The Emerald Hill Town Hall Act 1876

WHEREAS by a Deed Poll bearing date the thirteenth day of January One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two under the hand of Sir Henry Barkly Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath and Governor of the Colony of Victoria with the seal of the said colony affixed Her Majesty in order to provide a site for a Mechanic's Institute for the instruction use and convenience of the inhabitants for the time being of the Municipal District of Emerald Hill did grant unto the Honorable Robert Stirling Anderson the Honorable James Service the Reverend Donald Macdonald Harold Rayson Alfred Hughes John Watson and George Doran and to their heirs and assigns all that piece or parcel of land in the said Deed mentioned and in the first schedule to this Act annexed particularly mentioned and described together with all the rights members' privileges and appurtenances whatsoever to the same belonging or in anywise appertaining subject nevertheless to certain reservations therein specified to have and to hold the said premises unto the said Robert Stirling Anderson James Service Donald Macdonald Harold Rayson Alfred Hughes John Watson and George Doran their heirs and assigns subject to certain conditions provisoes and declarations in the said Deed mentioned and amongst others that the said land thereby granted and the buildings for the time being thereon should be at all times thereafter maintained and used as and for a Mechanic's Institute and out-offices for the instruction use and convenience of the inhabitants for the time being of the Municipal District of Emerald Hill and other persons resorting thereto under and in accordance with such regulations as should from time to time be made by the said persons and for no other purpose whatsoever:

AND ALSO that if the said Robert Stirling Anderson James Service Donald Macdonald Harold Rayson Alfred Hughes John Watson and George Doran or the survivors or survivor of them or other the trustees or trustee for the time being of the said premises should permit or suffer the same or any part thereof to be used for or applied to any other than the purpose aforesaid or should alienate or attempt to alienate in fee simple or for any less estate or interest the said premises or any part thereof save and except under or in pursuance of some law thereafter to be in force within the said colony it should be lawful for Her Majesty in manner in the said Deed mentioned to re-enter upon the said land or any part thereof and to hold possess and enjoy the same as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as if the said grant had not been made: