Consolidated Revenue Fund (Municipal Grant) Act of 1897 (NSW)

Act No. 46, 1897.

An Act to appropriate and apply out of the Oon-

»• solidated Bevenue Fund of New South Wales a certain Sum to make good supplies granted for the Services of the Year 1897-8. [10th December, 1897.]

WH E R E A S we Tour Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects in Parliament assembled, have granted to Your Majesty the sum of the Members of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales

Thirty-two thousand and five hundred pounds, for the Services set forth in the Schedule hereto annexed: And whereas we desire to make good out of the Consolidated Revenue Eund 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 :—

payable out of the Consolidated Revenue Eund of the Colony.

1. Out of the Consolidated Revenue Eund of New South Wales there shall be further appropriated and is hereby appropriated and shall be issued and applied for or towards the uses and purposes here- after expressed, the sum of Thirty-two thousand and five hundred 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

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.

4. This Act may be cited as the " Consolidated Revenue Fund

(Municipal Grant) Bill of 1897."

SCHEDULE.

SERVICES OF THE YEAR 1897-1898.

No. I I I . — C H I E F ISECBETA-RI'—

(Special Grant to Country and Suburban Municipalities, equal to two shillings and sixpence per pound of the total amount of the general rates collected during the period from the fourth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, to the second day of August, one thousand eight hundred

and ninety-seven ... ... ... ... ... ... £32,503 0 0