1Church of England Belfast Lands Act 1855

Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary Documentsi Version No. 001 Church of England Belfast Lands Act 1855 Act No. 18/1855 Version as at 26 February 2003 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Section Page

1. Power to trustees to sell portion of Church of England lands and to apply proceeds of such sale in erecting a church and school house 2
2. Receipts of trustees to be sufficient discharge to purchaser 3

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1. General Information 5
2. Table of Amendments 6
3. Explanatory Details 7

Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary Documents1 Version No. 001 Church of England Belfast Lands Act 1855 Act No. 18/1855 Version as at 26 February 2003 An Act to enable the Trustees for the time being of certain portions of the Belfast Church of England Lands in the colony of Victoria to sell certain portions of the said lands 1 . Preamble WHEREAS by an indenture bearing date the first day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty made between James Atkinson therein described of the first part George Kenyon Holden therein also described of the second part and William Rutledge Andrew Wilson Hume Robert Henry Woodward and Charles Mills therein also described trustees of an intended church and minister's dwelling-house at Belfast aforesaid appointed under and by virtue of an Act of the Governor and Legislative Council of New South Wales passed in the eighth year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth intituled "An Act to regulate the temporal affairs of Churches and Chapels in the United Church of England and Ireland in New South Wales" of the third part all that piece or parcel of land in the said indenture and in the schedule hereunto particularly mentioned and described with the appurtenances thereunto belonging were (inter alia) released or otherwise assured unto and to the use of the said William Rutledge Andrew Wilson Hume Robert Henry Woodward and Charles Mills their heirs and assigns for ever, upon trust for the erection thereon of a church or chapel for the performance of divine worship according to the rites of the United Church of England and Ireland as by law established, and upon trust for all and every or any other of the

Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary DocumentsAct No. 18/1855 Church of England Belfast Lands Act 1855 2 purposes provided for in and by the said Act, and under and subject to the enactments clauses and provisions thereof: AND WHEREAS the said William Rutledge and Andrew Wilson Hume having ceased to be trustees under the said indenture the said Robert Henry Woodward and Charles Mills are now the sole trustees for the purposes aforesaid: AND WHEREAS the said trustees have incurred a debt amounting to the sum of Three hundred and three pounds two shillings and seven pence in erecting the present church and school-house upon the said land: AND WHEREAS the situation of the said land is found ineligible as a site for a church, and it is considered expedient to sell the same, and to apply the proceeds arising from the sale thereof in building a church and school and school-house on other land in the said township conveyed by the said James Atkinson to the said Robert Henry Woodward Charles Mills and Richard Colles John Bland and Horace Flower and for such other purposes in connexion therewith as the said trustees may deem expedient: BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor in Victoria by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof as follows: