Consolidated Revenue Fund (No 2) Act 1877 No 3a (NSW)

No. XVII.

An Act to apply certain Sums out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of New South Wales towards the Services of the Year 1877. [1st March, 1877.]

W H 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 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 the first to the twenty-eighth February one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven 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 :—

ture of the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.

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 service of the month of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven the sum of Two hundred and forty-two thousand five hundred pounds 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 expendi­

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.