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VICTORIA. 
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ANNO QUADRAGESIMO OCTAVO. 
VIC TORIA REGINA. ' 
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 Preamble 
certain Society was formed and is now carried on called and known as 
" t he Zoo ogical and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria" having for its objects 
the collection and maintenance of zoological specimens for exhibition or 
otherwise the introduction acclimatisation liberation and domestication of 
innoxious amma s and vegetables and other kindred purposes and the said 
Society is supported partly by grants of money from the Crown and partly by 
voluntary s “ b ^ n P t '°" s fr |y° ra ,. lhe „ memb '=^ of the said Societv: Am whereis 
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 lohii Pinnpv Hear 
Thomas Black Rotert Brough Smyth Clement Hodgkinson,l)avid Moore, Robert 
Ramsay, Frederick Race Godfrey, Albert Purchas, Alexander Kennedy Smith, 
William Ilenr >' -), rcb ";. ^ ': r ' arr ' ^ V ,'' kinson 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 
rights members pri.1 lege> and.appurtenances whatsoever to the same belonging 
or in anywise *ro“^ n i*« 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 thatt the1 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 an , , .* purposes and offices and conveniences connected 
therewith undcrand^accordancewith such regulations as should from time to 
time be made 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 ^art or pa^S thereof to be used for any other purpose 
than as afon**d ° rdmUrtn* e or allow to be alienated in fee-simple or for 
any less estate or interest the1 satd land or premises or any part or parts thereof 
except under or in Prance! of.some law thereafter to be enforced in the 
said colony of Victoria it should be lawful for Her Majesty her heirs and 
First 
Schedule. 
