Consolidated Revenue Fund Act 1875 No 1a (NSW)

ANNO TRICESIMO OCTAVO

VICTORIE R E G I N E .

No. V.

An Act to apply cer tain Sums out of the Con- solidated Revenue F u n d of New South Wales towards the Services of the Year 1875. [30th January, 1875.]

WH E R E A S we Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects the Members of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales	in Parliament assembled have resolved to grant to Your Majesty the
sum of Four hundred and twenty-nine thousand and ninety-one pounds that is to say—

The sum of Three hundred and sixty-nine thousand and ninety- one pounds being the sum required to defray the expenses of the various Departments and Services of the Colony from first January to twenty-eighth February one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five and

The sum of Sixty thousand pounds to enable the Treasurer to make Advances to Public Officers and on account of other Governments and to pay expenses of an unforeseen nature which will afterwards be submitted for Parliamentary appro­ priation—the whole amount to be adjusted not later than thirty-first December one thousand eight hundred and seventy- six

And whereas we desire to make good out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of New South Wales the sums so granted to Her Majesty Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and

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with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows :—

1. Out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of New South Wales there shall and may be issued and applied for or towards making good the supplies so resolved to be granted to Her Majesty for the said several services the sum of Four hundred and twenty-nine thousand and ninety-one pounds of which the sum of Three hundred and sixty- nine thousand and ninety-one pounds is to be expended at the rates which have been sanctioned for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four subject to the rate of any reduction that may here­ after be made in the expenditure of the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five and Sixty thousand pounds to be advanced to the Treasurer to enable him to make Advances to Public Officers and on account of other Governments and to pay expenses of an unforeseen nature to be afterwards submitted for Parliamentary appro- priation the whole amount to be adjusted not later than the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.

2. The Treasurer shall issue and pay the said sum for the services aforesaid in such manner and in such proportions as the Governor by Warrants or Orders in writing under his hand and directed to the said Treasurer shall from time to time order and direct And the payments so to be made shall be charged upon and payable out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Colony.

3. The Treasurer shall in his accounts from time to time be allowed credit for all sums of money paid by him in pursuance of such Warrants or Orders And the receipts of the respective persons to whom the same shall be so paid shall be full and valid discharges to the said Treasurer in passing his said accounts for such sums as shall be therein mentioned and he shall receive credit for the same accordingly.