Saint James' Parsonage Act 1912 (NSW)

Act, 1912.

Saint James' Parsonage.

An Act to consolidate and amend the Saint | sasr Jans

PARSONAGE,

James' Parsonage Land Leasing Act, and —

the Saint James' Parsonage Lands Amending Act, 1909. [8rd December, 1912. ]

ITEREAS by a deed of grant dated the fourteenth day of June, Preamble.

one thousand cight hundred and forty-five, certain lands were granted to trustees upon trust for the appropriation thereof as a dwelling-house for the clergyman duly appointed to officiate in the Church of Saint James in the city of Sydney: And whereas a dwelling-house was afterwards erected on the said lands in pursuance of the said trust: And whereas by an Act of Parliament passed in the fifty-first year of the reign of Iler Majesty Queen' Victoria, entitled the Saint James' Parsonage Land Leasing Act, the trustees for the time being of the said lands which are fully described in the said Act were authorised to grant leases of the said Jands as therein mentioned, and to apply the rents and profits arising from any such leases in and towards the maintenance, repair, and improvement of the then existing parsonage in the parish of Saint James, in the city of Sydney, and in such manner as the trustees for the time being might deem advisable, and in payment of the rent or purchase money of a dwelling-house for the clergyman for the time being licensed to officiate in the said Church of Saint James upon some other site, and in the enlargement, maintenance, repair, and improvement of the said church: And whereas in pursuance of the said Act the said lands were let on building lease, and the parsonage or dwelling-house then existing on the said lands was demolished: And whereas the trustees for the time being of the said lands expended portion of the said rents and profits arising from the said lands (hereinafter called "the old parsonage site") upon the maintenance, repair, and improvement of the said church, and also in paying the rent of a dwelling-house upon another site for the cler eyman for the time being licensed to officiate in the said church and accumulated the unexpended balance of the said rents and profits from time to time: And whereas it became expedient that a new site should be acquired and a suitable parsonage should be erected thereon for the clergyman licensed as aforesaid, but the accumulations of the said rents and profits were insufficient for that purpose: And whereas power was given to the trustees for the time being of the said lands, by the Saint James' Parsonage Lands Amending Act, 1909, to borrow a sum not exceeding four thousand pounds upon mortgage for the purpose of purchasing in 'whole or in part a new site for a parsonage within the said parish and for building and completing on such site a parsonage jn all respects suitable as a residence for the