Consolidated Revenue Fund Act 1878 No 1a (NSW)

ANNO QUADRAGESIMO PRIMO

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

No. IX.

An Act to apply certain Sums out of the

Consolidated Revenue Fund of New South Wales towards the Services of the Year

1878. [31st January, 1878.]

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 one thousand five hundred and thirty- nine pounds that is to say—

The sum of Three hundred and twenty-four thousand five hundred and thirty-nine 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-eight and

The sum of Seventy-seven thousand pounds for services of the

year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight 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 B e it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and

A with

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 Pour hundred and one thousand five hundred

and thirty-nine pounds of which the sum of Three hundred and twenty- four thousand five hundred and thirty-nine pounds is to be expended at the rates which have been sanctioned for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven subject to the rate of any reduction that may hereafter be made in the expenditure of the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight and Seventy-seven thousand pounds
for the services specified in the Schedule hereto annexed.

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
bo therein mentioned and he shall receive credit for the same

accordingly.

S C H E D U L E .

To MEET W A G E S to become due to Railway Employes during the
month of February 1878 and to cover the expenditure in January

in excess of the monthly allowance at the rate of last year's

appropriation ... " ... £40 ,000 0 0

To M E E T "WAGES to become due to Employes in the Department of

Harbours and Rivers during the month of February 1878. . . ... 7,000 0 0

The sum of Thirty 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 appropriation—the whole amount
to be adjusted not later than thirty-first December one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-nine ... ... ... ... ... 30,000 0 0

TOTAL £77 ,000 0 0

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