Cooma Church of England Lands Sale Act of 1888 52 Vic (NSW)

1888. 52° VIC.

Cooma Church of England Lands Sale.

An Act to authorize and empower Robert Dawson, the surviving Trustee of certain Church of England lands at Cooma, in the Colony of New South Wales, purchased from the Crown for the Church of En gland, at Cooma aforesaid, to sell the said "lands and to provide for the application of the proceeds thereof. [24th July, 1888. ]

ILEREAS at a sale of Crown lands, held at Cooma aforesaid, on

the seventeenth day of August, one thousand cight hundred

and fifty-cight, John Lambie, the said Robert Dawson, and Francis Smith, as Trustees of Christ Church, Church of England, became purchasers of the land mentioned, deseribed in the First Schedule hereto, to hold unto the said John Lambie, Robert Dawson, and Francis Smith, as Trustees as aforesaid, their heirs and assigns for ever. And whereas by Crown grant, dated the twenty-ninth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, the lands and heredita- ments mentioned and deseribed in the Second Schedule hereto, and known as the glebe, were granted unto the said John Lambie, Robert Dawson, and Francis Smith, to hold unto the said John Lambie, Robert Dawson, and Francis Smith, as Trustees as aforesaid, their heirs and assigns for ever. And whereas the said John Lambie died on or about the third day of August, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. And whereas the said Francis Smith died on or about the eighth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty- three. And whereas the lands mentioned and described in the Schedules hereto are useless for church purposes, and it would be expedient to sell the same and to apply the proceeds arising from such sale towards reducing the debt on the present parsonage and for church purposes. Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :— 1. It shall be lawful for the said Robert Dawson, the surviving Trustee of the lands described in the First and Second Schedules hercto, his heirs or assigns, to sell the said lands by public auction, cither in one lot or in "parcels as he may deem most expedient, and for such price or prices as can reasonably be gotten for the same. And upon such sale or sales to convey the said lands or any part or parts thereof to the purchaser or purchasers thereof in fee-simple, freed and discharged from all trusts affecting the same, and the receipt