Consolidated Revenue Fund (No 2) Act 1879 No 2a (NSW)

No. VI.

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

1879. [28th January, 1879.]

WHEREAS 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 Nine hundred and five thousand nine hundred and ninety-three pounds that is to say—

The sum of Three hundred and five thousand pounds being the sum required to defray the expenses of the various Depart- ments and Services of the Colony from the first to the thirty- first of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy- nine And

The sum of Six hundred thousand nine hundred and ninety-

three 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 be granted to Her Majesty for the said several

services the sum of Nine hundred and five thousand nine hundred and

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

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. S C H E D U L E .

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 Eund of the Colony.

S C H E D U L E .

ADVANCE TO T R E A S U R E R —

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 to be adjusted not

later than 31st December 1880 ' £00 ,000 0 0

R A I L W A Y S —

To meet Wages to become due to Railway Employes during the
month of February 1879 and to cover the expenditure in

January in excess of the monthly allowance at the rate of last

year's appropriation and for Railway Services generally ... G0,000 0 0

H A R B O U R S AND R I V E R S —

To meet Wages to become due to Employes in the Department of

Harbours and Rivers during the month of February 1879 and

for other Services of an urgent nature ... . . . ... ... 7,000 0 0

ROADS AND B R I D G E S —

For Roads under Trustees	£48 ,600	0	0
For the construction and maintenance of Roads and Bridges generally pending the passing of

the Appropriation Act for 1879 services ... 375,393 0 0

423,993 0 0

INTERNATIONAL E X H I B I T I O N —

Towards meeting the Expenses connected with the International

Exhibition to be held in Sydney in 1879 50,000 0 0

TOTAL £000,993 0 0