Randwick Roman Catholic Church Land Sale Act 1886 50 Vic (NSW)

Raypwick Romay

Catrnonic Cutren

Lanp Sane.

Preamble.

Trustees authcrized to sell.

Application of proceeds,

30° VIC. 1886.

Randwick Ronan Catholic Church Land Sale.

An Act to enable the Most Reverend Patrick Francis Moran the Reverend James Peter Hanrahan and Aston James Watkins as Trustees of certain lands situated at Randwick to sell the said land and to provide for the appropriation of the pro- ceeds thereof. [1st July, 1886. ]

AY TILEREAS by two grants from the Crown under the hand and

seal of Sir Augustus William Frederick Spencer Loftus Governor-in-Chief of the Colony of New South Wales both bearing datc the first day of March one thousand eight hundred and cighty- one the lands deseribed in the Schedule hereto were granted unto the Most Reverend Roger Bede Vaughan the said James Peter Hanrahan and the Reverend Martin Augustine Holohan upon trust as sites for a Roman Catholic Church and clergyman's residence And whereas by an order of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in Equity the said lands were vested in the said Patrick Francis Moran James Peter Hanrahan and Aston James Watkins upon the trusts declared in and by the said deeds of grant or such of the same as are now subsisting and capable of taking effect And whereas it is expedient that the said lands should be sold and that the proceeds to arise from such sale should be applied in or towards the erection of a Roman Catholic Church and clergyman's residence upon another and more cligible site at Randwick aforesaid and in payment for such site Be it therefore enacted by the Gueen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows :—

1. After the passing of this Act it shall be lawful for the said Patrick Francis Moran James Peter Hanrahan and Aston James Watkins bercinafter styled Trustees their heirs and assigns or other the Trustees for the time heing of the said grants of the first day of March one thousand cight hundred and cighty-one to scl] and abso- utely dispose of the said land by public auction or private contract and cither in one lot or several lots as they shall deem most expedient for such price or prices as can be had or obtained for the same and when sold to convey the same or any part or parts thereof to the purchaser or purchasers in fee-simple 'tyeed and dischar eed from the said trusts affecting the same and the receipt in writing of the said Trustees their heirs or assigns or of the 'Trustees or Trustee for the time being of the said grants shall absolutely discharge the purchaser or purchasers of the said land or any part or parts thercof from the purchase money payable by him or them from seeing to the application of the said purchase money and from all liability as to the mis-appli- cation or non-application thereof.