Newcastle and Northumberland Benevolent Society Dissolution Act 1955 (NSW)

NEWCASTLE AND NORTHUMBERLAND BENEVO- LENT SOCIETY DISSOLUTION ACT.

An Act to provide for the dissolution of the Newcastle and Northumberland Benevolent Society; to vest the assets of the said Society in trustees for sale and realisation ; to define the powers, authorities, duties and functions of such trustees; to provide for the disposition of the proceeds of sale and realisation; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to, 29th November,

1955.]

W HEREAS the Neweastle and Northumberland Benevolent Society (hereinafter referred to as the "Society'') is an unincorporated association having for its objects the relief of the wants of the poor, distressed, and aged and the establishment and maintenance of an asylum for the aged and destitute of both sexes, a temporary home for homeless and friendless children, cottage homes for aged couples and a lying-in hospital: AND WHEREAS by the rules of the said Society it is provided that every annual subscriber of half a guinea or upwards should be a member of the Society so long as his or her subscription is continued: AND WHEREAS by a Deed of Conveyance dated the fourteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, made between Emma Hidwards and Moses Edwards of the one part and Messrs. William Arnott, John Harris and James Cole Ellis of the other part the lands described in the Schedule to this Act were vested in the said William Arnott, John Harris and James Cole Ellis as trustees for the Societv: AND WHEREAS the said trustees are all long since deceased and no new trustees have been appointed in their place: AND WHEREAS there are now no financial members

of the Society which has ceased active operations: AND WHEREAS

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Newcastle and Northumberland Benevolent Society Dissolution Act.