Christ College Act 1926 (Tas)

Christ College Act 1926

An Act to incorporate Christ College and similar institutions, and to provide a constitution for the corporate body [Royal Assent 21 December 1926]

Whereas in or about the year 1846 a college scheme under the auspices of the Church of England was inaugurated in Tasmania to afford a means of training up the youth of Tasmania in classical, mathematical, scientific, and theological learning, and 3 institutions, called Christ College, the Hutchins School, and the Launceston Church of England Grammar School, were founded to carry out the scheme: And whereas this scheme is at the present time being carried out by –

(a) Christ College, under a scheme approved by the Supreme Court of Tasmania. This institution is managed by a board known as the Council of Christ College, and its property is vested in trustees appointed by the said Court, namely, Arthur Larchin Butler, Robert McFarlane Harvey, and William Percy Hood; (b) The Hutchins School, managed by a board of management, whose property is vested in Frederick Taylor Whitington, Edward Henry Butler, Robert Snowden Hay, Edwin Herbert Webster, and William Frederick Dennis Butler, as trustees for the said school, who are duly appointed under the provisions of a trust deed dated 16th December 1847, as amended by the Hutchins School Act 1911 ; (c) The Launceston Church of England Grammar School, managed by William Martin Hardwicke Weedon, Stuart Eardley Wilmot, Alfred Lawrence Green, Ernest Granville Miller, George Edward Harrap, Robert Lewis Parker, Harry Gillett, Alfred Richard Beresford, George Campbell Hinman, Cyril Aubrey Perrin, and Harry David Hadden Cummins, as trustees for the said school, who are duly appointed under the provisions of a trust deed dated 13th August 1862, and in whom, or in some of whom, the property of this institution is vested, and which institution is now carried on under the provisions of the said trust deed as amended by the Launceston Church of England Grammar School Act 1924: And whereas by his last will and testament, dated 10th May 1882, James Denton Toosey, of Richmond Hill, near Longford, in Tasmania, Esquire, after creating a yearly rent charge of twenty-five pounds in perpetuity on his estate of Richmond Hill towards the maintenance and support or otherwise for the benefit of a clergyman of the Church of England for the parish of Cressy, devised his estate of Richmond Hill to the Bishop of Tasmania in perpetuity for the perpetual endowment of a collegiate institution for bringing up students in classical, mathematical, and theological erudition, and also for the purpose of providing clerical administration for the Church of England at Cressy, as in the said will is more particularly set forth, and he desired that such institution should, as far as might be practicable, be conducted in connection with Christ College; and the said testator, after giving a life estate therein to his son, now deceased, further devised all those 85 acres 2 roods fronting on the Cressy Road known as the Reserve, and also all those 100 acres of land fronting on the said road which he purchased from John Tongs, to the Bishop of Tasmania and his successors, upon the same trusts, and subject to the same conditions, as above set forth: And whereas Lady Franklin gave certain lands known as the Ancanthe Estate and the Franklin Endowment for such university, college, or school as the Bishop of Tasmania should approve of as calculated to promote religion and learning, with power for the said Bishop from time to time to revoke, alter, or change all or any of the trusts or purposes for the benefit of the said university, college, or school, and to substitute others in the room thereof, as is more particularly set out in an indenture of release dated 2nd November 1843, and which said lands have been under the control of the trustees of Christ College: And whereas, in accordance with the intention of the original founders, it is now proposed to form a corporate body to afford a means of training up the youth of Tasmania in classical, mathematical, scientific, and theological learning, and to make permanent provision for a stronghold of learning and a school of Christian gentlemen, and which shall comprise all the above-mentioned institutions and properties, and be constituted and managed as provided by this Act: