VICTORIA. 
ANNO QUADRAGESIMO OCTAVO. 
VICTORIA REGINA. 
No. DCCXCIV. 
An act to provide for the Incorporation and Government 
of the Zoolog*ical and Acclimatisation Society’ of 
Victoria and for other purposes. \\2/h 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 “Tlie Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria” having for its 
objects the colieciion and maintenance of zoological sjiecinictis forcxliibitioii 
or otherwise the introduction acclimatisation liberation and domestication 
of innoxiou^i animalH and vegetables and other kindred purposes and the 
fijiid Society is >up]M)rled jKirtlv bv gnints o! money Irum the Crown and 
partly by voluntary subscriptions froin the niemhers of the said Societ}'; 
And whereas by deed poll or grant from the Crown dated the sixth day of 
Kovemher A.lJ. ( )nc tlunisand eight hundred and sevenly^six Her Majesty 
granted unto The»xlotUN John Sumner, I'crdtiiaiul von Mueller. John I’inney 
Hear, Thomas IlUick, Robert Rrmigh Smyth, Clement Hodgkiiison. David 
Moore, Robert Ramsay, Frederick Race Godfrey, Albert Purclias, Alex.indcr 
Kennedy Smith, William Henry Archer, William Wilkinson Wardell. Alex¬ 
ander Jolin Skene, Janies Service, and their heirs All that piece of land in 
the colony of Victoria particularly dcscrilied in the I’irst Schedule to this 
Act together with all the rights members privileges and appurtenances 
wliatsocver to the same belonging or in anywise apiKTtaining with certain 
reserv.ations to Her Majesty her heirs and successors to liold the saitl land 
and jircniises unto the said trustees And to their heirs subject to the provi¬ 
sions conditions and declarations thereinafter mentioned naniclv lhal the 
>ai<l land and the buildings for tlie time being thereon siionld be at all times 
therealler maintained ana used as .and for a place for zoological and acclim¬ 
atisation purposes and oflice.s and conveniences connected therewith under 
and ill accordance with such regulation as should from time to time be made 
for the management thereof and for the admission of the pulilic on p-nyment 
of a reasonalile charge or fee to any part or parts thereof. Provided aNo that 
if the trustees or the survivor or .survivors of them should j»erniit the .said 
lands or premises or i>art or parts thereof to be used for any other purpose 
than as aforesaid or should alienate or allow to lx* alienated in fee-simple or 
for any less estate or interest the said laiul or jiremiscs or anv part or mrts 
thereof exceiit under or in pursuance of some law thereafter *io he enforced 
in the said colony of Victoria it should be hawfiil for Her Maje.sty her tieins 
ami successors to re-enter upon the .said land or any fmrt thcreof'aml to hold 
po.s.sc.ssion and enjoy the same as fully and efTectually to all intents ami 
purpose.s as if this grant had not been niade. And whereas a certain piece 
or parcel of Crown land situate at Gembrook in the said colony particularly 
dc.scribed in the Second Schedule to this Act was and is pefmancutlv re- 
.served under the provi.sion.s of''77/r iMtid Act unto and to the use of 
the .said Zoological and Acclimatisation Society for tlie purposes herein- 
1 )efore set forth. And whereas the said Society'has expendetl considerable 
sums of money in improving the said laudsand in furthering and promoting 
Preamble. 
First 
ScheJulor 
