St. Philip's Parsonage Act of 1884 47 Vic (NSW)

Sr. Pniiiy's PARSONAGE,

Preamble.

47° VIC. 1884.

Se. Philip's Par. sonaye.

An Act to enable the Trustees of St. Philip's Church Sydney to icase a certain piece of land situate in the City of Sydney parish of St. Philip and to apply the rents and profits thereof. [21st Febraary, 1884.]

\ HEREAS by an Act passed in this Colony in the twenty-second

year of the Reign of Her present Majesty intituled "dn Act to authorize the sale mortgage or exchange of the Parsonage in con- nection with the said Parish of St. Philip in Sydney and the providing of another Parsonage and for other purposes of the said Parish'? lt was enacted that John Campbell George Kilgour Ingelow and John Alexander Mathews should hold certain land upon trust to sell and dispose of the same and should stand possessed of all moneys arising from every sale upon trust in the first instance to pay and apply the same or so much thereof as should be required for the purpose in the purchase of a proper site for a parsonage within the said parish with or without a house and offices thereon or otherwise as_ thercin mentioned provided that any site so purchased should absolutely vest in the said Trustees as and for the Parsonage of the Church of St. Philip and the residence of the incumbent thereof for the time being upon the trusts and for the purposes declared in and subject to the provisions of the Act hereinafter mentioned in reference to lands appropriated as sites for dwelling-houses for Clergymen of the United Church of England and Ireland And whereas the said John Campbell George Kilgour Ingelow and John Alexander Mathews in exercise of the authority given to them by the hercinbefore in part recited Act sold the said certain land therein described And whereas by an indenture dated the sixth day of October one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine and made between John Croft of the first part James Sutherland Mitchell of the second part and the said John Campbell and John Alexander Mathews thereinafter called the Trustees (the said George Kilgour Ingelow being then dead) of the third part After reciting that the said Trustees in cxercise of the authority given to them by the hereinbefore recited Act had contracted with the said John Croft for the sale to them of the land thercinafter described It was witnessed that for the considerations therein mentioned the said John Croft did grant bargain sell and release all that pareel of land situated in the said City of Sydney parish of St. Philip county of Cumberland and Colony of New South Wales being the whole of allotments seven and eight and part of allotment number nine of section number three of the site of the old Military Barracks com- mencing on the eastern side of Clarence-strect cighty-three feet two inches northerly from Margarct-strect and bounded on the west by said Clarence-street Dearing northerly fifty-four feet five inches on the north by Petty's s Hotel being a line bearing casterly seventy- one fect seven inches on the east by a line bearing southerly forty- eight feet four inches and on the south by a line bearing westerly seventy-one feet six inches to the point of commencement 'Together with all the appurtenances unto and to the use of the said Trustees their heirs and assigns for ever as a site for a Parsonage of the United Church of England and Ireland erected in the parish of St. Philip in the City of Sydney aforesaid and known as St. Philip's Church and as and for the residence of the incumbent of the said Church for the