Consolidated Revenue Fund Act (No 2) 1898 (NSW)

ANNO SEXAGESIM0 SECUNDO

VICTORIAE REGINAE.

Act No. 29, 1898.

An Act to apply certain sums out of the Con­ solidated Revenue Fund of New South Wales towards the Services of the Year 1898-9.

[28th October, 1898.]

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 One million and thirty-eight thousand five hundred pounds, that is to say—

The sum of nine hundred and eighty-eight thousand five hundred pounds, being the sum required to defray the expenses of the various Departments and Services of the Colony during the months of October and November or following month of the financial year ending thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety mine. And

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The sum of Fifty thousand pounds for the Services 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 he granted to Her Majesty for the said several

Services, the sum of One million and thirty-eight thousand five hundred

pounds, of which the sum of nine hundred and eighty-eight thousand five hundred pounds is to he expended at the rates which have been sanctioned for the financial year ended thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, subject to the rate of any reduction that may hereafter be made in the expenditure of the year 1898-1899, and Fifty 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 be therein mentioned, and he shall receive credit for the same accordingly.

SCHEDULE.

SERVICES OF T H E YEAR 1898 1899)

TREASURER'S ADVANCE ACCOUNT—

To enable the Treasurer to make Advances to Public Officers, and on account of other Governments, and to pay expenses of an un­ foreseen nature which will afterwards be submitted for Parlia­

mentary appropriation—the whole amount to be adjusted not

later than the 30th June, 1900 50,000 0 0

TOTAL £50,000 0 0

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