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Short title. 
Interpreta¬ 
tion clause. 
Incorpora¬ 
tion of the 
Society. 
Real and 
personal 
property to 
vest in the 
Corpora¬ 
tion. 
First and 
Second 
Schedules. 
Executive 
officers of 
the Cor¬ 
poration. 
successors to re-enter upon the said land or any part thereof and to hold 
possession and enjoy the same as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes 
as if this grant had not been made And whereas a certain piece or parcel 
of Crown land situate at Gembrook in the said colony particularly described in 
the Second Schedule to this Act was and is permanently reserved under the 
provisions of “ The Land Act 1869" unto and to the use of the said Zoological 
and Acclimatisation Society for the purposes hereinbefore set forth. And 
whereas the said Society has expended considerable sums of money in improving 
the said lands and in furthering and promoting the objects and purposes of 
the said Society And whereas for the more effectual management of the affairs 
of the said Society and the better maintenance care and control of the property 
both real and personal of the said Society it is desirable that the said Society 
should be incorporated : Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent 
Majesty and by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and 
Legislative Assembly of Victoria in this present Parliament assembled and by 
the authority of the same as follows (that is to say)— 
1. This Act may for all purposes be cited as " The Zoological and 
Acclimatisation Society Incorporation Act 18 S 4 .” 
2 . In this Act— 
The term “Corporation” means the Zoological and Acclimatisation 
Society of Victoria by this Act incorporated. 
The term "Council” means the Council for the time being of the 
Corporation. 
The term “building'' means any house outhouse stable shed cage fence 
or other building or erection of any description whatever standing or 
being or which may hereafter stand or be upon any land for the time 
being held by or vested in the corporation. 
3 . All persons who are now or may hereafter become members of the 
Society or Association of persons known as the Zoological and Acclimatisation 
Society of Victoria and hereinafter in this Act referred to as the “ said Society ” 
shall be a body politic and corporate by the name of “ The Zoological and 
Acclimatisation Society of Victoria ” and shall by that name have perpetual 
succession and shall adopt and have a common seal and shall by the same name 
sue and be sued plead and be impleaded answer and be answered unto in all 
courts and places whatsoever and shall have power to compound or to prove in 
any competent court all debts due to the Corporation and shall be capable in law 
of taking purchasing and holding all goods chattels and personal property 
whatsoever and shall also be able and capable in law of taking purchasing and 
holding for zoological and acclimatisation purposes lands tenements and 
hereditaments of all kinds whatsoever and wheresoever situate and as regards 
such lands tenements and hereditaments not included in the First and Second 
Schedules hereto shall have power and be capable in law of selling exchanging 
granting demising letting or otherwise disposing of the same or any part 
thereof. 
4 . All real and personal property chattels and effects which at the time of 
the passing of this Act are held by the said Society or by any person or persons 
in trust for the same including the land described in'the First and Second 
Schedules hereto shall be and the same are hereby transferred to and vested 
in the Corporation for the purposes of this Act but notwithstanding such 
transfer the lands described in the said schedules of this Act shall be held upon 
and subject to the same trusts limitations and restrictions as those to which the 
lands described in the First Schedule arc now subject. 
5 . The Corporation shall be governed by a Council of twelve members to 
include a President two Vice-Presidents and an Honorary Treasurer. Nine of 
the members of the said Council shall be elected by the members of the 
