Newcastle Episcopal Residence Leasing Act of 1900 (NSW)

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NEWCASTLE Eriscopau RESIDENCE

Leasina,

Preamble.

Act, 1900.

Newcastle Episcopal Residence Leasing.

An Act to enable the trustees of Church property for the diocese of Newcastle to lease certain lands granted by the Crown as a site for an episcopal residence for the Bishop of New- castle, and to provide for the application of the income thereof. [5th December, 1900. ]

J HEREAS by a deed of grant from the Crown bearing date the

/ twenty-second day of October, one thousand eight-hundred and fifty-five. the lands described in the Schedule hereto were granted unto the Lord Bishop of Newcastle and his successors upon trust for the erection thereon of an episcopal residence for the Lord Bishop of New- eastle and his successors, Bishops of Newcastle, and of such buildings (if any) for educational purposes as he or they might think fit to cause to be erected thereon, and on condition that the said Lord Bishop of Newcastle and his successors should not use the said land or any part 'hereof for any other purpose than in accordance with the said trusts: And whereas there have been erected on portion of the said lands build- ings which are used as a school for boys and residence for masters and . boys, and are called the Newcastle Grammar School and also a building which is called the Pro-Cathedral, and is being used during the erection and completion of the Newcastle Cathedral for Divine service according to the rites of the Church of England, but may, after the erection and completion of the Newcastle Cathedral, be used for educational pur- poses in religious matters, and also a wooden building which is used as a Sunday-school, but the remaining portion of the said lands is not built upon: And whereas the said Lord Bishop of Neweastle and his suc- eessors, Bishops of Newcastle, have used as an episcopal residence certain lands and buildings purchased at Morpeth in the diocese of Newcastle: And whereas by reason of the class of buildings which have been erected in the neighbourhood of the said lands it has become unde- sirable to use the same as a site for an episcopal residence and a more suitable site for that purpose can be obtained elsewhere in the city of Newcastle: And whereas in pursuance of the provisions of the Church of England Trust Property Incorporation Act, 1881, certain trustees have been duly appointed and constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of the Trustees of Church Property for the diocese of Newcastle: And whereas the said lands are suitable for residential building purposes and the value thereof would be considerably increased by the granting of leases for terms of years and an income would be derived therefrom: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most