Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated ActsPreamble
Whereas Sir James Stirling, a former Governor of this State, now deceased, is
shown in the Enrolment Numbers 1 and 83 in the Registry of Deeds as the owner
of an estate in fee simple in all that portion of land being part of Swan
Location 16 bounded by lines starting from the junction of Terrace Road and
Great Eastern Highway and extending Westerly along the Northern side of the
former to the Southernmost South-Eastern corner of Lot 71 (Land Titles Office
2 Diagram 3191); thence Northerly 2 chains and five-tenths links
along an Eastern boundary of the said lot; thence Easterly 5 chains 6 and
three-tenths links along Southern boundaries of the said lot and of Lot 72
(Land Titles Office 2 Diagram 3390) to the North-Western side of Great
Eastern Highway aforesaid; and thence South-Westerly along the latter to the
starting point of an area of 3 roods and one and six-tenths perches; and
whereas on 22 November 1848 the Bishop of Adelaide consecrated a church
then existing on the land and the land as a churchyard, verily believing that
the land had been assigned and transferred by or with the authority of Sir
James Stirling to the Colonial Church Society, whose successors are the Perth
Diocesan Trustees of the Church of England in Western Australia 3 ; and
whereas no memorial of such assignment and transfer has been placed on record
in the Registry of Deeds in Perth; and whereas the land was for many years
used as a site for a church and a burial ground, but has fallen into a state
of disrepair and neglect; and whereas a portion of the said land is required
by the Crown for the purpose of road widening; and whereas the Perth Diocesan
Trustees are desirous of having the balance of the land vested in them in
order that they may be lawfully entitled and enabled to upkeep the said lands
and preserve the monuments thereon:
[Preamble amended by No. 19 of 2010
s. 50.]
Now, therefore, be it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, by
and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative
Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by
the authority of the same, as follows: —