VICTORIA. 
axmo quauragesimo octavo. 
VICTORIA REGIN.^. 
No. DCCXCIV. 
An act to provide for the Incorporation and Government 
of the Zoolog^ical and Acclimatisation Society fd' 
Victoria and for other purposes. {i2/h Xowwher, 1884 . 
“VTy HERKAS ill the year One Uiousaiul hundred and fifty seven a I’reamblt 
V> certain Society was formed and is now carried on called and known 
as “The Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria" liaving for its 
objects the collection and maintenance ofaoologicalsjiccimcns for exhibition 
or otherwise the introduction acclimatisation liberation and dome^licati^^n 
of innoxious animals and vcRviables and other kindred pun>oscs and the 
said Society is Hnp]>ortcd partly by grants ot money irom the Crown and 
partly by voluntary .subscriptions from the members of the said Society; 
And whereas by <lced poll or grant from the Crown dated the sixth day of 
November A. I). One thousand eight hundred and acventy-six Her Maje.sly 
granted unto Theo<lotus John Sumner, Ferdinand von iMucller, John Piuney 
Bear. Thomas Black. Robert Brough Smyth, Clement Hodgkinson, David 
Moore. Robert Ramsay, Frederick Race Godfrey, Albert Purchas, Alexander 
Kennedy Smith. William Henry Archer, William Wilkinson Wardell, Alex¬ 
ander John Skene, James Service, and their heirs All that piece of land in 
the colony ofV'icloria particularly described in the First Schedule to this 
Act together with all the rights membcr.s privileges and appurtenances Sciiodalo 
whatsoever to the same belonging or in anywise apjxjrtaining with certain 
re.servalions to Her Majesty her heirs and succes-sors to hold the said land 
and premises unto the .said trusUes and to their heirs subject to the provi- 
sions cinulitions and declamtion.s thereinaflcr iiientioncd tiamclv that the 
* ill land and the buiUling.s for the i ime being thereon should be at all times 
tliereatier maintained and used as and for a place for zoological and acclim¬ 
atisation purposes and ofiiccs and conveniences connected therewith under 
and in accc»rdance with such regulation as should from time to lime be made 
for the management thereof and for the admission of the public on ]>ayment 
of a reasonable charge or fee to any part or parts llicrcof. Provided also that 
if the trustees or the .survivor or survivors of them should ])crmit the said 
lands or premises or part or parts thereof to be used for any other ]mrpose 
than as aforesaid or should alienate or allow to lie 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 ihereaflcr to be enforced 
in the said colony of Victoria it should be lawful for Her Majc.sty her heirs 
and successors to re-enter upon the said land or any part thereof’and to liold 
possession and enjoy the siimc as fully and effectually to all intents and 
i)ur])Oses as if this grant had not been made. .And wherca.s 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 re¬ 
served under the provisions of'' The Land Act ISfyO '* unto and to the use of 
tlie said Zoological and Acclimatisation Society for the purposes herein¬ 
before set forth. And whereas the said Society has cxiumdecl considerable 
sums of money in improving the said landsaiid in furthering and promoting 
