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Daviesi, V. Fleming, Esquire, W. Kermode, Esquire, R. 

 Dry, Esquire, and J. H. Wedge, to hold the property sub- 

 sicribed in trust for the sicheme until the College was in- 

 corporated ("Courier," 15/7/46), and had also nominated 

 the Rev. J. R. Buckland and Messrs. W. L. Crowther and 

 W. P. Kay as a building committee for the Hutchins 

 School. 



On the 15tli March, 1847, at a meeting of the College 

 Trustees, a proposal from tlie Building Committee of tiie 

 School was taken into consideration, and the following 

 resolution joassed : — "That the Archdeacon he requested 

 "to write to Sir William Denison that the College 

 ^"Trustees have acceded to the proposal of the Hutchins 

 "School Building Committee, and that they will guarantee 

 'the expenditure of £2,000 on the Hutchins School with- 

 "out delay, provided the site is granted to the Cbliege in 

 "trust for the Hutchins School." 



The Colonial Secretary wrote to the College 

 Trustees on the 7th July, 1847, as follows: — "The Lieu- 

 "tenant-Governor is desirous of granting to you the lot of 

 "land, at the corner of Macquarie and Barrack streets, 

 "marked off as a site for the Hutchins School, in order 

 "that you may at once commence to erect that building, 

 "and it will be necessary that a Gruarantee should be 

 "given by you that the land shall be made use of for the 

 "jourposes intended. 



"The Sui-veyor-General has also been desired to put 

 "himself in communication with the Rev. J. P. Gell, who 

 "h understood to be your representative, and empowered 

 "by you to make the requisite arrangements with that 

 "officer." 



Such required Guarantee was given, the text being : 

 • — "We, the undersigned, being Trustees of Christ's Col- 

 "lege, engage to His Excellency the Lieutenant-Govenior we 

 "will appropriate the site usually known as the old Go'V- 

 'ernment Garden, in Macquarie- street, to the use of the 

 'Master and Students of the Hutchins School, and will 

 'not let any portion of the land on lease, or alienate it, 

 "and that the building shall be commenced immediately, 

 'and, further, that in the event of the said College being 

 'incorporated by Charter, we will convey the property to 

 'that Corporation upon the aforesaid trusts." 



The Governor required that the Trustees of the Col- 

 lege would undertake toi expend at least ,£2,000 on build- 

 ings before he would make the Grant, and this the 

 Trustees undertook to do by signing a Declaration of 

 Trust containing such an Undertaking contemporaneously 

 with the issuing of the Grant (vide Trust Deed dated 16th 

 December, 1847). 



