Consolidated Revenue Fund Act 1877 No 1a (NSW)

ANNO Q U A D R A G E S I M O

V I C T O R I A E R E G I N A E .

No. XV.

An Act to apply certain Sums out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of New South Wales towards the Services of the Year 1877. [29th January, 1877.]

A The

WHEREAS we Your Majesty's most dutiful arid 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 Six hundred and forty-nine thousand four hundred and ninety-two pounds that is to say—

The sum of Two hundred and forty-two thousand five hundred pounds being the sum required to defray the expenses of the various Departments and Services of the Colony from first to thirty-first January one thousand eight hundred and seventy- seven.

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 unforseen 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-eight And

The sum of Three hundred and forty-six thousand nine hundred and ninety-two pounds for services of the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven as set forth in the schedule hereto annexed

And whereas we desire to make good out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of New South Wales the sum so granted to Her Majesty Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and 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 supply so resolved to be granted to Her Majesty for the said several services the sum of Six hundred and forty-nine thousand four hundred and ninety-two pounds of which the sum of Two hundred and forty-two thousand five hundred pounds is to be expended at the rates which have been sanctioned for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six subject to the rate of any reduction that may hereafter be made in the expenditure of the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven Three hundred and forty-six thousand nine hundred and ninety-two pounds for the services specified in the Schedule hereto annexed 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 unforseen nature to be afterwards submitted for Parliamentary appropriation the whole amount of such advance to be adjusted not later than the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.

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. SCHEDULE.

SERTICES OF 1877.

For Roads under Trustees	£46,020 0 0
For the Construction and Maintenance of Roads and Bridges generally pending the passing of the General Appropriation Act for 1877 Services . . . . . .	300,972 0 0 £346,992 0 0

No. XVI .