Church building amendment (1844) (WA)

7 VICTORUE. No. 16

Religious Bodies (Church Property)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

ANNO SEPTIMO

VICTORTIE REGIME

No. 16

An Act to repeal so much of an Act passed in the fourth

year of the reign of Her present Majesty Queen

Victoria, intituled An Act to promote the Building

of Churches and Chapels, and to contribute towards

the Maintenance of Ministers of Religion in Western Australia,' as authorises the issue of money from the Colonial Treasury for such purposes.

[Assented to 13th June, 1844.

HEREAS by an Act of the Legislative Council of this Colony Preamble

passed in the fourth year of the reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled An Act to promote the Building of Churches and Chapels and to contribute towards the Maintenance of Ministers of Religion in Western Australia,' it is enacted amongst other things that the Governor of this Colony, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, may issue sums of money from the Colonial Treasury in aid of the erection of churches and chapels and ministers' dwellings, and also may issue from the Colonial Treasury stipends towards the support of Ministers of Religion duly appointed to officiate in such churches or chapels ; and whereas considerable sums have been already devoted to such objects, and it is expedient to avoid incurring any increase of such expenditure for the present on account of the limited amount of the Colonial Revenue : Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western so much of the

Australia, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative • .6,,

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Council thereof, that so much of the said hereinbefore recited Act as issue of money

authorises the Governor as aforesaid to issue sums from the Colonial tretlh,",),="s	Treasury, either for the erection of churches and chapels and minis- tinnedis repealed
ters' dwellings, or for stipends towards the maintenance of ministers, ?; ..‘secc-tt..:trnea:ri?
shall be and the same is hereby repealed, except so far as the continu- necteisesaartY
ante of the same or any part of the same may still be necessary to of sums hereto- authorise the payment of any sum or sums which may have been fore promised heretofore promised for the erection of any church, and also to
authorise the continuance of the payment of such stipends as may have been heretofore given towards the support of any Ministers of Religion.

2. And be it enacted that this Act may be amended or repealed Act may be amended

by any Act to be passed during the present session.

JOHN HUTT,

GOVERNOR.