Consolidated Revenue Fund (No 2) Act 1878 No 2a (NSW)

No. X.

An Act to apply certain Sums out of the
Consolidated Revenue Fund of New South
Wales towards the Services of the Year

1878.       [28th February, 1878.]

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 Three hundred and seventy-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 twenty-eighth February one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-eight and

The sum of Forty-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 Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty b y and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled and b y 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 Three hundred and seventy-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 b e 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 b e made in the expenditure of the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight and Forty-seven thousand pounds for the services specified in the Schedule hereto annexed.

2. The Treasurer shall issue and pay the said sum for the ser­

vices aforesaid in such manner and in such proportions as the Governor

No. X I .

b y 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 b e made shall b e charged upon and payable out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Colony.

3. The Treasurer shall in his accounts from time to time b e allowed credit for all sums of money paid b y him in pursuance of such Warrants or Orders And the receipts of the respective persons to whom the same shall b e so paid shall b e 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.

S C H E D U L E .

To MEET "WAGES to become due to Railway Employes during the month

of March 1878 and to cover the expenditure in February in excess

of the monthly allowance at the rate of last year's appropriation ... £40 ,000 0 0

To MEET W A G E S to become due to Employes in the Department of

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

TOTAL . . . . . . £ 4 7 , 0 0 0 0 0