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VICTORIA. 
ANNO QUADRAGESIMO OCTAVO. 
VICTORIA IJEGINjE. 
No. DCCXCIV. 
An Act to provide for the Incorporation and Government of the 
Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria and for 
other purposes. [12th November 1884.] 
W HEREAS in the year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven a 
certain Society was formed and is now carried on called and known as Preamb * e - 
"The Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria” having for its objects 
the collection and maintenance of zoological specimens for exhibition of 
otherwise the introduction acclimatisation liberation and domestication or 
innoxious animals and vegetables and other kindred purposes and the said 
Society is supported partly by grants of money from the Crown and partly by 
voluntary subscriptions from the members of the said Society : And whereas 
by deed poll or grant from the Crown dated the sixth day of November a.d. 
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six Her Majesty granted unto 
Theodotus John Sumner, Ferdinand von Mueller, John Pinney Bear, Thomas 
Black, Robert Brough Smyth, Clement Hodgkinson, David Moore, Robert 
Ramsay, Frederick Race Godfrey, Albert Purchas, Alexander Kennedy Smith, 
\\ illiam Henry Archer, William Wilkinson Wardell, Alexander John Skene, 
James Service, and their heirs All that piece of land in the colony of Victoria 
particularly described in the First Schedule to this Act together with all the First 
rights members privileges and appurtenances whatsoever to the same belonging Schedule, 
or in anywise appertaining with certain reservations to Her Majesty her heirs 
and successors to hold the said land and premises unto the said trustees and to 
their heirs subject to the provisions conditions and declarations thereinafter 
mentioned namely that the said land and the buildings for the time being thereon 
should be at all times thereafter maintained and used as and for a place for 
zoological and acclimatisation purposes and offices and conveniences connected 
therewith under and in accordance with such regulations as should from time to 
time be made for the management thereof and for the admission of the public on 
payment of a reasonable charge or fee to any part or parts thereof Provided 
also that if the trustees or the survivor or survivors of them should permit the 
said lands or premises or part or parts thereof to be used for any other purpose 
than as aforesaid or should alienate or allow to be alienated in fee-simple or for 
any less estate or interest the said land or premises or any part or parts 
thereof except under or in pursuance of some law thereafter to be enforced in the 
said colony of Victoria it should be lawful for Her Majesty her heirs and 
