AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
Law Reform (Repeal of Laws) Act 1997
No. 42 of 1997
An Act to repeal certain laws
[Notified in ACT Gazette S264: 19 September 1997]
The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as
follows:
Short title
1. This Act may be cited as the Law Reform (Repeal of Laws)
Act 1997.
Commencement
2. This Act commences on the day on which it is notified in the
Gazette.
Repeal of Acts
3. The Acts specified in Schedule 1 are repealed.
Repeal of applied NSW laws
4. The laws specified in Schedule 2, being Acts of the Parliament of
New South Wales which apply in the Territory by force of
subsection 34 (4) of the Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government)
Act 1988 of the Commonwealth, in their application in the Territory, are
repealed.
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Law Reform (Repeal of Laws)
No. 42, 1997
Repeal of applied Imperial laws—amendment of Imperial Acts
Application Act 1986
5. (1) Section 4 of the Imperial Acts Application Act 1986 is amended
by inserting after subsection (1) the following subsection:
“(1A) The applied Imperial Act (1285) 13 Edw. 1 c. 22, the applied
Imperial Act (1575) 18 Eliz. 1 c. 5 and section 6 of the applied Imperial Act
(1623) 21 Jas. 1 c.16 cease, by virtue of this subsection, to be in force in the
Territory.”.
(2) Schedule 2 to the Imperial Acts Application Act 1986 is amended
by omitting the following items:
“ (1285) 13 Edw. 1 c. 22
Waste by tenant in common
Part 1”;
Common informers
Part 8”.
and
“ (1575) 18 Eliz. 1 c. 5
(3) Schedule 3 to the Imperial Acts Application Act 1986 is amended—
(a) by omitting Parts 1 and 8;
(b) by omitting from the heading to Part 9 “SECTIONS 5 AND 6”
and substituting “SECTION 5”; and
(c) by omitting from Part 9—
(i) section 6; and
(ii) note 3.
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Law Reform (Repeal of Laws)
No. 42, 1997
SCHEDULE 1
Section 3
REPEAL OF ACTS
Amendments Incorporation Act 1939
Amendments Incorporation Act 1960
Amendments Incorporation (Amendment) Act 1980
Business Franchise (“X” Videos) (Amendment) Act 1993
SCHEDULE 2
Section 4
REPEAL OF APPLIED NSW LAWS
Aberdare Collieries Railway (1901)
Agricultural Society of New South Wales Incorporation (1869) (33 Vic)
Albert Dangar’s Leasing (1873) (36 Vic)
Albert Dangar’s Leasing Act Amendment (1877) (41 Vic)
Albury Cattle Sale-yards (1887) (51 Vic)
Albury Gas Company Limited (1883) (46 Vic)
Albury Mechanics Institute Enabling (1891) (55 Vic)
An Act for the purpose of enabling the Trustees of the Albury Racecourse to grant
leases thereof to any Club; and to enable the Members of the Club to sue and be sued in
the name of the Chairman of the Committee for the time being of the Club; and for
other purposes. (1892) (55 Vic)
All Saints Parsonage (1875) (38 Vic)
An Act for facilitating proceedings by and against the Alliance Marine Fire and Life
Assurance Company. (1839) (3 Vic)
Anvil Creek Coal Mining Company’s Incorporation (1874) (37 Vic)
Archibald Thompson’s Trust Estate (1880) (43 Vic)
Armidale Cattle Sale-yards (1906)
Armidale Gas Company’s Incorporation (1884) (48 Vic)
An Act to enable the Venerable Samuel John Austin Sheehy and Thomas Cooper
Makinson Trustees of certain land in the City of Armidale and the Very Reverend John
Thomas Lynch Trustee of certain other land in the said City respectively to sell the said
respective lands and to provide for the application of the proceeds thereof. (1881)
(45 Vic)
Armstrong’s Settlement (1886) (50 Vic)
Ashfield Church of England School (1886) (50 Vic)
An Act to enable the Australasia Coal Company Limited to construct a Railway from
certain Collieries near Newcastle to and to connect the same with the Great Northern
Railway. (1875) (39 Vic)
Australasian Coal Mining Company (1853) (17 Vic)
Australasian Mineral Oil Company (1866) (29 Vic)
An Act to incorporate the Proprietors of a certain Company called “The Australasian
Steam Navigation Company” and for other purposes therein mentioned. (1851) (15 Vic)
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SCHEDULE—continued
An Act to enable the Australasian Steam Navigation Company to trade in coal. (1881)
(44 Vic)
Australasian Sugar Company (1842) (6 Vic)
An Act to enable the Australian Agricultural Company to sue and be sued in the Colony
by their corporate name. (1866) (29 Vic)
An Act for lighting with Gas the Town of Sydney in the Colony of New South Wales
and to enable certain persons associated under the name style and firm “The Australian
Gas-light Company” to sue and be sued in the name of the Secretary for the time being
of the said Company and for other purposes therein mentioned. (1837) (8 Wm IV)
An Act to amend An Act intituled An Act for lighting with Gas the Town of Sydney in
the Colony of New South Wales and to enable certain persons associated under the
name style and firm “The Australian Gas-light Company” to sue and be sued in the
name of the Secretary for the time being of the said Company and for other purposes
therein mentioned. (1839) (3 Vic)
An Act to amend An Act intituled An Act for lighting with Gas the Town of Sydney in
the Colony of New South Wales and to enable certain persons associated under the
name style and firm “The Australian Gas-light Company” to sue and be sued in the
name of the Secretary for the time being of the said Company and for other purposes
therein mentioned and for the better enabling the said Company to purchase hold and
dispose of real and personal Property. (1849) (13 Vic)
An Act to enable the Australian Gas-light Company to extend their works to places
beyond the boundaries and limits of the City of Sydney and to increase the Capital
Stock. (1858) (22 Vic)
Australian Gas Light Company (1883) (46 Vic)
Australian General Assurance Company (1845) (9 Vic)
Australian General Assurance Company (1857) (20 Vic)
Australian General Assurance Company’s Incorporation (1866) (29 Vic)
Australian Jockey Club (1873) (37 Vic)
Australian Joint Stock Bank (1853) (17 Vic)
An Act to amend the Australian Joint Stock Bank (1855) (19 Vic)
Australian Joint Stock Bank Amendment (1874) (37 Vic)
Australian Joint Stock Bank Amending (1886) (50 Vic)
Australian Library and Literary Institution (1853) (17 Vic)
Australian Library and Literary Institution Act Amendment of 1866 (29 Vic)
An Act to enable the proprietors of a certain joint stock company carried on in the town
of Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, under the name, style, or firm of The
Australian Marine Assurance Company, to sue and be sued in the name of the chairman
of the said company for the time being, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
(1832) (3 Wm IV)
An Act to Incorporate the Australian Mutual Provident Society (1857) (20 Vic)
An Act to amend the Act to Incorporate the Australian Mutual Provident Society (1874)
(37 Vic)
Australian Mutual Provident Society’s Acts Amendment (1888) (51 Vic)
Australian Mutual Provident Society’s Acts Amendment (1903)
Australian Mutual Provident Society’s (1910)
Australian Mutual Provident Society’s Officers’ Provident Fund Trustees (1890)
(54 Vic)
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SCHEDULE—continued
Australian Paper Company (1865) (28 Vic)
Australian Subscription Library (1834) (5 Wm IV)
Australian Subscription Library (1840) (4 Vic)
Australian Subscription Library (1853) (17 Vic)
An Act to enlarge the powers of the Australian Trust Company and to remove doubts as
to the validity of Deeds executed by Agents of the Company. (1857) (20 Vic)
Balaclava Tramway (1892) (55 Vic)
Balmain Cemetery (1881) (45 Vic)
Balmain Steam Ferry Company (1853) (17 Vic)
Balmain Tramway (1886) (50 Vic)
Bank of Australia (1833) (4 Wm IV)
