New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ORANGE SHOW GROUND ACT 1897 - NOTES

Preamble

WHEREAS by deed-poll or grant from the Crown, bearing date the twenty-sixth day of June, in the fifty-ninth year of the reign of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, and registered volume one thousand one hundred and eighty-two, folio ninety-six, under the hand of His Excellency the Honorable Sir Frederick Matthew Darley, Knight, then Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of New South Wales, all that piece or parcel of land in the said Colony, containing by admeasurement twelve acres three roods thirty-five perches, be the same more or less, situated in the county of Bathurst, parish of Orange, town of Orange, section forty-seven: Commencing at a point where the southern side of Moulder-street meets the western side of Pieslie-street; and bounded thence on the north by Moulder-street aforesaid bearing west ten chains to Lord’s-place; on the west by Lord’s-place bearing south twelve chains ninety-seven links to Endsleigh-street; on the south by Endsleigh-street aforesaid bearing east ten chains to Pieslie-street aforesaid; and on the east by Pieslie-street aforesaid bearing north twelve chains ninety-seven links to the point of commencement, was thereby granted unto Andrew Taylor Kerr, Thomas Dalton, Frederick Treweeke, Henry William Larance, and John William Smith, and their heirs and assigns for ever, subject to the reservations and provisos thereinafter mentioned, and upon and for the trusts, intents, and purposes thereinafter declared of and concerning the said land, that was to say upon trust to use the said land as a show ground for the use and general purposes of the Orange Pastoral and Agricultural Society, and for no other use, trust, or purpose whatsoever: And it was thereby declared that when and so often as the said Andrew Taylor Kerr, Thomas Dalton, Frederick Treweeke, Henry William Larance, and John William Smith, or any trustee or trustees to be appointed by virtue thereof should die, resign, cease to reside in the said Colony, or become incapable of acting in the trusts thereby created, it should be lawful for the Governor for the time being of the said Colony, with the advice of the Executive Council thereof, from time to time, by writing under his hand, to name and appoint a new trustee or trustees in the place and stead of any trustee or trustees so dying, resigning, ceasing to reside in the said Colony, or becoming incapable of acting in the said trusts, and upon every such appointment the trust property should be transferred so that the same might be vested in the trustees or trustee for the time being upon the trusts and for the intents and purposes thereinbefore created and declared of and concerning the same: And whereas the said John William Smith died on the fifteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five: And whereas His Excellency Viscount Hampden, Governor of the said Colony, with the advice of the Executive Council thereof, on the eleventh day of April last, duly named and appointed John Kenna as a new trustee in the place and stead of the said John William Smith: And whereas the said Frederick Treweeke died on or about the twentieth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, and no new trustee has been appointed in the place or stead of the said Frederick Treweeke: And whereas the said trustees have for some time since permitted the members of the said Association to have the use and enjoyment of the land as a show ground, and the Association has expended large sums of money in making and erecting fences, grand stand, sheep pavilion, pavilion, and other buildings and improvements on the said land for the purpose of carrying out the objects of the said trusts: And whereas it is desired to pay off the present liabilities of the said Association incurred in making and erecting the buildings and improvements hereinbefore mentioned or referred to, and effect further permanent improvements on the said land: And whereas it is expedient that the said trustees should have power to mortgage the said land for the purposes mentioned in the recital lastly hereinbefore contained: And whereas circumstances have arisen which render the said land unsuited to the requirements of the said Association, and it is expedient that the said trustees should have power to sell the same, and that the proceeds to arise from such sale should be applied in or towards the purchase of land in the town or vicinity of the town of Orange aforesaid, to be held for the like purposes, and in or towards effecting permanent improvements on the land so to be purchased as aforesaid, and that the said trustees should have power to mortgage the land so to be purchased as aforesaid as hereinafter provided:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

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