudgee granted upon trust for the erection thereon of a Church of the United Church of England and Ireland and ofa Schoolhouse and Parsonage in connection therewith to lease certain portions of such land and to apply the rents and profits arising there- from. [3lst¢ October, 1884. |

TWEREAS by a deed of grant bearing date the ninetcenth day of October A.D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-three Her Majesty Queen Victoria did grant unto the Right Reverend William Grant Broughton Bishop of Australia George Cox and Nelson Summons Lawson Trustces appointed under and by virtue of the Act eight William the Fourth number five intituled "An Act to regulate the temporal affairs of Churches and Chapels of the United Church of England and Ireland in New South Wales" and to their heirs and assigns all that piece or parcel of land in the territory of New South Wales containing by admeasurement two acres and two roods be the same more or less situate in the county of Wellington parish and village of Mudgee commencing at the angle formed by Short-street with the north-western extremity of Church-street and bounded on the north by a line west five chains in Short-street on the west by a line south five chains to Market-strect on the south by a line east five chains to the corner of Market-street and Church-street and on the east by a line north five chains in Church-street to the point of commencement to hold the same unto the said Bishop of Australia George Cox and Nelson Summons Lawson their heirs and assigns for ever upon trust for the erection thereon of a Church of the United Church of England and Ireland as by law established and also for the site of a schoolhouse in connection with the said Church and also for a parsonage for the clergyman duly licensed for the said Church And whereas the Church of Saint John at Mudgee and also a schoolhouse in connection with such Church and a parsonage for the clergyman duly licensed for the said Church were erected upon certain portions of the land comprised in the said recited grant And whereas the said Right Reverend William Grant Broughton George Cox and Nelson Summons Lawson are all long since dead and the Honorable George Henry Cox and Robert Hoddle Driberg White are now the Trustees of the said parcel of land and the same is now vested in them upon the trusts and toand for the ends intents and purposes expressed and declared of and concerning the same in and by the hereinbefore recited grant And whereas the portion of land firstly described in the Schedule hereto (being part of the land comprised in the said recited grant) was formerly used and occupied for the purposes of a school in connection with the said Church and playground and teachev's residence in connection therewith but the said school has been for some time past closed and the said land is not now required for any of the purposes named in the said grant and it is expedicnt that the said Trustecs thereof should have power to lease the same And whereas a parsonage was crected upon the parcel of land secondly described in the Schedule hereto (being other portion of