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SEAT OF GOVERNMENT ACCEPTANCE ACT 1922 - SECT 3
Ratification of amending Agreement
The amending Agreement, which is set out in the Schedule to this Act, is
hereby approved, ratified and confirmed.
SEAT OF GOVERNMENT ACCEPTANCE ACT 1922
The Schedule
AGREEMENT made the second day of September One thousand nine hundred and
twenty between the COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA (hereinafter called the
"Commonwealth") of the one part and the STATE OF NEW SOUTH WALES (hereinafter
called the "State") of the other part Whereas by an agreement dated the
eighteenth day of October One thousand nine hundred and nine made between the
parties hereto it was agreed ( inter alia ) that certain lands described in
clause five thereof should be granted by the State to the Commonwealth so far
as the same were not already vested in the Commonwealth without payment
therefor and it was agreed that the said agreement now in recital should not
in any way be binding unless and until it was approved by the Parliaments of
the
Commonwealth and of the State and WHEREAS the Act of the Commonwealth
No. 23 of 1909 intituled the " Seat of Government Acceptance Act , 1909"
and the Act of the State No. 14 of 1909 intituled the " Seat of
Government Surrender Act , 1909" respectively ratified and confirmed the said
agreement And Whereas by proclamation under the hand of His Excellency the
Right Honourable Frederic John Napier Baron Chelmsford Knight Commander of the
Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George Governor of the State
and its dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia and published in the
Government Gazette of the State of the fifteenth day of December One thousand
nine hundred and nine it was proclaimed that the said " Seat of Government
Surrender Act , 1909" should come into force on and from Wednesday the
fifteenth day of December One thousand nine hundred and nine And Whereas by
proclamation under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Frederic
John Napier Baron Chelmsford Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order
of St. Michael and St. George Administrator of the Government of the
Commonwealth of Australia and published in the Commonwealth of Australia
Gazette of the twentieth day of January One thousand nine hundred and ten
Saturday the twenty-second day of January One thousand nine hundred and ten
was fixed as the day upon which the " Seat of Government Acceptance Act, 1909
" should commence And Whereas certain errors and misdescriptions have been
found in the descriptions of the lands described in clause Five aforesaid Now
it is hereby agreed as follows:
1. Clause 5 of the said agreement of the
eighteenth day of October One thousand nine hundred and nine shall be deleted
and the following clause substituted therefor:
"The State shall grant to the
Commonwealth (so far as the same are not already vested in the Commonwealth)
without payment therefor areas of land at Sussex Haven and at and near Jervis
Bay described in the Schedule hereto."
2. The legislation to be passed by the
State shall repeal the Third Schedule of the Act of the State No. 14 of
1909 above mentioned and the Schedule hereto shall be substituted therefor.
3. Nothing in this agreement shall be taken to derogate from the surrender of
territory effected by the agreement between the parties hereto dated the
twenty-third day of September One thousand nine hundred and thirteen as
ratified and confirmed by the " Seat of Government Surrender Act, 1915 ,
No. 9" of the State and the " Jervis Bay Territory Acceptance Act, 1915 ,
No. 19" of the Commonwealth.
4. This agreement shall not in any way be
binding unless and until it is approved by the Parliaments of the Commonwealth
and of the State and legislation is passed by such Parliaments respectively
ratifying and confirming it.
THE SCHEDULE
Eastern Division Land District of
Nowra County of St. Vincent Parish of Bherwerre area about two square miles
commencing on the high-water mark of Jervis Bay at the south-western corner of
Portion thirty of Forty acres and bounded thence on the east by a line bearing
south eighty chains on the south by a line bearing west one hundred and
ninety-seven chains on the west by a line bearing north to the aforesaid
high-water mark and on all other sides by that high-water mark bearing
generally easterly to the point of commencement.
Eastern Division Land
District of Nowra County of St. Vincent Parish of Bherwerre containing an area
of One hundred and thirty-two acres. The Crown Lands within Bowen Island
situated in the South Pacific Ocean at the mouth of Jervis Bay northerly of
Governor Head shown on plan catalogued Ms 1276 Sy in the Department of Lands,
Sydney.