An Act to incorporate the Proprietors of a certain Banking Company called “The Bank
of New South Wales” and for other purposes therein mentioned. (1850) (14 Vic)
An Act to amend an Act intituled An Act to incorporate the Proprietors of a certain
Banking Company called “The Bank of New South Wales” and for other purposes
therein mentioned. (1852) (16 Vic)
An Act to amend an Act intituled An Act to incorporate the Proprietors of a certain
Banking Company called “The Bank of New South Wales” and for other purposes
therein mentioned. (1854) (18 Vic)
An Act to amend an Act intituled An Act to incorporate the Proprietors of a certain
Banking Company called “The Bank of New South Wales” and for other purposes
therein mentioned. (1864) (27 Vic)
Bank of New South Wales (1870) (33 Vic)
Bank of New South Wales (1886) (49 Vic)
Bank of New South Wales (1905)
Bank of New South Wales (1910)
Bank of Port Phillip (1840) (4 Vic)
Bassett-Darley Estates (1877) (40 Vic)
Bates’ Estate (1881) (45 Vic)
Bathurst and Grafton and Armidale Bishoprics (1877) (41 Vic)
An Act to enable the Proprietors of a certain Banking Company carried on in the town
of Bathurst, in the Colony of New South Wales, under the name, style, and firm, of The
Bathurst Bank, to sue and be sued in the name of the President of the said company, for
the time being, and for other purposes therein mentioned. (1839) (3 Vic)
Bathurst Cathedral Validating (1906)
Bathurst Cattle Sale-yards (1873) (37 Vic)
Bathurst Cattle Sale-yards (1889) (53 Vic)
Bathurst Copper Mining Company (1853) (17 Vic)
Bathurst Gas (1872) (36 Vic)
An Act to authorize the sale of the site of the Bathurst Hospital and to provide for the
expenditure of the money received therefrom in the erection of suitable buildings for a
like purpose on a new site. (1876) (39 Vic)
Bathurst Market (1864) (27 Vic)
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An Act to enable the trustees of the Bathurst School of Arts and Mechanics’ Institute to
surrender a certain piece or parcel of land in William-street in the town of Bathurst
some time since granted as a site for the erection of a building for the use of the said
School of Arts and Mechanics’ Institute and to accept a grant of other land in lieu
thereof. (1858) (22 Vic)
Bega Cattle Sale-yards (1895) (59 Vic)
Bell’s Estate (1886) (50 Vic)
An Act to enable the members of a certain Society in the Colony of New South Wales
denominated the Benevolent Society to sue and be sued in the name of the Treasurer for
the time being and for other purposes therein mentioned. (1832) (3 Wm IV)
Bennett’s Railway (1886) (50 Vic)
Berrima Coal-mine Railway (1881) (44 Vic)
Bible Society’s (1878) (41 Vic)
Bird Estate (1886) (50 Vic)
Bishop Tyrrell Trust (1910)
An Act to transfer to the Bishop of Goulburn certain Lands situate within the Diocese
of Goulburn and to extend the Acts in which the Bishop of Australia is mentioned to the
Bishop of Goulburn. (1866) (30 Vic)
An Act to enable the Bishop of Sydney and his Successors to make Leases of certain
Land granted by Her Majesty for the maintenance of the Bishop of Australia and his
Successors. (1855) (19 Vic)
Bishopscourt Sale and Leasing (1886) (50 Vic)
An Act to charge the Bishopthorpe Estate with the payment of certain sums of money to
the present Bishop of Sydney and his representatives. (1874) (37 Vic)
Blake and Mehan’s Marriage (1853) (17 Vic)
Blayney Municipal Council Enabling (1890) (54 Vic)
Board’s Settlement (1886) (49 Vic)
An Act to enable the Reverend Henry Hodgkinson Bobart of Parramatta in the county
of Cumberland clerk and Elizabeth Mary his wife (late Elizabeth Mary Marsden
spinster) and the survivor of them and their trustees to grant leases of land situate on the
Molong River in the county of Wellington. (1846) (10 Vic)
Bodalla Estate (1886) (49 Vic)
Boorowa Roman Catholic Church Land Sale (1884) (48 Vic)
Borough of Balmain Wharves (1887) (51 Vic)
Borough of Cudgegong Cattle Sale-yards (1897)
Borough of Lithgow Validating (1898)
Borough of Newcastle Electric Lighting (1892) (55 Vic)
Borough of Newcastle Leasing and Improving (1881) (45 Vic)
Borough of Redfern Electric Lighting (1895) (59 Vic)
Borough of Willoughby Naming (1890) (54 Vic)
Boroughs of Randwick and Paddington (1884) (47 Vic)
Botany Railway Co. (1862) (26 Vic)
Bowenfels Coal-mining and Copper Smelting Company’s Railway (1873) (36 Vic)
Bowenfels Coal-mining and Copper Smelting Company (Limited) Railway (Sale and
Vesting) (1886) (50 Vic)
Bright’s Estate Leasing (1899)
Brodie’s Enabling (1900)
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Brodie’s Enabling Act Amendment (1903)
Broken Hill Abattoirs, Markets, and Cattle Sale-yards (1900)
Broken Hill and District Water Supply Company (1889) (53 Vic)
Broken Hill and Suburban Gas Company (Limited) (1888) (52 Vic)
Broken Hill Water Supply (1890) (54 Vic)
Broken Hill and District Water Supply Act Amendment (1892) (55 Vic)
Bryen’s Estate Leasing (1884) (48 Vic)
Bulli Coal-mining Company (1862) (25 Vic)
Bulli Coal Mining Company’s Railway (1862) (26 Vic)
An Act to authorize the continuation of a Tramroad from Burwood to the Wharf at
Newcastle. (1850) (14 Vic)
An Act to further extend the time for completing a Tramroad from Burwood to the
Wharf at Newcastle. (1853) (17 Vic)
An Act to Incorporate Camden College (1876) (39 Vic)
An Act to abolish a certain back lane leading from Elizabeth-street to Phillip-street near
the Circular Quay in the city of Sydney and a portion of another back lane leading
southerly thereout and all rights of way connected therewith and to vest the fee-simple
thereof in Robert Campbell Esquire and to create and dedicate to the public in lieu
thereof and in exchange therefor a new lane or street from Elizabeth-street to Phillipstreet and to divest all right or title in or to the said last-mentioned lane or street from
the said Robert Campbell. (1866) (30 Vic)
An Act to enable the Trustees and Executors under the Will of the late Robert Campbell
Esquire of Bligh-street in the city of Sydney and of Hopewell near the said City to
purchase the title and interest of Mrs. Margaret Campbell widow of the said deceased to
and in certain lands and premises in Bligh-street and to pay the price thereof out of the
Testator’s residuary assets or to grant an annuity for the same and to sell or lease the
same and to lease certain other lands and for other purposes. (1852) (16 Vic)
An Act to enable the Bishop of Sydney to convey certain land and premises known as
the Camperdown Cemetery to Trustees upon certain trusts with power to erect a Church
and Parsonage on portions of the said land. (1871) (34 Vic)
Capertee Tramway (1896) (60 Vic)
Capertee Tramway (1899)
Carangara Copper Mining Company (1854) (18 Vic)
Cardiff Coal Company Incorporation (1863) (27 Vic)
Casino School of Arts Enabling (1891) (55 Vic)
Casino School of Arts Enabling Act Amendment (1910)
Cataract and Nepean Bridges (1851) (15 Vic)
Cataract and Nepean Bridges (1852) (16 Vic)
Cataract Coal Mine Railway (1867) (31 Vic)
Chapman’s Estate Leasing (1881) (44 Vic)
An Act to enable the Very Reverend Samuel John Austin Sheehy the Reverend Michael
John Dwyer John James Curran John Williamson and Patrick Mulcahy as trustees of
certain land on the Old Cook’s River Road in the parish of Petersham to sell the said
land and to provide for the application of the proceeds thereof. (1879) (42 Vic)
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An Act to enable the Trustees of Christ Church and the Parsonage adjoining in the City
of Sydney to dispose of and convey either by way of absolute sale or by exchange or to
demise or lease the site of such Parsonage and to purchase or erect another Parsonage in
a more convenient situation in the said parish and for other purposes therein mentioned.
(1852) (16 Vic)
Christian Chapel Land Sale (1888) (51 Vic)
Church of England Clergy Provident Fund (Sydney) (1908)
Church of England Property (1889) (52 Vic)
Church of England Property Act of 1889 Amendment (1892) (56 Vic)
Church of England Trust Property Incorporation (1881) (44 Vic)
Churches of Christ Property Management (1906)
City Bank (1864) (27 Vic)
City Bank Act Extension (1884) (48 Vic)
City Bank Act Extension (1905)
City Bank of Sydney (1893) (56 Vic)
City Bank of Sydney (1910)
An Act to incorporate the City of Goulburn Gas and Coke Company (Limited) and to
enable the said City of Goulburn Gas and Coke Company (Limited) to construct
Gas-works within the municipal boundaries and suburbs of the City of Goulburn.
(1879) (42 Vic)
City of Goulburn Gas and Coke Company’s Amendment (1887) (51 Vic)
An Act to incorporate the proprietors of a certain Company called “The Clarence and
New England Steam Navigation Company” and for other purposes therein mentioned.
(1866) (29 Vic)
Clarence and New England Steam Navigation Company’s Act Amendment (1878)
(41 Vic)
Clarence and Richmond Rivers Steam Navigation Company’s (1861) (24 Vic)
Clarence and Richmond Rivers Steam Navigation Company’s Act Amendment (1867)
(31 Vic)
Clergy Widows and Orphans Fund (Sydney Diocese) Trustees (1897)
Clift’s Coal Properties Leasing (1869) (32 Vic)
Cohen’s Enabling (1879) (42 Vic)
Cohen’s Estate (1873) (36 Vic)
An Act to amend Cohen’s Estate Act (1874) (37 Vic)
Cohen’s Estate (1884) (47 Vic)
An Act to enable the Colonial Sugar Refining Company to sue and to be sued in the
name of such Company and to vest the property of the Company in the Trustees for the
time being of such a Company. (1863) (27 Vic)
An Act to enable the proprietors of a certain Banking Establishment or Company,
carried on in the Town of Sydney, in the colony of New South Wales, under the name,
style, and firm of The Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, to sue and be sued in
the name of the Managing Director of the said Bank, or Company, for the time being,
and for other purposes therein mentioned. (1835) (6 Wm IV)
An Act to amend an Act to enable The Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, to
sue and be sued in the name of the Managing Director for the time being of the said
Company, and for other purposes therein mentioned. (1846) (10 Vic)
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An Act to incorporate the Proprietors of a certain Banking Company called “The
Commercial Banking Company of Sydney” and for other purposes therein mentioned.
(1848) (11 Vic)
An Act to amend an Act intituled An Act to incorporate the Proprietors of a certain
Banking Company called “The Commercial Banking Company of Sydney” and for
other purposes therein mentioned. (1852) (16 Vic)
An Act to amend an Act intituled An Act to incorporate the Proprietors of a certain
Banking Company called “The Commercial Banking Company of Sydney” and for
other purposes therein mentioned. (1854) (18 Vic)
An Act to amend an Act intituled An Act to incorporate the Proprietors of a certain
Banking Company called “The Commercial Banking Company of Sydney” and for
other purposes therein mentioned. (1863) (27 Vic)
An Act to amend an Act intituled An Act to incorporate the Proprietors of a certain
Banking Company called “The Commercial Banking Company of Sydney” and for
other purposes therein mentioned. (1866) (30 Vic)
An Act to continue for a further term of twenty-one years the provisions of the
Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Incorporation Act (as amended) whereby the
Commercial Banking Company of Sydney as thereby incorporated was empowered to
make issue circulate and re-issue Bank Notes or Bills. (1878) (42 Vic)
Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Incorporation Act Amendment (1867)
(31 Vic)
Commercial Building and Investment Company’s Sales (1889) (53 Vic)
Commonwealth Portland Cement Company Railway (1902)
Congregational Union Incorporation (1882) (46 Vic)
Cooerwull Academy Loan (1900)
Cookbundoon Slate Quarry Tramway (1881) (45 Vic)
Cook’s River Bridge (1854) (18 Vic)
Cooma Church of England Lands Sale (1888) (52 Vic)
An Act to authorize and empower Robert Dawson the surviving Trustee of certain
Church of England lands at Cooma and to authorize and empower the said Robert
Dawson and James Litchfield David Ryrie and John Edward Pretty Walker the Trustees
of certain lands dedicated by the Crown for a site for a Church of England Parsonage at
Cooma aforesaid to sell the said respective lands and to provide for the application of
the proceeds thereof. (1886) (50 Vic)
An Act to enable the Most Reverend Roger Bede Vaughan the Very Reverend Edward
O’Brien Alexander Montague Patrick Jeremiah Joseph Clifford and David O’Rourke
Trustees of allotments one two three and four of section six in the town of Cooma as
sites for a Roman Catholic Church Minister’s Residence and School-house to sell the
said allotments and to provide for the appropriation of the proceeds thereof. (1876)
(39 Vic)
Co-operative Colliery Tramway (1897)
Cootamundry Roman Catholic Church Land Sale (1884) (48 Vic)
Coraki Roman Catholic Church Trustees Enabling (1904)
Cox’s Marriage Settlement (1864) (27 Vic)
Crisp’s Enabling (1887) (50 Vic)
Crookwell Roman Catholic Church Land Sale (1887) (51 Vic)
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An Act to enable the Council of the Borough of Cudgegong to erect a Town Hall and
Municipal Council Chambers and Offices on a parcel of land situate in Market and
Douro Streets in the Town of Mudgee and to borrow moneys for the purpose of erecting
and completing the said buildings and for other purposes therein mentioned. (1882)
(46 Vic)
Deepwater and Mount Galena Tramway (1892) (55 Vic)
Deniliquin and Moama Railway (1874) (37 Vic)
Denton’s Estate Leasing and Mortgaging (1881) (45 Vic)
Dillon’s Estate (1884) (48 Vic)
Diocese of Goulburn Church Land Sale (1905)
Dubbo Cattle Sale-yards (1884) (47 Vic)
Dubbo Gas Company’s Incorporation (1884) (48 Vic)
Dubbo Pastoral, Agricultural, and Horticultural Association (1900)
An Act to enable the Trustees of certain lands situate in Macquarie-street Dubbo in the
Colony of New South Wales to sell the said lands and to provide for the appropriation
of the proceeds thereof. (1875) (38 Vic)
Engineering Association Incorporation (1884) (48 Vic)
Ennis Estate (1886) (50 Vic)
An Act to enable the European Assurance Society to sue and be sued in the name of
such Society. (1863) (27 Vic)
An Act to legalize the exchange of a portion of the allotment of the Scots Church
Sydney. (1866) (30 Vic)
Fisher Trusts Declaratory (1899)
Fitzgerald’s Enabling (1876) (39 Vic)
An Act to establish and incorporate a Company to be called the Fitz Roy Iron and Coal
Mining Company. (1854) (18 Vic)
Fitz Roy Ironworks Company (1865) (29 Vic)
Forest Lodge, near Tarlo Estate (1884) (48 Vic)
An Act to enable the Trustees for the time being of the will of Samuel Foster late of
Birmingham gentleman deceased to grant leases of land in the Colony of New South
Wales. (1842) (6 Vic)
General Steam Navigation Company (1840) (4 Vic)
George Hill’s Estate (1894) (58 Vic)
Gibson’s Estate (1862) (26 Vic)
Glebe Borough (1878) (42 Vic)
Glen Innes Markets Leasing (1886) (50 Vic)
Goulburn Cathedral Validation (1894) (58 Vic)
Goulburn Cattle Sale-yards (1875) (38 Vic)
An Act to authorize the sale of the site of the Goulburn Hospital and to provide for the
expenditure of the money received therefrom in the erection of suitable buildings for a
like purpose on a new site. (1884) (48 Vic)
Goulburn Meat Preserving Company’s Incorporation (1870) (34 Vic)
Goulburn Roman Catholic Church Land Sale (1903)
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An Act to enable Robert Waugh William Chatfield Philip Dignam and Charles
Hamilton Walsh surviving Trustees of the Goulburn School to dispose of by sale and to
convey the said Goulburn School land and premises and to apply the net proceeds of
such sale ratably amongst the contributors to the Goulburn School Fund their
representatives or assigns. (1870) (33 Vic)
Goulburn Water Supply Charges of 1890 (54 Vic)
Goulburn Water Supply Charges of 1893 (56 Vic)
Grafton Lighting Company Limited (1884) (48 Vic)
Grafton Presbyterian Land Sale (1881) (45 Vic)
An Act to enable the trustees of the Grafton School of Arts to mortgage certain lands
situated in the city of Grafton, and for the declaring the trusts of the moneys raised by
such mortgage. (1889) (52 Vic)
Great Cobar Copper-mine Railway (1899)
Great Cobar Copper Mining Company Tramway (1884) (47 Vic)
Great Northern Coal Company’s Railway (1908)
Great Nugget Vein Gold Mining Company of Australia (1852) (16 Vic)
An Act to incorporate the Greta Coal and Shale Mining Company. (1874) (37 Vic)
Gunnedah School of Arts Enabling (1893) (56 Vic)
Hamilton’s Trust (1858) (22 Vic)
Hanson’s Trust (1876) (39 Vic)
An Act to enable John Bell Metcalfe and William Teale the Trustees under a certain
Indenture of Settlement dated the third of January one thousand eight hundred and
forty-eight made between Harriot Betts of the one part and Michael Metcalfe and
Charles Lowe of the other part to sell certain lands at the Glebe near the City of Sydney
and to invest the money to arise from such a sale upon the Trusts of the said settlement.
(1855) (19 Vic)
Hartley Kerosene Oil and Paraffine Company (1866) (30 Vic)
An Act to enable James Brown Alexander Brown and Stephen Foyle to construct a
Railway from certain Collieries near Newcastle to and to connect the same with the
Great Northern Railway. (1867) (31 Vic)
Hawkesbury Benevolent Society (1860) (23 Vic)
Hawkesbury Racecourse (1890) (54 Vic)
An Act to enable the trustees of the Hay Athenaeum to mortgage certain lands and
buildings situated in the town of Hay, and for the declaring the trusts of the moneys
raised by such mortgage. (1893) (56 Vic)
Hay Gas (1886) (50 Vic)
An Act to enable Edward Joseph Rubie and Thomas O’Connor the Trustees of the will
of the late Michael Heley and the duly appointed committee of Albina Heley an insane
patient and also the Trustees of a certain indenture of settlement dated the twenty-sixth
day of April one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five to sell certain lands and
hereditaments in the Schedules A and B hereto described and to provide for the
application of the proceeds of such sale and for other purposes therein mentioned.
(1883) (46 Vic)
High-street, Alstonville, Closing (1906)
Hillgrove and Armidale Water-power Electric (1893) (56 Vic)
Hill’s Estate (1881) (45 Vic)
Holt-Sutherland Estate (1900)
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Holt’s Wingello Estate (1895) (59 Vic)
Hosking’s Trust (1861) (24 Vic)
An Act to incorporate the Proprietors of a certain Company called the “Hunter River
New Steam Navigation Company” and for other purposes therein mentioned. (1852)
(16 Vic)
Hunter River Railway Company (1853) (17 Vic)
Hunter-street, Newcastle, Extension of 1888 (1889) (52 Vic)
An Act for facilitating proceedings by and against the Hunter’s River Steam Navigation
Company and for other purposes therein mentioned. (1841) (5 Vic)
Hutchinson Estate (1884) (47 Vic)
Illawarra Harbour and Land Corporation (1890) (54 Vic)
Illawarra Harbour and Land Corporation Act Amendment (1895) (59 Vic)
Illawarra Harbour and Land Corporation Act Further Amendment (1899)
Illawarra Steam Navigation Company (1858) (22 Vic)
Illawarra Steam Navigation Company’s Act Amendment (1887) (50 Vic)
Inverell Church of England Land Sale (1886) (50 Vic)
An Act to enable Angus Fletcher William Wilberforce Fraser Charles Campbell Colin
Ross Peter McGregor and William Cameron to sell suburban allotment six of section
one in the town of Inverell in the Colony of New South Wales held by them as trustees
of the Free Church of Eastern Australia and to provide for the appropriation of the
proceeds thereof. (1878) (41 Vic)
Isler’s Estate (1873) (36 Vic)
Jenneret’s Tramway (1881) (45 Vic)
Jewish Synagogue and Schools (1872) (36 Vic)
Joadja Creek Railway of 1880 (43 Vic)
Joadja Creek Railway Transfer (1890) (54 Vic)
Katoomba Lighting (1890) (54 Vic)
Kent-street Roman Catholic Land Sale (1887) (51 Vic)
An Act to incorporate the Proprietors of a certain Company called the “Kiama Steam
Navigation Company” and for other purposes herein mentioned. (1853) (17 Vic)
Kiama Tramway (1883) (46 Vic)
An Act to amend the “Kiama Tramway Act of 1883” (1888) (52 Vic)
Kiama Tramway Act Amendment (1888) (52 Vic)
King’s School Council (1893) (56 Vic)
Kiss’s George-street Property (1886) (50 Vic)
Kite’s Leasing (1886) (49 Vic)
Kurrajong Land and Riley-street, Surry Hills, Land Sales (1881) (44 Vic)
Land Company of Australasia (Limited) (1890) (54 Vic)
Lawson’s Estate Mortgage Enabling (1896) (60 Vic)
Lawson’s Trust (1866) (30 Vic)
Leconfield Coal-mine Railway (1889) (54 Vic)
Lee and Brady Settlement (1893) (56 Vic)
Lee’s Partition and Sale (1874) (37 Vic)
Leichhardt Council Chambers Mortgage (1888) (51 Vic)
An Act to incorporate a Society called the “Linnean Society of New South Wales”.
(1884) (47 Vic)
Lismore Markets and Cattle Sale-yards (1904)
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Lithgow Valley Colliery Railway (1873) (37 Vic)
Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company (1865) (28 Vic)
Liverpool and London Fire and Life Insurance Company (1857) (20 Vic)
Liverpool and London Fire and Life Insurance Company (1862) (26 Vic)
Lyndhurst Roman Catholic Church Land Sale (1878) (41 Vic)
Macken Estate (1910)
An Act to confer powers to sell and grant Building Leases upon the Trustees of the
Marriage Settlement of William Henry Mackenzie and Helen his wife. (1861) (24 Vic)
McQuade Estate (1894) (57 Vic)
An Act to enable the Most Reverend John Bede Polding the Very Reverend Samuel
John Austin Sheehy the Very Reverend John Rigney the Reverend Michael Joseph
Dwyer and James Mullins Esquire as Trustees of certain Lands situated in
Macquarie-street in the City of Sydney to sell the said land and to provide for the
appropriation of the proceeds thereof. (1874) (37 Vic)
An Act for enabling John Warn Tuck to light with gas the Towns of East Maitland and
West Maitland in the Colony of New South Wales. (1860) (23 Vic)
An Act to incorporate the Maitland Gas Light Company (Limited). (1874) (37 Vic)
Maitland Gaslight Act Amendment (1897)
Maitland Presbyterian Church Lands (1870) (33 Vic)
Manly Gas-light and Coke Company Limited (1884) (48 Vic)
Mariners Church (Sydney) (1856) (20 Vic)
An Act to enable the “Maryville Colliery Company (Limited)” to construct a Railway
or Tramway from land at Wickham near Newcastle to and connect the same with the
Government Railway to Bullock Island Newcastle. (1886) (50 Vic)
Melbourne Fire and Marine Assurance Company (1840) (4 Vic)
Melbourne Sydney and Adelaide Chartered Bank (1853) (17 Vic)
Menindie and Broken Hill Tramway (1893) (56 Vic)
Menindie Irrigation (1894) (57 Vic)
Mercantile Bank of Sydney (1873) (37 Vic)
An Act to enable the Right Reverend James Murray the Reverend Patrick Purcell Ryan
and Charles Joseph Gallagher Trustees of certain Land situate in the Village of Merriwa
to sell the said Land and to provide for the appropriation of the proceeds thereof. (1880)
(43 Vic)
An Act for enabling the Missionaries of the people called Methodists to sell a certain
piece of ground in Macquarie-street Sydney for the purpose of purchasing other land in
a more central situation to erect a new Chapel thereon. (1834) (5 Wm IV)
Methodist Union (1902)
Minmi and Hexham Railway (1854) (18 Vic)
Minmi and Hexham Railway Act Amendment (1861) (24 Vic)
Mrs Mann’s Trust (1857) (21 Vic)
Mittagong Coal Mining Company’s Railway (1884) (48 Vic)
Mittagong Coal Mining Company’s Railway Amendment (1887) (51 Vic)
Moffitt’s Estate Enabling (1881) (45 Vic)
Moffitt’s Estate Leasing Enabling (1884) (47 Vic)
Moore Estate (1879) (42 Vic)
Moore Estate (Amendment) (1886) (49 Vic)
Moore Estate Act Further Amendment (1902)
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An Act to enable the Bishop of Sydney to lease or sell the lands known as the
Moorebank Estate and to convey portions of the said lands to the Commissioner for
Railways and for the other purposes therein mentioned. (1886) (50 Vic)
Moorehead and Young’s Railway (1862) (26 Vic)
Moreton Bay Immigration and Land Company (1855) (19 Vic)
An Act to enable Mort’s Dock and Engineering Company (Limited) to close certain
streets through their property at Mort Bay and to establish new streets in lieu thereof.
(1884) (47 Vic)
Mort’s Dock and Engineering Company (Limited) Enabling (1891) (55 Vic)
Mort’s Dock and Engineering Company (Limited) Enabling (1898)
An Act to enable Thomas Sutcliffe Mort proprietor of the Waterview Dry Dock in the
Hamlet of Balmain near the City of Sydney in the Colony of New South Wales to
purchase land for the extension of such dock. And also to make and maintain at
Waterview Bay aforesaid in connection with such dock a certain quay or wharf fronting
to Port Jackson and to make divert alter vary and stoop up certain roadways or streets in
the vicinity of the said dock. (1855) (19 Vic)
Moruya Municipal Council Enabling (1896) (60 Vic)
Moruya Silver Mining Company (1864) (27 Vic)
Moss Vale Cattle Sale-yards (1905)
Mount Keira Tramroad (1860) (23 Vic)
Mount Kembla Coal and Oil Company’s Railway (1881) (44 Vic)
Mount Pleasant Tramroad (1862) (26 Vic)
Mrs. Payten’s Estate Leasing (1886) (50 Vic)
Mudgee Gaslight and Coke Company (Limited) (1886) (50 Vic)
Mulgoa Irrigation (1890) (54 Vic)
Municipalities of Ryde and Hunter’s Hill (1890) (54 Vic)
Muswellbrook Cattle Sale-yards (1886) (50 Vic)
Mutual Fire Insurance Association (1841) (5 Vic)
Mutual Life Association of Australasia (1873) (36 Vic)
Narandera Roman Catholic Church Trustees Enabling (1897)
Nepean Cottage Hospital (1895) (59 Vic)
Nevell’s Leasing (1876) (40 Vic)
New South Wales Co-operative Coal Mining Company (1862) (26 Vic)
New South Wales Coal and Intercolonial Steam Navigation Company (1853) (17 Vic)
New South Wales Marine Assurance Company (1851) (15 Vic)
New South Wales Shale and Oil Company (1873) (36 Vic)
Newcastle Agricultural, Horticultural, and Industrial Association (1905)
(Newcastle) Church and Perkins streets (1887) (51 Vic)
An Act to enable the Most Reverend John Bede Polding the Right Reverend Henry
Gregory Gregory and the Very Reverend John Thomas Lynch as Trustees of certain
Land situated in the City of Newcastle to sell the said Land and to provide for the
appropriation of the proceeds thereof. (1862) (26 Vic)
An Act to incorporate the “Newcastle Coal and Copper Company” and for other
purposes therein mentioned. (1853) (17 Vic)
Newcastle Co-operative Steam Tug Company (1867) (31 Vic)
Newcastle Episcopal Residence Leasing (1900)
Newcastle Glebe Leasing (1878) (41 Vic)
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Newcastle Steamship Company’s Preferential Shares (1886) (49 Vic)
Newcastle Wallsend Coal Company’s Incorporation 1859 (1860) (23 Vic)
Newcastle Wallsend Coal Company’s Railway of 1859 (1860) (23 Vic)
Newtown Omnibus Company (Limited) Incorporation (1874) (37 Vic)
North Shore Gas (1875) (39 Vic)
North Shore, Manly, and Pittwater Tramway and Railway of 1888 (1889) (52 Vic)
North Shore Steam Company (1854) (18 Vic)
North Sydney Brick and Tile Company’s Tramway (1902)
Nyngan Town Hall (Mortgage) (1897)
O’Doud’s Estate Leasing (1884) (48 Vic)
Oakey Park Coal Mining Company’s Railway (1889) (53 Vic)
Ophir Copper Mining Company (1853) (17 Vic)
Orange Cattle Sale-yards (1877) (40 Vic)
Orange Gaslight (1877) (40 Vic)
Orange Show Ground (1897)
An Act to enable the Municipal Council of Orange to sell the present and provide
another Site for a Town Hall. (1879) (42 Vic)
Osborne Wallsend Coal Company’s Incorporation (1862) (25 Vic)
An Act to enable the trustees of the will of Henry Osborne deceased to grant building
and mining leases for ninety-nine years. (1881) (45 Vic)
Oxford-street Improvement (1894) (57 Vic)
Pacific Fire and Marine Insurance Company (1862) (26 Vic)
Parnell’s Leasing (1874) (37 Vic)
Parnell’s Trust (1864) (27 Vic)
Parramatta Church School (1886) (50 Vic)
Parramatta Church-street Amended Alignment (1888) (52 Vic)
Parramatta Gas Company’s Incorporation (1872) (36 Vic)
Parramatta Market (1866) (30 Vic)
Parramatta Public Baths (1886) (50 Vic)
An Act to incorporate the Parramatta River Steam Company (1866) (29 Vic)
Parramatta Street Watering (1894) (57 Vic)
Parramatta Town Hall of 1878 (1879) (42 Vic)
Paton’s Settlement (1900)
Pennant Hills Tramroad (1854) (18 Vic)
Penrith Nepean Bridge (1850) (14 Vic)
Penrith Nepean Bridge (1854) (18 Vic)
Penrith Nepean Bridge Company (1851) (15 Vic)
Penrith Water and Gas Supply (1886) (50 Vic)
Permanent Trustee Co. (Limited) (1888) (52 Vic)
Perpetual Trustee Co. (Limited) (1888) (52 Vic)
An Act to enable Christopher Rolleston Thomas Chaplin Breillat Stephen Campbell
Brown and William Crane or other the Trustees of certain land and premises in the
parish of Petersham near Newtown to sell the same and to provide for the application of
the proceeds thereof. (1873) (36 Vic)
Pine Ridge Tramway (1892) (55 Vic)
Port Phillip Bank (1840) (4 Vic)
Presbyterian Church (1865) (28 Vic)
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Presbyterian Church Property Management (1881) (45 Vic)
Presbyterian Church Property Management Amendment (1894) (58 Vic)
An Act to enable the Trustees of certain lands granted by Her Majesty’s Government
upon trust for the erection of a Church and School-house under the superintendence of
the Synod of Australia in connection with the Established Church of Scotland to sell the
said lands and to purchase other land in a more suitable situation in lieu thereof. (1855)
(19 Vic)
Primitive Methodist Church Temporalities (1879) (42 Vic)
Prince Alfred Hospital (1873) (36 Vic)
Prince Alfred Park Enclosure (1869) (33 Vic)
Pringle’s Estate Mortgaging (1886) (50 Vic)
Pyrmont Bridge Company (1855) (19 Vic)
Pyrmont Bridge Company (1858) (22 Vic)
An Act to continue the powers of the Pyrmont Bridge Company to raise money by the
issue of Debentures and by Mortgage. (1861) (25 Vic)
Randwick Cemetery Unused Land Sale (1886) (50 Vic)
Randwick Roman Catholic Church Land Sale (1886) (50 Vic)
Randwick Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Enabling (1901)
Raymond Terrace Mechanics School of Arts Sale (1893) (56 Vic)
An Act to appoint John Alexander to be the Trustee of certain indentures of lease and
release by way of settlement bearing date respectively the second and third days of
August one thousand eight hundred and forty-two and for other purposes therein
mentioned. (1847) (11 Vic)
Redhead Coal-mine Railway (1883) (46 Vic)
Redhead Coal-mine Railway Act Extension (1888) (51 Vic)
Redhead Coal-mine Railway Act Amending (1889) (53 Vic)
Redmond’s Estate (1879) (42 Vic)
An Act to incorporate a Company to be called the Richmond Bridge Company and to
erect and maintain a Bridge over the River Hawkesbury at the Richmond Ferry in direct
continuation of the public road and to take Tolls thereat for a term of years and for other
purposes therein mentioned. (1857) (20 Vic)
An Act to amend the Richmond Bridge Company’s Act of 1857 (1862) (25 Vic)
Richmond Vale Coal-mine Railway (1900)
Roberts’ Trust (1869) (33 Vic)
An Act to enable and authorize Martha Rogers or other the Trustee or Trustees for the
time being of the will of the late George John Rogers to sell a parcel of land situate at
Craigend in the city of Sydney and to make provision for the investment of the proceeds
of the sale thereof. (1875) (38 Vic)
Rogers’ Estate (1881) (45 Vic)
An Act to enable the Trustees of a Settlement made by George John Rogers of a
messuage and lands known as Craigend situate in the city of Sydney to sell the said
messuage and lands and to make provision for the investment of the proceeds of the
sale thereof. (1865) (28 Vic)
Roman Catholic Diocese of Lismore Church Lands (1908)
Rotton’s Estate (1883) (46 Vic)
An Act for facilitating proceedings by and against The Royal Exchange Company, and
for other purposes therein mentioned. (1837) (8 Wm IV)
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An Act to incorporate a Society Called the “Royal Society of New South Wales”.
(1881) (45 Vic)
Rutland Flux Tramway (1892) (55 Vic)
An Act to authorize the Sale of St. Andrew’s Parsonage in the City of Sydney. (1871)
(34 Vic)
An Act to enable His Eminence the Most Reverend Patrick Francis Cardinal Moran,
Patrick Ryan Larkin, John Flanagan, and John Seage, or other the trustees for the time
being of certain lands situated in Castlereagh, Campbell, Elizabeth, and Hay Streets, in
the city of Sydney, to sell the said land, and to provide for the application of the
proceeds thereof. (1893) (56 Vic)
An Act to enable the Trustees of certain land in Harrington-street in the City of Sydney
granted by the Crown for the erection thereon of a Presbyterian Church to sell the said
land and apply the proceeds in or towards satisfaction of the debt existing on St.
George’s Church in Castlereagh-street Sydney aforesaid being a Presbyterian Church in
connection with the Synod of Eastern Australia. (1872) (36 Vic)
St. James’ Parsonage Land Leasing (1887) (51 Vic)
St. James’ Parsonage Lands Amending (1909)
St. James’ School Compensation Trust (1886) (50 Vic)
St. John’s Church Leasing (1884) (48 Vic)
An Act to incorporate St. John’s College as a College within the University of Sydney.
(1857) (21 Vic)
An Act to relieve the Rector and Fellows of Saint John’s College of the trusts of a
devise by will of the late John McEncroe, in regard to certain land near Jamberoo; and
to enable them to convey the said land to Trustees; and to enable such Trustees to lease
the said land, and also to sell the same and deal with the proceeds thereof. (1892)
(55 Vic)
St. John’s Parsonage (1866) (30 Vic)
An Act to enable the Most Reverend Roger Bede Vaughan the Reverend John Dalton
and the Reverend James Kennedy as Trustees of certain land situated in the Borough of
St. Leonards to sell the said land and to provide for the appropriation of the proceeds
thereof. (1880) (43 Vic)
St. Leonards School of Arts Enabling (1890) (54 Vic)
An Act to enable the Trustees of the Glebe of Saint James’ Church Sydney to convey a
portion thereof to the trustees of Saint Mark’s Church Alexandria (North) near Sydney
as a site for the erection thereon of a School and a Schoolmaster’s Residence. (1855)
(19 Vic)
St. Mary’s Waverley Church of England Land Sale (1886) (49 Vic)
An Act to enable the Most Reverend John Bede Polding the Venerable John M’Enroe
and Owen Joseph Caraher as Trustees of certain land situated in the city of Sydney to
sell the said land and to provide for the appropriation of the proceeds thereof. (1865)
(28 Vic)
An Act to incorporate Saint Paul’s College as a College within the University of
Sydney. (1854) (18 Vic)
An Act to enlarge the Council of St. Paul’s College (1857) (21 Vic)
St. Philip’s Parsonage (1858) (22 Vic)
St. Philip’s Parsonage (1884) (47 Vic)
St. Stephen’s Church of England Parsonage, Camperdown, Sale (1886) (50 Vic)
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An Act to enable the Minister and Church-wardens of Saint Thomas’ Church, Enfield,
to sell certain land in Kent-street, Sydney, devised by the will of Thomas Hyndes,
deceased. (1888) (52 Vic)
An Act to enable the Reverend Dr. Lang as sole surviving Trustee of the Scots Church
to dispose of the original allotment of the Church for certain Ecclesiastical purposes
therewith connected. (1873) (36 Vic)
Saywell’s Tramway (1884) (47 Vic)
Saywell’s Tramway Amendment (1887) (50 Vic)
Scone Cattle Sale-yards (1904)
School of Arts (Sydney) Trustees (1852) (16 Vic)
An Act to enable the Trustees of the Scots Church in Sydney in the Colony of New
South Wales to grant a mortgage to Government on the buildings now erecting on their
allotment for the amount of a loan advanced by Government to enable the said Trustees
to erect the said Church and also for the amount of a further loan advanced by
Government in aid of the establishment of the Australian College. (1832) (3 Wm IV)
Scottish Australian Mining Company (Limited) Railway (1893) (56 Vic)
Scott’s Leasing (1873) (37 Vic)
Segenhoe Estate Irrigation (1893) (56 Vic)
Serisier’s Estate (1884) (48 Vic)
Silkstone Coal-mine Railway (1889) (53 Vic)
Silkstone Coal-mine Railway (Amending) (1892) (55 Vic)
Silkstone Coal-mine Railway Act Further Amending (1894) (57 Vic)
An Act for enlarging the powers of the Trustees or Trustee for the time being of a
certain indenture of release and settlement made by Mr. Acton Sillitoe of land at
Double Bay in the parish of Alexandria in the county of Cumberland and for enlarging
and extending the trust for sale contained in the said indenture and for other purposes
therein contained. (1855) (19 Vic)
An Act to enable the trustees under a certain indenture of settlement made by Mr. Acton
Sillitoe of land at Double Bay in the parish of Alexandria in the county of Cumberland
to sell the said land and to invest the money to arise from such sale upon the trusts of
the said settlement. (1858) (22 Vic)
Silverton Tramway (1886) (50 Vic)
Silverton Tramway (Amending) (1888) (52 Vic)
Simpson’s Railway (1893) (56 Vic)
Singleton Gas (1884) (47 Vic)
An Act to enable Bridget McGuigan and Georgina Russell Trustees of certain land
situate in Charlotte-place in the city of Sydney held by them upon trust for the religious
establishment known as the Sisters of Charity to let the said land on building lease or
otherwise or to sell the said land and to provide for the application of the proceeds
thereof. (1886) (50 Vic)
Stanford Coal-mine Railway (1900)
An Act to enable the Trustees of a Settlement made by Frederick Henry Stirling and
Helen Cecilia Deas-Thompson to join with other persons in the leasing and sale of lands
subject of the said Settlement. (1884) (48 Vic)
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An Act to enable the trustees of certain Lands at the Surry Hills granted upon trust for
the erection thereon of a Church Parsonage and School-house in connection with the
Church of England to sell the said Lands and to apply the proceeds thereof in or
towards the purchase of other Lands more eligibly situated and the erection or
completion of a Church Parsonage and School-house in the same district. (1855)
(19 Vic)
Sydney Alliance Marine and Fire and Life Assurance Company (1839) (3 Vic)
Sydney and Melbourne Steam Packet Company (1854) (18 Vic)
An Act to remove doubts respecting the vesting of certain lands situated within the
Dioceses of Sydney and Newcastle respectively which were formerly vested in the
Bishop of Australia. (1858) (22 Vic)
An Act to simplify proceedings at Law or in Equity, by or against the Sydney Banking
Company, and for other purposes therein mentioned. (1840) (4 Vic)
An Act to extend the powers of the trustees of the Sydney Bethel Union in dealing with
their land and buildings in George-street, Sydney, and to enable them to sell, lease, or
mortgage the said land and buildings, and to purchase other land and erect other
buildings for the benefit of seamen visiting the Port of Sydney; to provide for the
appointment of new trustees of the Sydney Bethel Union; to provide for the vesting of
the trust property without conveyance or assignment, and to enable the trustees to
accept certain land in exchange for land which has been resumed by the Government of
New South Wales; and for other purposes therein mentioned. (1908)
An Act to enable the Trustees of the Sydney Bethel Union to sell their land and
buildings in Erskine-street Sydney and to erect a new Mariners’ Church in a more
convenient situation and for other purposes therein mentioned. (1851) (15 Vic)
An Act to enable the Trustees of the Sydney Bethel Union to surrender the Land in
Macquarie-street Sydney some time since granted as a site for a Mariners’ Church and
to accept a Grant of other Land in lieu thereof. (1856) (20 Vic)
Sydney Bishopric and Church Property (1887) (51 Vic)
Sydney Common Improvement (1866) (30 Vic)
Sydney Common Improvement Act Amendment (1868) (31 Vic)
Sydney Common Improvement Act Amendment (1877) (41 Vic)
Sydney Diocesan Revenues (1905)
An Act to incorporate the Sydney Dry Dock Company and for other purposes therein
mentioned. (1853) (17 Vic)
An Act for the incorporation of a Company called the “Sydney Exchange Company”.
(1851) (15 Vic)
An Act to amend the Act for the incorporation of a Company called the “Sydney
Exchange Company”. (1855) (19 Vic)
Sydney Gold Escort Company (1853) (17 Vic)
An Act to incorporate and partially endow the Sydney Grammar School. (1854)
(18 Vic)
Sydney Harbour Collieries (Limited) (1903)
Sydney Hospital (1881) (45 Vic)
Sydney Hydraulic Power Company’s (1888) (52 Vic)
Sydney Insurance Company (1855) (19 Vic)
Sydney Insurance Company (1860) (23 Vic)
Sydney Marine Assurance Company’s Incorporation (1866) (29 Vic)
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Sydney Meat Preserving Company Limited Incorporation (1871) (34 Vic)
Sydney Mechanics School of Arts Incorporation of 1886 (50 Vic)
Sydney Railway Company (1849) (13 Vic)
Sydney Railway Company (1854) (18 Vic)
Sydney Town Hall Act (1862) (26 Vic)
Sydney United Omnibus Company’s Incorporation (1872) (36 Vic)
Synod of Australia—Established Church of Scotland (1855) (19 Vic)
Tamworth Cattle Sale-yards (1884) (48 Vic)
Tamworth Gas and Coke Company Limited (1882) (46 Vic)
An Act to enable the Right Reverend James Murray the Reverend Michael Gough and
Daniel Regan Trustees of allotments nineteen and twenty of section fourteen in the
town of Tamworth as sites for a Roman Catholic Church and School to sell the said
allotments and to provide for the appropriation of the proceeds thereof. (1876) (39 Vic)
Tamworth Show Ground (1899)
Tarrawingee Tramway (1890) (54 Vic)
An Act to amend the “Tarrawingee Tramway Act of 1890” (1892) (55 Vic)
Tattersall’s Club (1888) (51 Vic)
Taylor and Walker’s Railway (1862) (26 Vic)
Terrace-street Closing (1899)
The Botany Railway Company (1862) (26 Vic)
The City of Newcastle Gas and Coke Company’s Incorporation (1866) (30 Vic)
The King’s School Council Act Amendment of 1894 (58 Vic)
The New Redhead Estate and Coal Company, Limited, Transfer (1905)
An Act for defining the powers of the Trustees or Trustee for the time being of the
settlement made on the marriage of the Honorable Edward Deas Thomson with Anne
Maria his wife and for giving better effect to sales and exchanges made and to be made
Pursuant thereto and for other purposes. (1849) (13 Vic)
Throsby’s Leasing (1876) (39 Vic)
Throsby’s Leasing (Amendment) (1877) (40 Vic)
Tomago Coal Mining Company’s Incorporation (1861) (25 Vic)
Toronto Tramway (1889) (53 Vic)
Toronto Tramway Act Amendment (1890) (54 Vic)
Tumut School of Arts Site Sale Bill (1890) (54 Vic)
Turon Golden Ridge Quartz Crushing Company (1852) (16 Vic)
Underwood’s Estate (1873) (36 Vic)
Underwood’s Estate (Amendment) (1874) (37 Vic)
An Act to enable the proprietors of a certain company, carried on in the town of
Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, under the name, style, and firm of The
Union Assurance Company of Sydney, to sue and be sued in the name of the chairman
of the said company for the time being, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
(1836) (7 Wm IV)
An Act to amend an Act, intituled, An Act to enable the proprietors of a certain
company, carried on in the town of Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, under
the name, style, and firm of The Union Assurance Company of Sydney, to sue and be
sued in the name of the chairman of the said company for the time being, and for other
purposes therein mentioned. (1838) (2 Vic)
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An Act for facilitating proceedings by and against a certain Banking Company called
the “Union Bank of Australia” and for other purposes therein mentioned. (1839) (3 Vic)
An Act to amend an Act for facilitating proceedings by and against a certain Banking
Company called the Union Bank of Australia and for other purposes therein mentioned.
(1847) (11 Vic)
An Act to enable the Trustees of certain land being the site for a Unitarian Church or
School on Church Hill Sydney to dispose of and convey the same and to apply the
proceeds of the sale in manner therein mentioned and for other purposes. (1870)
(33 Vic)
United Church of England and Ireland Property Management (1866) (30 Vic)
United Church of England and Ireland School at Paddington Sale (1881) (45 Vic)
An Act to incorporate the United Fire and Life Insurance Company of Sydney and for
other purposes therein mentioned. (1862) (26 Vic)
United Insurance Company (1869) (32 Vic)
Upper Hunter Pastoral and Agricultural Lease (1875) (39 Vic)
Uther Estate Leasing (1886) (50 Vic)
Vale of Clwydd Company’s Incorporation (1881) (45 Vic)
Vale of Clwydd Coal Mining Company’s (1893) (56 Vic)
Victorian Coal Mining Company’s (1884) (48 Vic)
Victorian Coal Mining Company’s Extension (1888) (51 Vic)
Wagga Wagga Bridge Company (1861) (25 Vic)
Wagga Wagga Cattle Sale-yards (1890) (54 Vic)
Wagga Wagga Gas (1881) (44 Vic)
Wagga Wagga School of Arts Enabling (1892) (56 Vic)
Wahgunyah Murray Bridge Company (1861) (24 Vic)
Walgett English Church and Parsonage Land Sale (1884) (47 Vic)
An Act to authorize the Waratah Coal Company to extend their line of Railway by the
construction of branches. (1875) (38 Vic)
An Act to establish and incorporate a Company to be called the Waratah Coal Company
and to authorize the making of a railway for the purposes of the said Company. (1863)
(27 Vic)
Warwick Farm Railway (1889) (53 Vic)
Waterview Dry Dock (1855) (19 Vic)
Waterview Patent Slip (1867) (31 Vic)
Watkins-Wallis Trust Estate (1892) (55 Vic)
An Act to enable His Eminence the Most Reverend Patrick Francis Cardinal Moran, the
Very Reverend John Felix Sheridan, the Reverend Patrick Leonard Dunne, John Bede
Barlow, and Michael Hagerty, or other the Trustees for the time being of certain lands
situate at Waverley, to sell the said lands and to provide for the application of the
proceeds thereof. (1893) (56 Vic)
Wellington Cattle Sale-yards (1904)
Wellington Show Ground (1895) (59 Vic)
Wentworth Gold Field Company (1853) (17 Vic)
An Act to incorporate Wesley College as a College within the University of Sydney
(1860) (23 Vic)
Wesley College Incorporation (1910)
Wesleyan Methodist Church Property Trust (1889) (52 Vic)
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An Act to authorize the conveyance of all lands vested in Trustees on behalf of the
Wesleyan Methodist Society by the Trustees thereof upon the trusts contained in the
Model Deed of the said Society. (1853) (17 Vic)
West Maitland Cattle Saleyards (1888) (52 Vic)
An Act to enable the Lord Bishop of Newcastle as Trustee of certain Land situated in
the Town of West Maitland to sell the said land and to provide for the appropriation of
the proceeds of such sale. (1861) (24 Vic)
West Wallsend and Monk Wearmouth Railway (1886) (50 Vic)
An Act to amend the “West Wallsend and Monk Wearmouth Railway Act of 1886”.
(1887) (51 Vic)
West Wallsend Coal Company Limited (1890) (54 Vic)
Western Kerosene Oil Company’s Incorporation (1868) (31 Vic)
An Act to incorporate the proprietors of a certain Company called the “Western Peak
Downs Copper Mining Company (Limited)” and for other purposes therein mentioned.
(1874) (37 Vic)
Weston’s Estate Mortgage Enabling (1892) (55 Vic)
Whitney Estate (1902)
Willoughby and Gordon Tramway (1887) (51 Vic)
Willoughby and Gordon Tramway Act Amending (1890) (54 Vic)
Willoughby and Gordon Tramway Acts Amending (1893) (56 Vic)
Wilson’s Estate (1861) (24 Vic)
Windsor Gas-light Company Limited (1884) (48 Vic)
Windsor Gas-light Company Limited Act Amendment (1889) (53 Vic)
Wollongong Gas-light Company Limited (1883) (46 Vic)
Wyatt Estate Leasing (1886) (50 Vic)
An Act to enable the Trustees of certain allotments in the Town of Yass granted to
Henry O’Brien and others as Trustees of the Roman Catholic Church at Yass to sell a
portion of the said land and to provide for the application of the proceeds thereof.
(1871) (34 Vic)
An Act to enable the Right Reverend William Lanigan, the Reverend Patrick Dunne,
and Morgan O’Connor, trustees of certain allotments in the town of Yass, granted to
Henry O’Brien and others, as trustees of the Roman Catholic Church at Yass, to sell the
said lands, and provide for the application of the proceeds thereof. (1887) (51 Vic)
Yass Roman Catholic Church Trustees Enabling (1900)
An Act to enable the trustees of the site of the intended school-house at Yass in
connection with the United Church of England and Ireland to sell and dispose of the
same for the purpose of purchasing other land in a more suitable situation to erect a
school-house thereon. (1849) (13 Vic)
Yongaleatha Marble, Flag, and Flux Company Limited (1891) (55 Vic)
Young Men’s Christian Association of Sydney Incorporation (1906)
Young Wallsend Coal Company’s Railway Act of 1888 (1889) (52 Vic)
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