Diocese of Goulburn Church Land Sale Act of 1905 (NSW)

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An Act to enable the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Goulburn, as trustee of certain parecls of Jand situate in the county of Arevle, held upon certain trusts connected with the Church of England in the Diocese of Goulburn, to sell the said lands, to provide for the appHeation of the proceeds thereof, and for other purposes in connection there- with. [30th Oetober, 1905. |

\ TITER AS, by indenture dated the thirticth June, one thousand Y eight hundred and sixty-five, made between the Tonorable John Campbell and William Robert Campbell of the one part, and the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Goulburn of the other part, after reciting, inter alia, that Ter 7M: yesty Queen Victoria did, by certain Letters Patent under the Gre at Sc 'al of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ivcland, bearing cate the fourteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundre« and sixty-thres, found, ordain, and constitute all those portions of the Colony of New South Wales mentioned in the said Letters Patent to bs a Bishop's See and Diocese, and to be called the Bishopric of Goulburn, and did thereby name and appoint the Right Reverend Mesac Thomas, Doctor of Divinity, to be the first Bishop thereof, if was witnessed that, in pursuance of a promise and agresment more particularly recited in the said deed, the said John Campbell and William Robert Campbell, in' exercise and exeeution of every power whatscever in anywise enabling them in this behalf, did divect, limit, and appoint and 'also erant and release to the said Lord Bishop of Goulburn and his successors, the several

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'Diocese of Goulburn Char ch Land § Sule. pavecls of land meiutioned and described in the First Schedule herounder written, together with all buildings and appurtances to the suid land respectively belonging or appertaining, to hold the said Jands and hereditaments unto and to the use of the said Bishop of Goulburn aml his successors for the purposes of the endowment of the said Bishop's See and Diocese for ever, And whereas an indenture dated the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, made between « Josey Bull of the one part and the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Goulburn of the other part, after re citing that im pursuance of ao promiss and agreement made by the said Joseph Bull some time previously to convey the lands and he veditaments mentioned in the said decd to the said Bishop of Goulburn and his sttecessors as and by way of an endowment for the See or Diocese of Goulburn, it was witnessed that, in pursuance of the promise and of the agreement aforesaid, the said Joseph Bull did by the said indenture evant, release, and assure unto the said Bishop of Goulburn and his successors the land mentioned in the Second Schedule hereunder written, together with all rights, members, and appurtenances there- unto belonging; to hold the same unto and to the use of the said Lord Bishop of Goulburn and his successors for the purposes of the endow- ment of the said Bishop's See and Diocese for ever: And whereas, by a resolution of the Synod of the Diocese of Goulburn, passed by the unanimous vote of the elerieal and lay members assembled in Synod at Goulburn, on the twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and four, if was resolyed-—" That, in the opinion of the Synod, it is desirable that the Lord Bishop of Goulbuin should take whatever step may be necessary for the purpose of obtaining legal sanction and authority to sell and dispose of the lands known as 'The Taradale Vstate, and also one hundred acres or thereabouts of land at Collector, such lands being at present held by the said Bishop in trust for the See Endowment Fund of the Diocese" : And whereas for divers good causes it is considered expedient that the said lands and hereditaments deseribed in the said several Schedules hereto, should be sold, and {hat the proceeds to arise from the sale of the said land should be applied in or towards the purposes hereinafter appearing : And whereas the said several pareels of land described in the said Schedule are now diy vested in the Right Reverend Christopher Barlow, as the present Lord Bishop of Goulburn, as sole trustee thereof: Be it therefore enacted by the King'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 :—