Eastern Division Land District of Nowra County of St. Vincent Parish
of Bherwerre area Four hundred and twelve acres. The Crown Lands within the
following boundaries: Commencing on the high-water mark of Jervis Bay at the
north-eastern corner of Portion twenty-one of Forty acres and bounded thence
on the west by the eastern boundary of that portion bearing south no degrees
thirty-one minutes west ten chains forty-five links on the north by part of
the southern boundary of that portion bearing north eighty-nine degrees
twenty-one minutes west thirteen chains seventy-four links again on the west
by a road one chain wide dividing it from Portion twenty of Forty acres
bearing south no degrees thirty-six minutes west twenty-one chains twenty-six
links again on the north by that road dividing it from Portion 20 bearing
north eighty-nine degrees fifteen minutes west five chains sixty links again
on the west by that road dividing it from Portion 30 of Forty acres bearing
south no degrees forty-two minutes west twenty chains six links thence by a
line south thirteen chains ninety-two links on the south-west by a line
bearing south sixty-nine degrees twelve minutes east eighteen chains
twenty-five links again on the west by a line a road one chain wide dividing
it from Portion 31 of Two acres and another line in all bearing south no
degrees twenty-five minutes west nine chains ninety-seven links again on the
south-west by a line and a road one chain wide dividing it from Portion 33 of
Ten acres in all bearing south twenty degrees east twenty-nine chains thirteen
links on the south by a line bearing east twenty-one chains twenty-eight links
to the high-water mark of the South Pacific Ocean and thence by that
high-water mark and the high-water mark of Jervis Bay aforesaid bearing
generally northerly and westerly to the point of commencement shown on Plan
catalogued Ms 1392 Sy in the Department of Lands
Sydney.
Eastern Division Land District of Milton County of St. Vincent Parish
of Farnham area One hundred and three acres. The Crown Lands within the
following boundaries: Commencing on the high-water mark of the South Pacific
Ocean at a point south twenty-one chains thirty-eight links from a point west
ten chains from Farnham Trigonometrical Station and bounded thence on the west
by a line north thirty chains fifty-five links on the north by a line east
twenty-eight chains seven links to the high-water mark of Sussex Haven thence
by the high-water mark of Sussex Haven and the South Pacific Ocean generally
southerly and westerly to the point of commencement shown on Plan catalogued
Ms 1399 Sy in the Department of Lands Sydney.
Eastern Division Land District
of Nowra County of St. Vincent Parish of Beecroft area One thousand six
hundred and fifty acres. The Crown Lands within the following boundaries:
Commencing at a point at a wharf on the high-water mark of Jervis Bay being
the intersection of that high-water mark with the production north-westerly of
a south-western side of the surveyed road shown on plan catalogued Ms 1395 Sy
in the Department of Lands Sydney to Point Perpendicular Lighthouse thence by
that production and that south-western side of that surveyed road bearing one
hundred and fifty-two degrees fifty-three minutes three hundred and sixteen
links thence by western south-western and southern sides of that road being
lines bearing one hundred and seventy-three degrees forty-three minutes four
hundred and eighteen decimal two links one hundred and ninety degrees
fifty-five minutes three hundred and sixty decimal nine links one hundred and
eighty-three degrees forty-nine minutes two thousand and five decimal seven
links one hundred and twenty-four degrees thirty minutes seven hundred and
fifty-four decimal six links one hundred and thirteen degrees five minutes one
thousand two hundred and one links one hundred and eighteen degrees thirty
minutes nine hundred and seventy-nine decimal seven links and eighty-six
degrees fifteen minutes three hundred and seventy-three decimal five links
thence by lines bearing one hundred and seventy-nine degrees four minutes five
thousand three hundred and sixty decimal five links one hundred and
twenty-eight degrees thirty-nine minutes nine thousand one hundred and
fourteen decimal seven links and one hundred degrees six minutes five thousand
one hundred and fifty decimal six links to a post which bears two hundred and
eighty degrees six minutes and is distant three hundred and fifty-nine decimal
eight links from a post marked é over A over ninety-eight and shown on
plan Ms 1395 Sy aforesaid and thence by lines bearing forty-nine degrees
thirty-nine minutes ten thousand and twenty-nine decimal six links twenty
degrees seventeen minutes eight thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine decimal
three links three hundred and twenty-six degrees thirty minutes six thousand
five hundred and two decimal five links and ninety-nine degrees thirty minutes
two thousand eight hundred and ten links to a point on the high-water mark of
the South Pacific Ocean bearing two hundred and seventy-nine degrees thirty
minutes from the northern extremity of the Drum and Drumsticks Islands thence
generally southerly easterly southerly and south-westerly by part of that
high-water mark to its intersection at Point Perpendicular with the eastern
boundary of Portion 5 of Ten acres Parish of Beecroft thence northerly
westerly and southerly by the eastern northern and western boundaries
respectively of that Portion to a point on the high-water mark of Jervis Bay
and thence generally northerly north-westerly southerly westerly and northerly
by part of that high-water mark to the commencing point shown on plan
catalogued Ms 5228 Sy in the Department of Lands Sydney. The bearings quoted
in this last description are according to the true meridian.
SIGNED by the
GOVERNOR of the STATE OF NEW SOUTH WALES with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council thereof for and on behalf of that State AND SEALED with the
Public Seal of that State on the second day of September One thousand nine
hundred and twenty.
(Sealed)
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(Signed)
W. E. DAVIDSON,
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Governor of New South Wales.
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By Command:
SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of
the COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council thereof for and on behalf of the Commonwealth AND SEALED with the Seal
of the Commonwealth on the twentieth day of October One thousand nine hundred
and twenty.
(Sealed)
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(Signed)
FORSTER,
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Governor-General
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By Command:
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