VICTORIA. 
ANNO QUADRAGESIMO OCTAVO. 
VICTORI.5: 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. [12/// November, 1884. 
"TTT^IIKRKAS in the year One thousand eight hundred and fifty seven a Preamble 
V\ certain Society was fonned and is now carried on called aiid known 
as “ The /.oological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria” having for its 
objects the colieciioti and niainlenance of zoological specimens forexliibitioti 
or otherwise the introduction acclimatisation liberation and domestication 
of innoxious animals and vegetables and other kindred purposes and the 
Society is .siip]K»rled partly bv grants of money fnnn the Crown an<! 
]>arlly by voluntary Kubscnptions from the members of tlu* said Society: 
And whereas by deed poll or grant from the Croun dated the sixth day of 
November A.I). One thousand eight hundred and scvenly-stx Her Majesty 
granted tinto Thcodotns John Sumner. I'erdinand von Mueller, .lohn Pinney 
Hear. Tlunnas Black, Koben Brough Smyth, Clement Hodgkinson. David 
Moore, Uobert Kamsay, I'rederick Race Godfrey, ADicrl Purchus, Alexander 
Kennedy Smith, William Henry Archer, William Wilkinson Waidcll. Alex¬ 
ander .John Skene, James Service, and their heirs All that piece of land in 
llie colony of Victoria p<articulariy dcscril>ed in the Pirst Schedule to this Pirati 
Act togeiher with all the rights member.s privileges and appurtenances Schedule 
whatsoever to the .same lielonging or in anywise appertaining witli certain 
re.servations to Her Majesty her heirs and successors l(» hold the said land 
and premises unto the .‘•aid trustees and to their heirs subject to the provi¬ 
sions conditions ami declaiations thereinafter nientione(l nainclv that the 
saitl land ami the buildings for the tune being thereon slunild lie at all limes 
thercailer maintained and used as and for a place for zoological and acclim¬ 
atisation purposes and offices and conveniences connected therewith under 
and in accordance with such regulation as should from time to time be made 
for the management thereof ami for the adniis.sion of the public on pavmcnt 
of a reasonable cliarge or fee to any part or parts tliercuf. Pnivided also that 
if tlie trustee.s 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 pun>ose 
titan as aforesaid or should alienate or allow to be alienated in fee-simple or 
for any leas estate or intcrcvSt 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 successors to re-enter upon the said land or any part thereof and to hold 
posse.ssion and enjoy the same as fully and effectually to all intciils and 
i)UH)Ose.s 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 thivS Act was and is permanently rc- 
serv'ed under the provisions of''77«! unto and to the use of 
the said Zoological and Acclimatisation Society for the purposes herein¬ 
before set forth. And whereas the .said Society Tias expended considerable 
sums of money in improving the said lands and in furthering and promoting 
