1Hotham Municipal Buildings Site Act 1885

Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary Documentsi Version No. 001 Hotham Municipal Buildings Site Act 1885 Act No. 838/1885 Version as at 14 February 2000 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Section Page

1. Mayor Councillors and Burgesses of Hotham may lease lands 4
2. Powers of the Mayor Councillors and Burgesses as to land in Schedule 4
3. Mayor Councillors and Burgesses or Treasurer of Hotham may give receipts for rent 5
4. Application of rents 5
5. Lease to Her Majesty of 27th April 1882 validated and confirmed 5

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SCHEDULE 6 ═══════════════ ENDNOTES 7

1. General Information 7
2. Table of Amendments 8
3. Explanatory Details 9

Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary Documents1 Version No. 001 Hotham Municipal Buildings Site Act 1885 Act No. 838/1885 Version as at 14 February 2000 An Act to enable the Mayor Councillors and Burgesses of the Town of Hotham to demise for terms of years certain lands vested in them and to validate a lease to the Crown heretofore made by the said Mayor Councillors and Burgesses. Preamble WHEREAS by a deed-poll bearing date the third day of October One thousand eight hundred and seventy under the hand of the Right Honorable John Henry Thomas Viscount Canterbury, of the City of Canterbury in the County of Kent, and Baron Bottesford, of Bottesford in the County of Leicester, in the peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath and Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Victoria with the seal of the said colony affixed, Her Majesty, in order to provide a site for a town hall and borough offices and for a court house within the Borough of Hotham, did grant unto the Mayor Councillors and Burgesses of the said Borough of Hotham and their successors all that piece or parcel of land in the said deed mentioned together with all the rights members privileges and appurtenances whatsoever to the same belonging or in anywise appertaining, subject nevertheless to certain reservations and exceptions therein specified, to have and to hold the said land and premises unto the said Mayor Councillors and Burgesses of the said Borough of Hotham and their successors subject to certain conditions provisoes and declarations in the said deed mentioned, and amongst others that the said land thereby granted

Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary DocumentsAct No. 838/1885 Hotham Municipal Buildings Site Act 1885 2 and the buildings for the time being thereon should be at all times thereafter maintained and used as and for a town hall borough offices and court house and offices and conveniences connected therewith respectively under and in accordance with such regulations as should from time to time be made by the said Governor or other officer for the time being administering the government of the said colony with the consent of the Executive Council thereof, and in the meantime under and in accordance with such regulations or by-laws as should from time to time be lawfully made by the Council for the time being of the said Borough of Hotham and for no other purposes whatsoever; and also that the Mayor Councillors and Burgesses of the said Borough of Hotham should keep the court house or buildings then erected or thereafter to be erected on the said land at all times available for holding courts of petty sessions and magistrates' courts; and also that if the Mayor Councillors and Burgesses of the said Borough of Hotham should be dissolved or by any means become extinct and be no longer existent, or should permit or suffer the said land and premises or any part thereof to be used for or applied to any other than the purpose aforesaid or to become out of proper order and repair, or should alienate or attempt to alienate in fee simple or for any less estate or interest the said land and premises or any part thereof save and except under and in pursuance of some law thereafter to be in force within the said colony, it should be lawful for Her Majesty her heirs and successors in manner therein mentioned to re-enter upon the said land or any part thereof and to hold possess and enjoy the same as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as if the said grant had not been made: AND WHEREAS there have been erected on a portion of the said land a town hall municipal chambers and other borough offices and a court house for holding courts of petty sessions and magistrates' courts: Preamble