Yass Roman Catholic Church Land Sale Act 1887 51 Vic (NSW)

1887. dl' VIC.

Yass Roman Catholic Church Land Sale.

An Act to enable the Right Reverend William ,,

Lanigan, the Reverend Patrick Dunne, and Morgan O'Connor, trustees of certain allotments in the town of Yass, granted to Ifenry O'Brien and others, as trustees of the Roman Catholic Chureh at Yass, to sell the said lands, and to provide for the application of the proceeds thereof. [21st December, 1887. |

Yass Roman THOLLG CHURCH Laxp SALE.

ITEREAS by two several deeds of grant, bearing date respectively Preamble.

the thirty: -first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, under the hand' of His Excellency Sir George Gipps, then Governor of the territory of New South Wales, and under the seal thereof, ler Majesty Queen Victoria did, for the respective considera- tions in the said deeds "of evant mentioned, grant unto Henry O' Brien, Cornclius O'Brien, and William Hampden Dutton, their heirs and assigns, allotments numbers six and seven respectively of number seventcen of the town of Yass, more particularly described in the Schedule hereto, to hold unto the said llenry O'Brien, Cornelius O'Brien, and William Iampden Dutton, as trustees of the Roman Catholic Church at Yass, their heirs and assigns forever. And whereas, the said William Hampden Dutton, diced on the twenty-first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine; and the said IIenry O' Brien, died on the twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand cight hundred and sixty-six; and the said Cornelius O'Brien, died on the fourth day of July, one thousand cight hundred and sixty-nine. And whereas, under and by virtue of an indenture bearing date the twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and made between Rebecca O'Brien and the Venerable Frederick Arthur Cecil Lillingston, the executrix and executor respec- tively of the last will and testament of the said Cornelius O' Brien, of the one part, and the Right Reverend William Lanigan, Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Goulburn, the Reverend Patrick Dunne, and Morgan O'Connor, of the other part, the said Right Reverend William Lanigan, Reverend Patrick Dunne, and Morgan O'Connor have been appointed and are now the trustees in respect of the lands comprised in the said two Crown grants, in the place of the said Henry O'Brien, Cornelius O'Brien, and William Hampden Dutton, respectively, deceased, and the said allotments of land have accordingly become and are now vested in the said Right Reverend William Lanigan, Xeverend Patrick Dunne, and Morgan O'Connor, as such trustees as aforesaid. And whereas, the said lands are not required as a site for a Roman Catholie Church, nor for the enlargement of the present site of the Roman Catholic Church in the town of Yass; and whereas the said Right Reverend William Lanigan, Reverend Patrick Dunne, and Morgan O'Connor, as such trustecs as aforesaid, are desirous of selling the said lands described in the Schedule hereto, and of applying the procecds of such sale in or towards the erection, maintenance, and support of a Roman Catholic School or Schools and Teacher's residence or residences in the town of Yass, or in or towards the purchase for that purpose of a building or buildings in the said town. Be it there- fore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice