Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated ActsSchedule 1 Preamble to Charitable Uses Act 1601
(see s 104)
Whereas lands, tenements, rents, annuities, profits, hereditaments, goods, chattels, money and stocks money have been heretofore given, limited, appointed and assigned, as well by the Queen's most excellent Majesty and her most noble progenitors, as by sundry other well disposed persons, some for relief of aged, impotent and poor people, some for maintenance of sick and maimed soldiers and mariners, schools of learning, free schools and scholars in universities, some for repair of bridges, ports, havens, causeways, churches, sea banks and highways, some for education and proferment of orphans, some for or towards relief, stock or maintenance for houses of correction, some for marriages of poor maids, some for support, aid and help of young tradesmen, handicraftsmen, and decayed persons, and others for relief or redemption of prisoners or captives and for aid or ease of any poor inhabitants concerning payment of fifteens, setting out of soldiers and other taxes; which lands, tenements, rents, annuities, profits, hereditaments, goods, chattels, money and stocks of money nevertheless have not been employed according to the charitable intent of the givers and founders thereof by reason of the frauds, breaches of trusts and negligence in those that should pay, deliver and employ the same.