1The Hastie Bequest Act 1887

Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary Documentsi Version No. 001 The Hastie Bequest Act 1887 Act No. 948/1887 Version as at 20 September 2001 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Section Page

1. Short title 7
2. Trustees to pay £60 000 to the residuary legatees 7
3. Proportion in which the sum of £60 000 to be divided amongst the residuary legatees 7
4. The residue of the estate after payment of the sum of £60 000 to be paid to the assignees of the next of kin 9
5. Trustees may transfer securities for moneys 10
6. Commission and expenses of Act to be deducted by trustees from amounts payable under Act 10
7. Acceptance by representatives of residuary legatees of moneys authorized by Act confirmed 11
8. Trustees acting in pursuance of this Act released from all liability in respect of the estate or the trusts of the will 12 ═══════════════ ENDNOTES 13
9. General Information 13
10. Table of Amendments 14
11. Explanatory Details 15

Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary Documents1 Version No. 001 The Hastie Bequest Act 1887 Act No. 948/1887 Version as at 20 September 2001 An Act to authorize the trustees of the will of the late John Hastie Esquire to distribute the estate of the said John Hastie in accordance with an agreement between the next of kin of the testator and the several parties entitled under the will. Preamble WHEREAS John Hastie late of Corangamite in the colony of Victoria died on the eighteenth day of March One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six having by his will dated the twenty-third day of January One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six bequeathed all his property to Daniel Curdie Daniel Mackinnon John Manifold and Peter Manifold on trust to pay an annuity of Two Hundred pounds to his mother Jane Hastie (since deceased) during her life (which amount was duly paid until her death), and on trust to pay to each of his sisters Mary Hastie and Margaret Gardhouse (then Margaret Ingram and in the will called Margaret Hastie) and to his brother George Hastie who died in the testator's lifetime Fifty pounds per annum during their respective lives, and on trust to set aside two sums of One thousand pounds each to pay the annual proceeds of one of the said sums to his niece Mary Hastie for life and to pay the annual proceeds of the other of the said sums to his niece Jane Anderson (then Jane Hastie) for life, and the testator bequeathed certain other specific legacies all of which have been duly paid, and the said testator directed by the said will that after the death of the last survivor of his said relatives the said Jane Hastie his mother George Hastie his brother Mary Hastie and Margaret Gardhouse (then

Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary DocumentsAct No. 948/1887 The Hastie Bequest Act 1887 2 Margaret Hastie) his sisters and Mary Hastie and Jane Anderson (then Jane Hastie) his nieces the trustees of his said will should pay assign or make over the whole residue of his property estate and effects and the securities in which the same should have been invested as therein directed to the person or persons who should constitute or be recognised as the heads respectively for the time being of the United Church of Great Britain and Ireland in the colony of Victoria and the Moderator and Moderators for the time being of the Synod or Synods or other Supreme Ecclesiastical Court or Courts or such of the Presbyterian Church or Churches as recognise and approve of the principles of church establishment or of a connexion between the Church and State and to the University of Melbourne (all of which said bodies are hereinafter called the residuary legatees) or to any or either of them in such part shares or proportions as they the said trustees of his will or the survivor of them should in their discretion and judgment think fit: AND WHEREAS the said will was duly proved in the Supreme Court of the colony of Victoria by the said Daniel Curdie Daniel Mackinnon and John Manifold on the tenth day of May One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and by the said Peter Manifold on the seventh day of August One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven: AND WHEREAS the said John Manifold died on the third day of January One thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, and the said Daniel Curdie died on the twenty-second day of February One thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, and the said Peter Manifold died on the thirty-first day of July One thousand eight hundred and eighty- five, and the said Daniel Mackinnon as the surviving trustee under and by virtue of an express provision to that effect contained in the said will appointed Donald Mackinnon and John William Curdie as new trustees of the said will and who are Preamble