An Act to provide for constructing, maintaining, and governing a college for the training of teachers; and for purposes consequent thereon or incidental thereto.
1 Name of Act
This Act may be cited as the Teachers’ College Act 1912.
2 Construction and management of college
The Minister of Public Instruction may, on the land described in the Schedule to this Act, construct buildings as a college for the training of teachers.The possession, control, and management of the said land and buildings shall be exclusively vested in the said Minister for the purposes of the said college, and for no other purpose; and the college shall be governed by him.
Schedule
ALL that piece or parcel of land containing 1 acre 3 roods 32 perches or thereabouts, Camperdown Ward, city of Sydney, parish of Petersham, county of Cumberland: Commencing at a point bearing north 23 degrees 56 minutes west and distant 5 chains 88 1/2 links from the northernmost corner of the site for Training College, as shown on plan catalogued Ms 2,879 Sy in the Department of Lands; and bounded thence by an arc of a circle of 20 chains radius, the chord of which bears north 46 degrees 50 minutes west 5 chains 55 1/2 links, and is situated on the south-west of said arc; thence by a line bearing north 19 degrees 9 minutes east 24 6/10 links; thence by an arc of another circle of 11 chains radius, the chord of which bears north 85 degrees 9 minutes east 2 chains 54 7/10 links, and is situated on the south of the said arc; thence by lines bearing south 87 degrees 24 minutes east 3 chains 92 6/10 links south 17 degrees 6 minutes east 3 chains 15 8/10 links and south 72 degrees 54 minutes west 3 chains 57 6/10 links to the point of commencement, as shown upon a plan in the Department of Lands catalogued Ms 3,561 Sy.Being part of an area of 126 acres granted to the University of Sydney on the 18th January, 1855.