Saint Andrew's Church and School Property Act 1916 (NSW)

SAINT ANDREWS CHURCH AND SCHOOL PROPERTY ACT,

An Act to enable the Church of England Property George Vv. Trust, Diocese of Sydney, as trustee of certain parcels of land situate in the parish of Saint Lawrence, in the City of Sydney, held with other property upon certain trusts connected with the Church of England in the Diocese of Sydney, to sell the freehold reversion expectant. upon a lease for a period of fifty vears computed from the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, of and in portion of the said land; to provide for the application of the proceeds thereof; and for other purposes in connection with the premises. [Assented to, 19th April, 1916.]

wes the congregation attending in Saint Preamble. Andrew's temporary Cathedral in Sydney, in the State of New South Wales, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, with the consent of the then Bishop of Sydney, raised certain sums of money as sub- scriptions for the purpose of erecting a church to be called the New Church of Saint Andrew: And whereas Yobert Chadwick, George Fox, Alexander Haywood Richardson, George Kenyon, and George Watts were duly elected trustees for carrying out the purposes for which the said moneys were raised: And whereas portion of the said moneys was applied in the purchase of

Saint Andrew's Church and School Property Act.

George V. of a piece of land in Pitt-street, Sydney, aforesaid, now

comprised in certificate of title under the provisions of the Real Property Act, dated the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, registered volume eighty-four, folio one hundred and fifty-six: And whereas subsequently to the purchase of the said piece of land and while the proposed church building was in course of erection the then Bishop of Sydney deemed it expedient to withdraw the consent so given as aforesaid and refused to consecrate the said building as achurch: And whereas, in view of such refusal, the subscribers to the moneys so raised as aforesaid, by resolution at a public meeting duly called by advertise- ment, resolved that the said moneys should he appro- priated for the purpose of erecting schools for the parish of Saint Andrew in connection with the Established Church of England and Ireland: And thereupon the said Alexander Haywood Itichardson, George Kenyon, and George Watts resigned their respective offices as trustees, and Charles Moore, Charles Bown, and Thomas Frederick Thompson were duly elected as trustees in their place: And whereas in accordance with the said. trust the residue of the said moneys was expended partly in the completion of the said building as a school house and partly towards the purchase of a piece of land originally intended and for some time used as a playground in connection with the said school house, which said piece of land is now comprised in certificate of title, dated the fourteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and_ seventy, registered as volume one hundred and ten, folio one hundred and thirty-four: And whereas inasmuch as the residue of the said moneys was insufficient to pay the whole of the purchase money for the said last mentioned piece of land, the balance of such purchase money was raised on mortgage of the said land, which mortgage was subse- quently. paid off partly by subscriptions collected by the said Robert Chadwick personally, and partly by moneys supplied by him and his co-trustees out of their own private moneys: And whereas for many ycars the said school house and playground were used as a denominational school for the parish of Saint Andrew, but such school, although at first of great benefit to the